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Microsoft this week filed a patent application covering ... construct a "tactile" touchscreen – a display that use... to convince users they are actually touching the ridges,... of a displayed image.
Whereas previous screens produced only an illusion

Handset maker Nokia today announced the creation of an e... called "Nokia Situations" that can automatically adjust ... behavior for various situations and contexts. For exampl... shut off the ringer whenever you go into a meeting, with...
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Jigsaw figures out what you are doing by monitoring your... microphone, GPS and accelerometer for patterns character... activities - and it could be set to send the results to ... sites.
More importantly, Jigsaw can log how active you are each ...

Launching in beta today, Google Cloud Connect is an add-... syncs documents, spreadsheets and presentations from Off... 2010 with the “Google cloud.” In other words, it tak... desktop and makes a backup copy in Google Docs, gives it... constantly

Shoplifting is at its highest recorded levels, £4.88 bi... according to the Centre for Retail Research. Internet Ey... designed to combat this rise by detecting these crimes a...
Internet Eyes is an online instant event notification sy ...

A smart city is an open city. It runs on data, so public... demonstrate a presumption of openness, making data freel... in an accessible format. Data connectivity needs to be s... a privilege and as ubiquitous as water from the tap.

Technology editor Charles Arthur sees if he has the righ... Parrot's Wi-Fi controlled quadricopter for a test flight

Two months ago I wrote a blog on "media gurus" who charg... promoting "free" as a business model. The blog drew some... responses, with Guardian contributor Cory Doctorow posti... accusing me of not understanding how giving work away fo... promotional

Jaron Lanier's book, You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto, ... feathers in the US. The book takes a swipe at Web 2.0, a... destroying individuality, destroying creativity and dest... middle-class professions. On the cover of the book are t...
"It's early

Members of a new generation of digitally savvy humanists... to stop looking for inspiration in the next political or... “ism” and start exploring how technology is changing... of the liberal arts. This latest frontier is about metho... powerful te

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We have put together this website, to give you informati... Argyll Array Offshore Windfarm, west of Argyll and the i...

Wind power produces no harmful emissions of carbon dioxi... to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions from electricity ...

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By combining the color and the depth image captured by t... Kinect, one can project the color image back out into sp... "holographic" representation of the persons or objects t...
No project page yet, but it will go up on my regular web ...
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This is a Toolbar Script for Mac OS X.
When you click its icon in the toolbar of a given direct ...
It's also possible to drop one or more folders or other ...

Understanding the reality of poverty is the critical ste... problem. Time and again, microfinance has been proven to... effective method of combating poverty. With the goal of ... to the reality of living on a dollar a day and helping t...
To achieve

Weird huh ?
This robot is used to mimic a remote users facial moveme ...

Fixing the world, one piece of hardware at a time.
Free Repair Manuals We make it easy for you to fix thing ...
Fix the Planet Repair is recycling! The best way to keep ...
Help us teach repair What if everyone had access to a fr ...
We sell parts We fund

Turning classic book covers into inspirational t-shirts,... recently added a kids line to its collection of "intelli... fashions. Tykes can don soon-to-be-favorite reads like "... Rye," "Moby Dick," "Pride and Prejudice" or "Brave New W... distressed,

Update: New blog entry: Introducing S4
S4 is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, partiall ...

With Kinect, Microsoft is finally getting it right. And ... Kinect, while it incorporates ridiculously advanced tech... software, is not about technology or software. It is abo...
As I threw a virtual ball with my real arm to my black p ...
What kept e

Kiva's mission is to connect people, through lending, fo...
Kiva empowers individuals to lend to an entrepreneur acr ...
Pendo Luisi, 27 years old, borrowed $175 to open a cafe ...
Kiva was born of the following beliefs:
... r 2009, Kiva has facilitated

Consider Google. In a well-publicized move, a senior des... recently quit, stating that Google had no interest in or... design. Google, it seems, relies primarily upon test res... skill or judgment. Want to know whether a design is effe... Google can

This optical illusion is reproduced with the permission ... Adelson of M.I.T. Click here for details on the Professo... also to Andy Grüneberg for bringing this to our attention.
This is simply the best optical illusion we've ever seen ...

Imagining A “Post-PC” World

A bionic eye implant has been shown to give blind men an...
The technology is quite incredible. A three millimetre s ...
However, as impressive as the technology is, the impact ...
The results have been tagged as astonishing by eye surge ...
... suffere

By Nick Heath, 1 November 2010 16:15
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Online travel firm Expedia has found that data analytics ...
Facebook
... e that what we are doing is worth something?'," he said.

There is an approach called "working backwards" that is ... Amazon. We try to work backwards from the customer, rath... with an idea for a product and trying to bolt customers ...
For new initiatives a product manager typically starts b ...
If the bene