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In the latest cautionary tale involving the so-called In... white-hat hackers have devised an attack against network... lightbulbs that exposes Wi-Fi passwords to anyone in pro... the LED devices.
The attack works against LIFX smart lightbulbs, which c

These heat maps reveal where we feel love, anger, shame ...
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... what we feel and the physical sensation of that feeling.

Microsoft researchers have designed a smart bra that can...
The prototype contains removable sensors that monitor he ...

Microsoft researchers have designed a smart bra that can...
The prototype contains removable sensors that monitor he ...

Virtual reality has made exciting progress over the past several years. However, developing for VR still requires expensive, specialized hardware. Thinking about how to make VR accessible to more people, a group of VR enthusiasts at Google ...

Sharp today announced its upcoming "Free-Form Display" t... allow the company to nearly eliminate the traditional be... LCD displays. As a result, Sharp will be able to build L... any shape to conform to the display area of the intended...
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XOX is a new emotional technology platform that enables ... to track users’ emotional states, collect data and tai... experiences for both individuals and large audiences.
The XOX platform comprises of a number of products and s ...

On Sept. 13, 1848, at around 4:30 p.m., the time of day ... start wandering, a railroad foreman named Phineas Gage f... with gunpowder and turned his head to check on his men. ... normal moment of his life.
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Based on the results, we argued that:
As it stands, the only tradition in HCI is that of h ...
The accumulated knowledge in HCI is almost exclusive ...
By nature, HCI research is like nomads chasing water ...
Therefore, current HCI researc

We all create data about ourselves every day. From task ... trackers to the tweets we share, our data is everywhere.
Even if you're actively tracking your life, you're only ...
We help you find the hidden connections in your data and ...

Based on the results, we argued that:
As it stands, the only tradition in HCI is that of h ...
The accumulated knowledge in HCI is almost exclusive ...
By nature, HCI research is like nomads chasing water ...
Therefore, current HCI researc

Intel’s just-announced Edison computer—the one the s... card—illustrates the corollary to Moore’s Law. If yo... more circuits on a piece of silicon, you can also make c... smaller and smaller. And this heralds a whole new way of... computing,

Some of that research went back a generation. It was in ... instance, that researchers discovered that aspects of vi...
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Researchers found that Americans perceive the line with ...
More recently psychologists had challe

This study confirmed previous results of an association ... cordless phone use and malignant brain tumours. These fi... support for the hypothesis that RF-EMFs play a role both... and promotion stages of carcinogenesis.

Red, yellow and orange show activated regions while blue... are deactivated in these maps of bodily sensations assoc...
Yellow shows regions of increased sensation while blue a ...
Chests puffing up with pride — and happiness felt head ...
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... lush of shame, to that warm lower-belly feeling in love.

In 1945, Dr. Vannevar Bush published "As We May Think", ...
In that article, he described an automated desk called a ...
Sadly, Vannevar Bush's memex was far beyond what the ana ...
Until Now!
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Catalog your physical CDs and use the Virtual CD feature... what CDs you own and at the same time see which subset o... CDs are copied to your hard drive. Instead of tracking y... separately, the virtual CD function gives you an integra...

optical illusion Which lozenge is darker: The one on top... bottom?
Illustration by Dale Purves, used by permission
What’s the illusion, you ask? Those two vertical lozen ...

Blue green spiral illusion
You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orang ...

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Sense Mother is at the head of a family of small connected sensors that blend into your daily life to make it serene, healthy and pleasurable.

A prototype bra from Microsoft researchers uses sensors ... wearer's mood with a goal of helping prevent stress-rela...

Need a computerised toupee made of yak hair? Of course y...
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The ‘Fall of Facebook’ seems an odd title given this ...

Science can explain a lot of things that I've always won... science!). In this case, it explains what I've known for... been unable to quite understand: Why do some folks who h... money than others seem to be less nice and more evil to ...
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Chris Dancy records nearly every detail of his life. So ... magazine has dubbed him “the Quantified Man”. Using ... sensors, mobile devices and ‘low friction’ tracking ... seamlessly building a digital archive of his entire bein...
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