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  • Your own wall-drawing robot

    The Muralizer Draws Art on Your Wall Automatically “You plug it into your computer and load it up with the vector art of your choosing, hang it up on a string on the surface you want to draw on, and let it do its things. If it’s sold as a...
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  • Wall control

    Interactive Wallpaper: The Living Wall Project “Magnetic and conductive paint on the surface of the wallpaper combined with touch sensors, LED’s and Bluetooth technology will allow users to touch decorative elements of the wall to turn on lamps...
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  • Single propellors

    Micro-vehicle Imitates the Winged Maple Seed “The new “robo-seed” can fly and hover stably using just its single twisting propeller. The researchers accomplished this by separating the carefully-shaped wing and body components of the...
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  • Measuring your sway

    The ear alarm to prevent falls “The Ear Worn Activity Recognition Sensor, or e-AR as it is known, can be used to find out how stable the elderly are on their feet, by measuring the amount the patient sways. Wearers carry out a series of tasks such...
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  • Real vs. virtual drivers

    Video gamers to play for ‘real’ “Real Time Race has been developing a system that places players side-by-side with the drivers in real races. The firm’s technology would map the circuit just before the race so the virtual track...
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  • Picking colours

    ColorJive Helps Visualize Room Colors Before Painting “Upload a picture of your room—an evenly lit photo works best—and begin applying colors from the available palette. You can use the enormous palette from COLOURLovers to access a nearly infinite...
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  • Small, focussed print runs

    New lease of life for newspapers “The Newspaperclub team, all of whom have backgrounds working online, are creating a website that will allow people to design and print small runs of newspapers. The newspapers themselves will be printed at existing...
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  • Light efficiency

    Wrapping Solar Cells around an Optical Fiber “The advantage of a fiber-optic solar-cell system over a planar one is that light bounces around inside an optical fiber as it travels along its length, providing more opportunities to interact with the...
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  • Controlling electrons

    New spintronics breakthrough paves the way to faster computing “A team of researchers from the University of Cincinnati have achieved control of the spin of electrons traveling on a wire by simply regulating an electrical voltage. This is a major...
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  • Random messaging

    I Hope That Someone Gets My Tweet In A Bottle “Once you fill out and cast away your tweet, it goes into 140inABottle’s system for the next 1 to 90 days. That’s the key; just like a message in a bottle in the sea, the tweet won’t be delivered immediately...
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  • Photo translation

    PicTranslator Turns Your iPhone’s Camera into a Language Translator “You just take a picture of the text you want translated, choose the language you want to translate from, and let PicTranslator work its magic. Once you know the (hopefully...
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  • Personal space

    Futuristic workspace looks like a dinosaur egg “Do you like to block the world out completely when you’re working at your desk? Copenhagen-based design team GamFratesi has created a prototype for a sleek, dinosaur egg-like work environment...
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  • Augmented reality games

    Ghostwire: Augmented Reality for the Psychic Set “Using the embedded microphone and camera, Bill Murray wannabes can scan their actual environment for ghosts and then pester them back into the grave by finding objects to appease them.”  PSFK...
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  • Online scrapbooks

    Scrapblog’s QuickMix Is A Dead Simple Tool To Make Digital Scrapbooks “QuickMix users can also tweak their scrapbook using the application’s online design tools, or access Scrapblog’s virtual marketplace to add additional stickers, backgrounds,...
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  • Generating power from feet

    Pavegen: Energy Generating Pavement Hits the Streets “Every time a rubber Pavegen stone is stepped on it bends, producing kinetic energy that is either stored within lithium polymer batteries or distributed to nearby lights, information displays...
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