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The Invisible Bicycle Helmet

“If people say it’s impossible we have to prove them wrong.” Design students Anna and Terese took on a giant challenge as an exam project.
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[VIDEO] Revolutionary technology enables objects to know how they are being touched

Touché proposes a novel Swept Frequency Capacitive Sensing technique that can not only detect a touch event, but also recognize complex configurations of the human hands and body.

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Shrew whiskers inspire ground-breaking robot design [w/Video}

Shrew whiskers inspire ground-breaking robot design [w/Video} | Science News | Scoop.it

The Etruscan shrew, one of the world’s tiniest mammals, measuring around 4 centimetres long, is the inspiration for a ground-breaking new robot developed to use sophisticated whiskers to find its way around.

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Inside the Inflativerse

The Inflativerse is a mobile planetarium being used by The University of Nottingham. More science at http://www.test-tube.org.uk/ This video by Stephen Slate...
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Video: Tobii Prototype Lets You Control a Monitor With Just Your Eyes

Video: Tobii Prototype Lets You Control a Monitor With Just Your Eyes | Science News | Scoop.it

Forget mouse clicking, finger swiping, or even using your voice to control a digital display. Tobii’s eye-tracking technology, demoed as a prototype at CES, will let you control a laptop or monitor using only the movements of your eyes.

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Microphone turns any surface into touch interface[VIDEO]

In this video we show how it is possible to perform gesture recognition just with contact microphones and transform every surface into an interactive board.
Through gesture recognition techniques we detect different kind of fingers-touch and associate them with different sounds.
In the video we used two different audio synthesis techniques:
1- physic modelling, which consists in generating the sound by simulating physical laws;
2- concatenative synthesis (audio mosaicing), in which the sound of the contact microphone is associated with its closest frame present in a sound database.

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14 Best Inventions Using Biomimicry in 2011 (Videos)

14 Best Inventions Using Biomimicry in 2011 (Videos) | Science News | Scoop.it
We've covered a lot of biomimicry news in 2011. Here is a summary of our favorite inventions that lean on the natural world for inspiration.
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Display team creates texture-changing bubble screen (w/ Video)

Display team creates texture-changing bubble screen (w/ Video) | Science News | Scoop.it
(Phys.org) -- A team from three universities developed what they claim is the world’s thinnest screen from a bubble.

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Mobile Innovators

These innovators made your phone smarter & more fun. So how'd they do it?
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The dolphin jetpack that lets you swim like one

Franky Zapata uses a flyboard to zoom in and out of the water and leap through the air. Report by Jeremy Barnes. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.c...
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NEVER WET - Nanotechnology neverwet fabrics

Hi i inform you that i m not created this video full copyrights has Ross Nanotechnology http://vimeo.com/neverwet i uploaded this video to share knowledge ab...
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Smartphone Brain Scanner [VIDEO]

Smartphone Brain Scanner [VIDEO] | Science News | Scoop.it

We demonstrate a fully functional smartphone brain scanner consisting of a low-cost 14-channel EEG headset with a wireless connection to a smartphone (Nokia N900), enabling minimally invasive EEG monitoring in naturalistic settings. The smartphone provides a touch-based interface with real-time brain state decoding and 3D reconstruction.

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Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy

"There's a world of opportunity to re-think and re-design the way we make stuff. 'Re-Thinking Progress' explores how through a change in perspective we can redesign the way our economy works"


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What if We Lived in a Giant 3-D Touchscreen? - Is This A Good Idea : Science Channel

What if We Lived in a Giant 3-D Touchscreen? - Is This A Good Idea : Science Channel | Science News | Scoop.it
Do you have a tablet computer yet? You might not need one if Pat Kiger's giant 3D touchscreen dreams are realized.
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