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Stop the press! You don't have to be in the same physical space as someone to form a meaningful friendship with them! Computer games may not be seducing youth after all, but actually providing somewhe

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"We always knew it but now it’s official – pet owners have rose-tinted views of their animals. People even become defensive on behalf of a triangle if told it’s “theirs”."

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"...an interactive performance piece which explores sound and the urban landscape through the physical movements on a skateboard. The result is a musical composition which transforms the skateboa

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"Further discussion and reading led me to design six pillars of Web 2.0 that we wanted to use as the foundation for rebuilding our library Web site."

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"The multitouch interface is so easy, in fact, that it will likely be the first computer interface usable by our pets and farm animals." Karl Schroeder will be venerated as a god by all cat-

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"...the 2007 Digital Future Project found that 43 percent of Internet users who are members of online communities say that they “feel as strongly” about their virtual community as they do about t

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"Cemetery 2.0 is a concept for a set of networked devices that connect burial sites to online memorials for the deceased." Just about weird enough to become commonplace. Via BoingBoing.

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"Parents who engage in the age-old tradition of picture-book reading are not only encouraging early reading development in their children but are also teaching their toddlers about the world arou

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"Not all subways are created equal. What if technology designers recognized this fact and attempted to create an interface that took a deeper look at what being mobile means to each of us?"

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"In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action." Any response from the regular

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"Here lies interpretation, misrepresentation and imagination. Here fiction comes under the control of the perceiver, worlds form distinct from their manufacturer: here be the no-man's land of cre

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"EYCIN consists of a monitor linked to a camera that tracks the eye ... an on-screen pointer follows eye movements and when the user glances at a designated area for half a second, EYCIN interpre

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"From these early findings they felt that it was worthwhile not only to attempt to help people stop taking things for granted, but more importantly, prove to them what was possible when you use w

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"Librovision is an interactive installation where users 'can leaf through a virtual book, enlarge details or shift them about on the display surface by using simple hand motions and without physi

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"This work presents a system which uses the output from face-tracking and gesture recognition software to drive a parameterized guitar effects synthesizer in real-time." An absolute must-hav

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Yet another case of technology following where science fiction has led the way - this is straight out of Vinge's 'Rainbows End'.

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Ooooh! Looks fun, if a little rough-and-ready so far. Early days though - this has been a good year for 3D display technologies so far.

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Online sex moves beyond text-based chatroom romps. A Wired News article.

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A system that can ascertain your mood from reading cues in your facial expression. Could save a few dented case-panels after caffeine-fueled gaming/blogging sessions.

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RFID icons...potential tattoos for spime-heads. Thanks to Bruce Sterling for the link.

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I can't really see this taking off...unless climate change makes it impossible to leave your house-bunker.

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