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  • Content destruction

    Bringing Impermanence To The Digital World “An entire generation is emerging that may know nothing but cloud computing, and we’re increasingly becoming accustomed to a world where all data on the internet will last forever. Temporary.cc explores...
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  • Mapping movies

    Crowds map filming locations across the world “Filmaps is rapidly creating a crowd-powered database of filming locations around the world. Users can search by location or film title to bring up a Google Map that features location photos from Panoramio...
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  • Drawing with your eyes

    EyeWriter Allows Man To Paint Despite Paralysis “the incredible people behind the EyeWriter Initiative are making sure that not even paralysis, like Tony’s, stops someone from making such a creative contribution.The project is an open-source...
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  • Twitter data

    The bathroom scale evolves with wireless and Twitter integration “The scales are capable of uploading to a Twitter account to share progress, get advice on how to improve things further and presumably motivate you to keep at it and avoid the embarrassment...
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  • Games from music

    Use Your Own Digital Music Library to Generate Enemies for Symphony – Music library game “games like this could help sell music in weird ways if users are posting that certain songs get them certain levels that are really great. A crap song...
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  • Augmented reality encyclopaedia content

    cyclopedia “by moving your iphone around, wikipedia entries will begin to pop-up. these entries tell you about what you are looking at in reality and link to the full entries on wikipedia. the application also allows you to search wikipedia through...
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  • Componentised phone

    With Fujitsu’s new phone, the screen and the keyboard get a divorce “The detachable screen communicates with the keyboard via Bluetooth, and the keyboard side has both a QWERTY and a number pad. Oh yeah, and they threw in a pico projector”...
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  • Real-time auctions

    StuffBuff: Real-Time Auctions With A Viral Twist “…it’s looking to combine the real-time nature of sites like Twitter with traditional auction sites like eBay. […] A standard StuffBuff auction (called a ‘Live Haggle’) looks quite similar to a chat...
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  • Visualizing books

    One Book, Many Readings: Visualizing ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books “Christian Swinehart subdivided these ‘narrative’ and ‘endings’ groups based on the number of choices offered (e.g. a ‘branching’...
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  • Gadget finishes

    Nissan licenses self-healing paint for mobile phones “Self-healing paint has been with us on automobiles since Nissan released its “Scratch Guard Coat” in 2005. Scratch Guard is a highly elastic resin that self-heals fine scratches and is capable...
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  • Mapping points of interest

    New micro-mapping software lets travelers plot points of interest while they walk “London-based software toolkit maker CloudMade, Inc. by the end of this month will introduce a free iPhone application called Mapzen Points of Interest (POI) Collector...
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  • Odour analysis

    Judging a Book by Its Odor “An old book’s familiar musty smell is due to hundreds of different volatile organic compounds gassing out from the paper and other materials, such as the binding. The particular blend of compounds results from specific...
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  • Data architecture

    The CLOUD “The CLOUD proposes an entirely new form of observation deck,connecting visitors to both the whole of London and the whole of the world, immersing them in the euphoric gusts of weather and digital data. Each individual footstep on the...
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  • PCs for seniors

    New PC to encourage older users “The simplified desktop – called SimplicITy – has just six buttons directing users to basic tasks such as e-mail and chat. The computer comes pre-loaded with 17 video tutorials from television presenter...
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  • Data and jewellery

    PLOT Makes Data Stylish With Fashionable Jewelry “Fluctuating prices of gold, silver, oil and lead are used to generate the graphic elements within the jewelery.”  PSFK Read More...
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