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WowWee Rovio

WowWee Rovio WiFi Webcam A Consumer Wunderkind

Electronics / Robotics

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 7 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- WowWee introduces the first consumer WiFi roving Webcam for being there without having to go there. The WowWee Rovio is PC/Mac compatible and measures approximately 13.5-inches x 12-inches ...





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Controlling the TV with a wave of the hand

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Touchscreens are so yesterday. Remote controls? So last century. The future is controlling your devices with a simple wave of the hand.


How could Santa know if you've been good or bad?

How could Santa know if you've been good or bad?

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By using technology to detect guilty expressions, of course. CSIRO is using automated expression recognition technology to tell whether someone is in pain and, according to computer scientist, ...


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Gadgets: Great gadgets, as a gift or not

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Officially this is not another gift guide. Instead I'd rather consider it the first of two roundups either of products I just haven't gotten to this year or some I have just couldn't find a home for.


Computing with a wave of the hand

Computing with a wave of the hand (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- The iPhone’s familiar touch screen display uses capacitive sensing, where the proximity of a finger disrupts the electrical connection between sensors in the screen. A competing approach, ...


Counterfeit euros are detected with an optical mouse

Counterfeit euros are detected with an optical mouse

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The sensor of some optical mice can be used to easily and cheaply detect counterfeit euros, according to a study published by Spanish researchers of the University of Lleida (UdL) in the scientific journal ...


South Korea's Samsung and Taiwan's Acer are teaming up with AT&T to introduce low-priced netbook computers

Samsung, Acer team up with AT&T on netbooks

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

South Korea's Samsung and Taiwan's Acer are teaming up with US telecom giant AT&T to introduce low-priced netbook computers for the holiday shopping season.


Creating 3D models with a simple webcam

Creating 3D models with a simple webcam (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (25) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Constructing virtual 3D models usually requires heavy and expensive equipment, or takes lengthy amounts of time. A group of researchers at the University of Cambridge, Qi Pan, Dr Gerhard Reitmayr ...


Esquire looks to energize print with 3-D animation

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Hold Esquire's December issue in front of a webcam, and an on-screen image of the magazine pops to life, letters flying off the cover. Shift and tilt the magazine, and the animation on the screen moves accordingly.


WD TV HD media player

Gadgets: WD media player makes watching your own HD video easier

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Producing your own high-definition video has become increasingly easier with today's line of HD video cameras. But transferring the content from your computer to a TV can be a challenge.


'Virtual students' go to school without being in school

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Eleventh-grader Philip Marten's second-hour class is orchestra. But first hour, third hour, fourth hour and the rest of his school day are spent not at school but at home in Shawnee, Kan.



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