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Parcels Find Their Way to You Via the Crowd
A potential crowd-powered delivery system called TwedEx would deliver packages to consumers without requiring them to deviate from normal routes.
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Face-Reading System Watches You Watching Ads
Researchers have developed a system assess how muscles in the face move in response to watching a video.
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Kepler Telescope's Planet-Hunting Days Crunch to a Close
"Kepler was my North, my South, my East and West, my working week, no weekend rest, my noon, my midnight, my talks, my song; I thought Kepler would last forever...
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App Helps Blind Photographers Take the Perfect Snap
Researchers are developing a smartphone application that helps visually impaired users take pictures.
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AI Card Game Knows How to Bend the Rules
A new artificial intelligence system generates new card games from scratch.
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Kinect Plus Projector Makes Anything a Remote Control
WorldKit is a system under development that combines cameras, projectors, and computers to allow everyday surfaces to host controllers for electronic devices.
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E-Tattoo Monitors Brainwaves and Baby Bump
A transparent patch containing electronic circuits as thin as a human hair could be used to monitor rudimentary brain activity.
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Google Glass's Word on the Street Now Easier to Read
Wearable displays post information in users' field of view, but the text will need to stand out from the constantly changing background.
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Crowd Diagnosis Could Spot Rare Diseases Doctors Miss
A new Web-based tool uses crowdsourcing techniques to help solve difficult medical cases.
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Linked Smartphones Catch the Action From All Angles
A new software system that wirelessly links smartphones together enables multiple users to share their phones' features with other devices around them.
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Virtual Traveller: Beam a Live, 3D You Into the World
A new virtual reality system combines 3D glasses and a hack of Microsoft's Kinect to enable life-sized images of people to be recreated in a virtual space.
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Wireless Smart Meter Measures How Much Power You Use
An inexpensive wireless device can monitor the power consumption of home appliances.
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Virtual Reality Creates Infinite Maze in a Single Room
A new virtual reality system enables users to step into a labyrinth and wander an endless maze of rooms and corridors, but without actually leaving their living...
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Software Uses Linkedin Network to Guide Your Career
New software provides career guidance based on the profiles of LinkedIn users.
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Bet You're a Liam--Software Puts Names to Faces
Researchers are investigating whether it is possible to take an educated guess at someone's name with just one look at their face.
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Digital Shrinks Find Depressed Faces and Body Language
Automated systems that analyze gestures and facial expressions could make the challenging task of diagnosing depression somewhat easier.
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How to Find the Right Twitter User in a Crisis
Researchers have developed a way to find people on Twitter who are tweeting useful information during a crisis.
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Curiosity's Discoveries Hint at Life's Cradle on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover has found what it was looking for in its very first taste of Martian rock—much to everyone's surprise.
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Controversial Quantum Computer Aces Entanglement Tests
A few days ago, I held a quantum computer in my hand—or did I?
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