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Students Design An AR Device To One-Up Google Glass External-link
Four U.K. design students develop sensory perception prototypes that give users superhero-like vision and hearing. The strange thing about Google Glass is and isn’t its lame design. Google has produced something that, however clumsily, genuinely attempts to alter the body’s sensory perception....
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This Mask Gives You Superhuman Abilities External-link
Fans of "Iron Man," take notice: A group of students at the Royal College of Art in London have created two masks that can give you superhuman sight and hearing The first prototype covers the wearer's ears, mouth and nose and uses a directional microphone to give him the ability to hear an isolated sound i...
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Touchscreen Gestures Reimagined as Sculptures External-link
Touchscreen gestures on gadgets have become second nature to many of us — so much so that even babies have tried to swipe physical magazines and books, before realizing they don't work that way. In an era when kids become intimately familiar with tablet and smartphone devices at a young age, designer Gabri...
Syfy Bets $105m on a TV Series and Video Game External-link
At the risk of stating the obvious, $105 million is a lot of money. That’s about what Comcast and NBCUniversal have shelled out on the new Syfy series and video game Defiance, a hybrid unlike anything you’ve seen on television. I mean your computer. Wait, make that your PlayStation. Look, it&...
Can This Design Student Build An Open-Source Alternative To GPS? External-link
The fledging Open Positioning System uses seismic frequencies generated by factories, turbines, and power plants to triangulate your location. Maps are power. Those who draw them control the public’s access to the world at a fundamental level--for example, in the 1500s, maps of the lucrative New World t...
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