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  • Better image capture

    Light sensor breakthrough could enhance solar cells and digital cameras “Digital cameras are now universal, but they suffer from a major limitation: they take poor pictures under dim light. One reason for this is that the image sensor chips inside...
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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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  • Mapping disease

    Diseasome: Explore the human disease network “The diseasome website is a disease/disorder relationship explorer and a sample of an innovative map-oriented scientific work. Built by a team of researchers and engineers, it uses the Human Disease Network...
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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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  • 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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  • Printing batteries

    Printable batteries to make light work of embedded electronics “The research, led by Prof. Reinhard Baumann of the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Electronic Nano Systems, obtained these innovative cells by making use of a silk-screen printing...
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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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  • 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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  • Less-invasive electrodes

    What’s on your mind – microelectrodes offer poke free brain control “Technology has already been developed to read signals from the brain cells using small arrays of brain penetrating electrodes to help paralyzed people move a computer cursor, operate...
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  • Measuring

    Digital Ruler “This wooden, yet digital, concept ruler combines “values of a traditional ruler, with advantages of a digital interface.” I think it still needs lines, but how cool is it that it sets the zero point wherever you start...
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  • Investing in digitizing books

    Pay to digitize a book, share in its future sales “In addition to the regular USD 1.95 price for a downloadable copy of a digitized book, subsidizing it through the Invest in Knowledge program costs an additional USD 28.05—not too much more than...
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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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  • Code-driven construction

    Designing walls for robot bricklayers “There are lots of possible effects to investigate: displacing bricks, rotating them, leaving gaps between them, creating ledges of various depths for shadow effects, combining bricks of various colors, and...
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  • Video card

    $25 Video Business Card (and Gaming Device) “Streaming video and audio are just the start – it can be password protected, can release time-sensitive data and it can be fully interactive as in addition to the screen and speakers, there’s a navigational...
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