Distracted? Slap this Hitachi gizmo on your forehead to focus
If you're looking to sharpen your mental focus, Hitachi has developed a wearable brain activity sensor designed to improve learning skills.
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Artist creates a geometric rave in a chapel for The House of St Barnabus
Swirling patterns of multicoloured prisms are projected onto the smooth curved stonework and religious iconography of the chapel.
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Kovert Designs launches vibrating ring that alerts you to important emails
UK startup Kovert Designs today launched a range of wearable devices that can be programmed to alert a person if they receive an email or a phone call from a particular person.
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To 'read' this fashion magazine, you fire up an image-recognition app
Persona is one of the latest fashion magazines in Tokyo. It's printed on heavy stock paper and is full of photos of models and clothing. The only thing missing is text.
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MICA attempts to show that smart cuffs are more fashionable than smartwatches
Most smartwatches treat women's fashion as an afterthought, but it's the focus of a new smart band from Intel and Opening Ceremony.
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Gizmosphere is a 'Raspberry Pi with high-end graphics'
Open-source computers have so far lacked good graphics, but Gizmosphere's new Gizmo 2 is an exception – featuring an AMD graphics core.
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Raspberry Pi Model A+ cuts size, power and price to only £20
The Raspberry Pi project has squeezed a bit more juice out of the world's greatest educational and hobbyist computing platform, producing a new Model A+ that shadows improvements made in the Model B+ announced in July.
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Dell to put depth-sensing 3D cameras in more Android, Windows devices
Dell will bring virtual reality to more Windows and Android devices next year, replacing 2D cameras with depth-sensing 3D cameras.
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Oculus Rift VR headset launch is waiting for the perfect controller
A popular maxim is that you should never let the perfect become the enemy of the good. In other words, just ship your dang product already. That admonishment appears to fit perfectly with Oculus VR and its much-anticipated Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.
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Teenager's low-cost Braille printer gets investment from Intel
13-year-old Shubham Banerjee had to borrow money from his parents to create his first low-cost Braille printer, but he won't need to rely on the kindness of friends and family for more cash any time soon.
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November 2014’s visual trends: peach, pigments, panning shots and raunchy fashion
This month you should be drawing inspiration from fetish fashion, Gone Girl’s lighting, muted mauves and a truly extraordinary music video for Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar.
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NEoN digital arts festival goes back to the future
The 6th edition of NEoN is taking place in Dundee, with events, screenings and parties following a Futureproofing theme
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HP's Sprout shows the future of how we might interact with computers
HP's Sprout is an 'immersive computing platform' combining a screen, touchpad, projector, scanner and stylus.
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These Victorinox Swiss Army Knives feature custom artworks
Saktory's Swiss Army Knives features a huge choice of artworks across 14 types of knife.
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Microsoft Kinect could hold key to stroke patient recovery, finds professor
Sufferers of facial palsy could be helped by gaming technology including Microsoft Kinect, which tracks movement and voice commands, a research team at Nottingham Trent University have found.
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16-player pirate party game seeks gold from scurvy digital swabs
Hidden Armada's kickstarter campaign aims to bring multiplayer pirate co-op game Mutiny! and innovative second-screen controller app to life
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The 11 oddest gadgets we saw at the Ceatec tech show in Tokyo
From phone-controlled dinosaurs to sign-language speaking androids, here are the most out-there new technologies we saw at Ceatec 2014.
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Google Glass app offers speech-to-text conversion for the deaf
Georgia Tech scientists have created an app that creates captions on Google Glass for partially or fully deaf users.
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This 3D printer prints skin – and it's just won a prize named after James Dyson
A 3D printer that can use a patient's own cells to print skin grafts, including hair follicles and sweat glands, has won a scientific design competition.
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Lucy Sparrow's fun felt Cornershop comes to the seaside in new exhibition
See Lucy's brilliant fuzzy grocery recreations in month-long show at Brighton's No Walls Gallery.