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  • Multi-display

    No need to touch – just give it a wave! “Gesture Cube uses 3D spatial movement tracking to help transform navigating a device into a magical intuitive experience. The underlying GestIC® technology detects your hand´s approach and movements –...
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  • See-through solar power

    World’s First Solar-Powered Circuit Could Revolutionize Touchscreen Tech “Solar chargers are certainly nothing new, but this circuit is embedded right in the touchscreen, so you don’t have to set the device on its back to catch light. It’s...
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  • Robot control

    Wearable System Allows Robots To Mimic Human Actions “The harness detects and tracks the movement of the wearer, translating it into commands for a remotely controlled machine that mimics human action.”  PSFK Read More...
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  • Dynamic signs

    Huge Interactive Signpost Shows the Direction to Favorite Locations “This gigantic, interactive signpost sponsored by Nokia Ovi Maps in the form of a dynamically rotating electronic LED screen allows passers-by to send in their favorite location...
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  • Consciousness

    Brain scan allows unconscious patient to communicate “Owen and his collaborators repeated their fMRI experiments on 54 patients who had previously been classified as either vegetative or “minimally conscious” (a condition in which a...
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  • City planning

    The Attractive City Generator “The students task was to explore urban design methodologies with the use of parametric programs based on object oriented programing, with their particular area of interest focosed on interactivity in urban planning...
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  • Keeping things

    Hard Drives: Our Society’s Working Memory “Modern drives might not fare so well, though. The storage density on hard drives is now over 200 gigabits per square inch and still climbing fast. While today’s drives have sophisticated systems for compensating...
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  • Energy through sport

    Energy Generating Soccer Ball Brings Clean Power to Off-Grid Areas“The ball works by capturing kinetic energy through an inductive coil mechanism, which works in a similar manner to those flashlights that are powered by shaking. As the ball is batted...
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  • Looking closer

    Noticings : The Game of Noticing the World Around You “Noticings is basically a game about learning to look at the world around you, as their site states – Cities are wonderful places, and everybody finds different things in them. Some of...
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  • Carbon circuits

    IBM Preps Carbon Transistors for Post-Silicon Era “The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors predicts that the silicon-based CMOS transistor technology used by microchips today will run out of steam by the end of the decade, but IBM...
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  • Generic multi-touch

    Turn Your Monitor Into a Touchscreen That Can Detect 16 Fingers, Using a Polymer Film “It’s not just glass that Displax is claiming their film will work with—apparently plastic and wood can be made into an interactive screen, which will detect...
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  • Social clothes

    Waldemeyer outfits Imogen Heap’s Twitter dress at the Grammys “When Imogen walked the red carpet to collect her Grammy, fans could send messages and photographs directly to her dress. The messages scrolled across the collar while the images...
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  • Hacking OS

    Pyxis OS, an operating system for Arduino “Based around the Arduino hardware platform, it adds some pretty impressive features, such as the ability to run programs from an SD card, read/write to a FAT filesystem, and easily display graphics and...
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  • Turning up the augmented reality

    An Augmented (Hyper)Reality “Keiichi comments below on some of the issues he was attempting address: media intrusion, tech-dependence etc. “It is,” he writes, “like most sci-fi, a critique of the present rather than the future...
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  • Physical phone

    Making Digital Content on the Mobile Phone Physically Graspable “The weight-shifting method allows a phone to communicate to users where to walk by dynamically changing its gravitational center along two axes. The shape-changing method is able to...
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