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Materials scientists know that things behave differently...
The MIT team, comprised of Parthiban Santhanam, Dodd Jos ...
How the heck is that possible? The long answer looks lik ...
The researchers chose a light-emitting diode with a ...
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Creative activities often follow a double-hump model. At... all the obvious ideas. These aren't a waste of time; som...
There's a drop in energy between humps One and Two, as w ...
Bad ideas are not boring, meh proposals. Bad is not the ...
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When I told my Graphic Design professor that I wanted to ...
That was years ago, and orthographics, of course, are no ...

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A continuing issue in industrial design education is whe ...
Instead of setting constraints or limitations to dictate ...

Passive amplifiers have been doing their acoustic trick ... Victrola was cutting edge. It’s pretty simple, really⮮. noise on the working end of a horn and you’re likely t... bit easier in the direction it’s pointed in. The conce...
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This document provides statistics about the structure an... LOD cloud. It also analyzes the extend to which LOD data... nine best practices that are either recommended W3C or h... the LOD community.

Light field cameras – which let you adjust the focus o...
According to DigiTimes, Taiwan's Industrial Technology R ...
Apple is also investigating light field camera technolog ...
But there's a way to go before Lytro tech finds its way ...
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Paul Vermeesch’s Star Wars Relativity model is a 1-foo... scenes from classic Star Wars settings.
Six months in the making, I present my largest creat ...

Over a four-year period, Boaler followed the progress of... students through their high school careers at three high... the three was "Railside High". Not its real name, this s... urban setting, close by a railway line. She first visite...
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Tactus Technology is showcasing its next-gen mobile tact...


Essentially, Tactus has created a Tactile Layer co ...
Mobile tactile tech gets physicalA Tactus spokesperson t ...
Well, Tactus uses microfluidic technology to create phys ...
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Elecom has debuted a wireless projection keyboard that c... mobile device via Bluetooth.
The slick futuristic device could be the perfect choice ...
This keyboard is a wireless projectionStill, if you're a ...

Logitech has unveiled a new mouse which operates on the ...
"People are growing accustomed to using fingertip gestur ...
Logitch Touch Mouse M600 has no buttons"In fact, for man ...
Indeed, the mouse is controlled using gestures that can ...
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When we shipped #NewTwitter in September 2010, we built ... application architecture that pushed all of the UI rende... JavaScript running on our users’ browsers and consumed... API directly, in a similar way to our mobile clients. Th...
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Some bouncers have been demanding people hand over their... they can check Facebook accounts, Newsbeat has been told.
It's claimed that it is to make sure the person is who t ...