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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 ...
At 0:50, so

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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Van den Hoven believes we need to delete more. “A lot ... think forgetting is a bad thing, that it’s a bug of hu... not. Forgetting is a side-product of a successful memory.”
And that, she says, is one of the project’s aims. “W ...

Peripheral vision is whacked.

Fairphone is a social enterprise. We started in 2010 as ... society, Action Aid and Schrijf-Schrijf, aimed at raisin... conflict minerals in electronics and the wars that the s... minerals is fueling in the DR Congo. The campaign and re... complex sup

According to the F.T.C., the company, TRENDnet, told cus... products were “secure,” marketing its cameras for ho... baby monitoring. In fact, the devices were compromised. ... a hacker in January 2012 exploited a security flaw and p... live feeds,

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

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

We’re in the middle of a significant change in how peo... services. Use of mobile devices such as smartphones and ... exploding.
People should be able to use digital services wherever t ...
Here’s how government services have been responding to ...

Personalization is a multidimensional concept, and it is... unpack it. If we are really talking about personalizatio... simply co-opting a word to make the technically feasible... and socially sophisticated, we need to think more deeply.

Nostalgia has been shown to counteract loneliness, bored... makes people more generous to strangers and more toleran... Couples feel closer and look happier when they’re shar... memories. On cold days, or in cold rooms, people use nos... feel warmer

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

Abraham Maslow and some examples of pyramids inspired by...
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Herrings - good to eat, not to inhale
... s satisfied, the desire to fulfil the next set kicks in.

With your help, we're creating a comprehensive database ... towers, cell phone signal strength readings, and Wi-Fi a... the world. Our goal is to become the global authority on...

with excitement building for the release of a new VR hel... Rift - it is worth asking what went wrong the first time... lessons be learned?

Unlike Google (GOOG, Fortune 500), which crawls the Web ... websites, Shodan navigates the Internet's back channels....
Shodan runs 24/7 and collects information on about 500 m ...
It's stunning what can be found with a simple search on ...
Shodan sear

I wrote a Thunderbird add-on to make the email interface... wanted — one that helps me remember to stay in touch w... care about, instead of always distracting me with the ne... trivia.

Analysts ABI Research expect the wearable computer marke... exponentially, predicting there will be 485 million ship... 2018.
A Microsoft executive said recently he expected we would ...

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Daniel Berger, a researcher at MIT, traced these neurons ...
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People can get pretty addicted to computer games. By som ...
Right now I'm at the novice level of a game called EyeWi ...

Director Jake Schreier talks about his new film, which e...
Frank Langella on Robot & Frank: 'I'd rather make love i ...
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The tech giant's 'wearable computing' project is now bei... volunteers, meaning you might already have been surrepti... uploaded on to Google's servers. How worried should you be?

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

So this article is my attempt to summarise what I have d... use of humour in teaching. There is rather more written ... students, so I have unashamedly drawn upon the sociology... literature. However, there are similarities between soci... psychology

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

People like lists of things. They're everywhere on the i... any subject matter you can think of, odds are there's a ... Nowhere is safe. Even here, on the Guardian Science sect... most popular articles in recent months is a list. But wh... popular? We