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  • Fingernail haptics

    nosigner: ‘touch the invisibles’ installation at siggraph 09 “the vibrator is easy to attach and remove. a microcomputer controls the timing and magnitude of the vibration. the finger position is measured with the touch sensor of LCD...
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  • Collecting money from colleagues

    Lolligift, a Site For Collecting Money for Office Pools “By sending your co-workers a single link (I will totally laugh if anyone donates to Nik’s fund) they can begin sending cash. You then collect the funds via Paypal (less $5 and Paypal’s cut...
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  • Bottling light

    Light in a bottle “Similar to the motion of a charged particle stored in a magnetic bottle, i.e., a particular spatially varying magnetic field, the light oscillates back and forth along the fiber between two turning points. For this reason, this...
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  • Tracking stuff

    Tracking deliveries of all kinds is on everyone’s radar “Americans love knowing where their things are,” says Chris McGlothlin, chief information office at Domino’s. Folks constantly tell Domino’s how much they hate not knowing...
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  • Liquid wood

    Liquid Wood Is Plastic of Tomorrow, Say Scientists “Car parts and other durable items made of this bio-plastic already exist, but the chemical hadn’t been suitable for household use until now, due to the high content of sulfurous substances...
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  • Keeping stuff

    ‘Rosetta stone’ offers digital lifeline “The process starts by etching bits and bytes by laser onto silicon wafers, the ultrapure materials from which computer chips are made. Crucially, the nature of these digital markings will be determined...
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  • Online emotions

    Measuring emotion in cyberspace: Jackson’s death a sad day; Obama’s election a very happy one “The researchers analyzed the words in nearly 10 million first-person sentences that contained the word “feel”—all posted over the last four...
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  • Teams of robots

    Robotic firefighting team debuts “The display showcased a quartet of robots aimed at tackling the particular risk of fires involving cylinders of the industrial gas acetylene. The robots range from a nimble, stair-climbing reconnaissance unit to...
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  • Getting points

    Booyah Society Gives You Points For Doing Pretty Much Anything “Booyah Society gives you points for everything from going to a new restaurant to hitting the gym to buying a new pair of shoes. It’s a neat idea, I guess, but it feels too broad...
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  • Facial expressions

    iowa state university creates learning robot “iowa state university has been working on a humanoid robot that can perform procedural learning much like a child. the robot features two large manipulators for hands and a face capable of many expressions...
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  • Tracking animal health

    Better Farming Through RFID Tagging “In an effort to help dairy farmers better manage their herds, Danish technology firm, SmartFarming has developed an animal tracking and monitoring system called CowDetect. The system enables farmers to maintain...
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  • User-generated magazine

    Site Wins Fans by Letting Them Play Fashion Designer “Polyvore is a user-generated fashion magazine filled with user-generated ads. The people who go to it play fashion editor and create collages featuring pictures of clothes, accessories and models...
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  • Exploring with touch

    Fontplore “Fontplore is an interactive application designed for searching and exploring font databases. Fontplore helps you to easily find the right typeface for your project in a collection of several thousands of fonts. It lets you browse, preview...
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  • Green lasers

    World’s First Green Laser Diode Will Lead To Better TVs, Pocket Projectors“A Japanese company named Sumitomo Electric Industries has developed “the world’s first (pure) green laser diode.” This development could result in...
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  • Wi-fi fitness

    Withings WiFi Body Scale Transmits Your Shame To The Internet, iPhone “The Withings scale backs up its high-tech look with high-tech WiFi functionality—wisking your weight and body fat measurements to a web dashboard that can be accessed via a free...
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