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Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality: Science Fiction or Reality? (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (17) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer graphics have come a long way since the birth of Atari Games over 30 years ago. Today, computer graphics seem very real and some day researchers will pull graphics out of your television ...


Second Life data offers window into how trends spread

Second Life data offers window into how trends spread

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Do friends wear the same style of shoe or see the same movies because they have similar tastes, which is why they became friends in the first place? Or once a friendship is established, do ...


Web 2.0 for the real world

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers working on some of the most fundamental issues facing the future internet paradigm have developed - in their spare time, no less - a mobile platform that brings some of the most powerful ...


The two worlds of kids' morals

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Children's moral behavior and attitudes in the real world largely carry over to the virtual world of computers, the Internet, video games and cell phones. Interestingly, there are marked gender and race differences in the ...


Maths model helps to unravel relationship between nutrients and biodiversity

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The level of nutrients in soil determines how many different kinds of plants and trees can thrive in an ecosystem, according to new research published by biologists and mathematicians today (10 September) in Nature.