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2016-09-27 10:23:19     The Revolutionary Concept of Standard Sizes Only Dates to the 1920s | Atlas Obscura

http://www.atlasobscura.com/...s-only-dates-to-the-1920s?...

Despite their prevalence, building standards really only... the last century. A major turning point in their wild pr... in the 1920s, when the German government made the then-r... standardize the size of office paper.
This seemingly bureaucratic move i

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2016-04-29 11:52:12    

https://www.newscientist.com/...es-our-feelings-about-words/

But keyboards may have an impact on the emotional associations we have with words as well. It has been found that words consisting of a higher proportion of letters from the right-hand side of a QWERTY keyboard – those from “y”, “h⮮.

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2016-02-02 10:21:01     The Benefits of No-Tech Note Taking - The Chronicle of Higher Education

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Benefits-of-No-T.../228089/

test scores in my visual-communication course have gone ... laptops the boot a year ago. Now I coach students on how... longhand to help those who have not used that muscle muc... convinced that while laptops have a lot of good uses in ... taking is n

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2015-02-13 08:34:11     Watch The New Phorm iPad Mini Case Generate Physical Keys Out Of Thin Air | TechCrunch

http://techcrunch.com/20.../tactus-phorm-ipad-mini-case/?...

Apple’s touch-based devices have changed the way we in... computers entirely, but that hasn’t stopped users from... thinking wistfully of the days when physical keyboards r... Tactus has taken that desire to heart, and the startup‮..
Tactus co-f

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2014-11-23 14:53:23     BBC News - What phantom limbs and mirrors teach us about the brain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15938103

In a lab in southern California scientists are curing th... incurable with little more than a mirror, and changing o... the brain in the process.
In mid-November the team at the University of California ...
That study is in its very early stages, but si

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2014-07-12 07:04:12     A 3D Printed Cast That Can Heal Your Bones 40-80% Faster | TechCrunch

http://techcrunch.com/...t-can-heal-your-bones-40-80-faster/

It looks like something from the Borg (read, cool), but ...
The Osteoid, created by Turkish student Deniz Karasahin, ...
The idea of ultrasonic healing vibrations to heal bones ...
Take a look at the pic below and you’ll see the Osteoi ...
... won’

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2014-06-17 07:37:05     Intimacy — V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media

http://v2.nl/archive/works/intimacy

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2014-06-17 07:36:14     Bookshops of the Future: Where Physical and Digital Co-exist.

http://www.theliteraryplatform.com/...-and-digital-co-exist/

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2014-04-12 07:35:28     MIT Unveils The Shapeshifting Furniture Of The Future | Co.Design | business + design

http://www.fastcodesign.com/...ing-furniture-of-the-future#3

As part of the Lexus Design Amazing exhibition in Milan,... table made up of more than 1,000 squares arranged in a t... attached to a motor beneath the surface. The Transform c... depending upon how users interact with it and can also m... itself to i

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2013-12-03 08:12:13     End of Moore's Law: It's not just about physics | Business Tech - CNET News

http://news.cnet.com/...ores-law-its-not-just-about-physics/

A DARPA director argues that the end of the Moore's Law ... essentially why you now have a tablet in your hand -- co... because of insurmountable economic challenges.

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2013-10-16 16:51:48     Asda supermarket launches 3D printing service

http://www.dezeen.com/...arket-launches-3d-printing-service/

Asda supermarket launches 3D printing service
News: Asda is to become the first UK supermarket to offe ...

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2013-09-05 11:43:40     Nike+ FuelBand and Google Glass: what next for the 'quantified self'? | Technology | theguardian.com

http://www.theguardian.com/...d-google-glass-quantified-self

We're only just at the beginning of the 'quantified self... tracks movement, diet and other issues using gadgets

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2013-09-05 11:28:46     Mademethink: Leap Motion a flawed and isolated advance

http://tcperspectives.blogspot.se/...d-isolated-advance.html

I was one of the people who funded Leap otion on Kicksta... wowed by the potential of the product. I put my money do... eager anticipation. I loved the idea of an almost magica... interacting. I dreamt of the way it might, might, help m...
I have been

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2013-03-26 23:10:10     ScienceDirect.com - Acta Psychologica - Motor expertise modulates movement processing in working memory

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar.../S0001691813000255

A substantial amount of literature has demonstrated indi... to code verbally a series of movements for subsequent re... mechanisms underlying movement encoding remain unclear. ... argue that sensorimotor expertise influences the involve... processes t

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2013-03-13 10:14:27     BBC News - 'Pirate Bay' for 3D printing launched

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21754915

The company that developed 3D printed gun parts has anno... launch a new firm, dedicated to copyright-free blueprint...
Defcad, as the firm will be known, has already been dubb ...
The site will become a "search engine for 3D printing," ...
But its flo

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2013-03-09 16:44:50     BBC News - Star Trek 'holodeck' in the living room?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21706180

With "immersive media" taking content well beyond the TV... technology is attempting to move virtual reality towards... closer to real life.
Whether it be a cave, an igloo or a theatre, virtual rea ...
Full 360-degree screens are now capable of taking a

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2013-03-05 17:13:39     MYO - Wearable Gesture Control from Thalmic Labs - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?...

MYO - Wearable Gesture Control from Thalmic Labs

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2013-03-05 09:43:35     MIT wants future US Army uniforms to contain 'functional fibres' (Wired UK)

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/.../mit-smart-fibres?...

The gold fibres in the uniform, the product of years of ... actually do that communications work yet. Currently, the... a uniform," Joannopoulos tells Wired.com: They're about ... diameter, and Joannopoulos wants to scale down to 100 mi...
The fibres

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2013-02-07 16:34:21     Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks-_Mh1QhMc

Body language affects how others see us, but it may also... ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how "powe... standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't ... can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain... have an imp

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2013-02-02 09:24:22     Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution | The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/...e-engineered-beautiful-revolution

Cards are like a digital equivalent to the traditional a... concept of marrying form and function — so that the wa... inseparable from what the thing is. "These are objects,"... feel, not necessarily real, but they feel virtual. They⮮. be fake thi

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2013-01-31 09:28:38     Inexpensive home-brewed prostheses created using 3D printers

http://www.gizmag.com/inexpensive-prostheses/26009/

According to the International Society of Prosthetics an... there are some 32 million amputees in the world today, a...
Eric Ronning's ReHand, made mostly out of parts fabr ...
Eric Ronning's ReHand won US$10,000 at UW-Madison's ...
Liam ou

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2013-01-23 08:02:13     'Smart-Tattoos': How They Could End Up Saving Your Life

http://www.takepart.com/...ey-could-end-saving-your-life?...

So they’re not exactly cute, but if you came of age du... chances are you have at least regrettable tattoo anyway.... if that same tattoo is in the shape of a butterfly!) B... temporary tattoos do much more than serve as a symbol of... they can re

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2013-01-23 08:01:51     Nokia Patents Vibrating Smart Tattoos | PCWorld

http://www.pcworld.com/...tents_vibrating_smart_tattoos.html

Our bodies may some day become extensions for smartphone... devices, if a new Nokia patent is any indication.
Nokia has patented magnetic material that would alert we ...

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2013-01-21 09:31:15     Metamaterial camera needs no lens, could herald cheaper imaging tech

http://www.engadget.com/2013.../metamaterial-imaging-sensor/

Metamaterials are proving to be quite useful for toying ... electromagnetic spectrum, whether for technology previou... the stuff of science fiction, or for boring real-world a... Engineers at Duke University have come up something that... the latter

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2013-01-07 19:20:22     zSpace - revolutionary virtual-holographic computing

http://zspace.com/

zSpace is a revolutionary, immersive, interactive 3D env... computing, creating, communication and entertainment.

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2013-01-04 17:14:22     A Passenger Airplane Basically Flew Upside Down Because of a Dumb Pilot (Updated)

http://gizmodo.com/...ew-upside-down-because-of-a-dumb-pilot

A Passenger Airplane Basically Flew Upside Down Because ... (Updated)Update: Thanks to Gizmodo reader, Randy, we hav... on how this happened. As you can see in that picture, th... the cockpit door lock switch are no more than 10cm apart... door (the s

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2012-12-22 19:09:31     3D Printed Record on Vimeo

https://vimeo.com/56017345

I've created a technique for converting digital audio fi... printable 33rpm records and printed some functional prot... weekend. These records play on regular turntables, with ... regular speeds, just like any vinyl record. The audio on...
instructabl

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2012-12-17 17:50:37     THE END OF SMARTPHONES: Here's A Computer Screen On A Contact Lens - Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/...the-smartphone-era-2012-12

Over in Belgium, scientists have finally taken a crucial... building screens into contact lenses.
Jelle De Smet and a team of researchers at Ghent Univers ...
To do it, they had to come up with new kinds of "conduct ...

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2012-12-14 16:26:49     Berndnaut - works

http://www.berndnaut.nl/works.htm


Nimbus Cukurcuma Hamam II, 2012
Lambda Print
75 x 100 / 125 x 167 cm
... Photo: Onur Dag

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2012-12-14 09:28:04     N. Joseph Woodland, Inventor of the Bar Code, Dies at 91 - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/...f-the-bar-code-dies-at-91.html?...

“What I’m going to tell you sounds like a fairy tale... told Smithsonian magazine in 1999. “I poked my four fi... and for whatever reason — I didn’t know — I pulled... and drew four lines. I said: ‘Golly! Now I have four l... could be wi

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