Smartmarker allows you to share whiteboard marker strokes digitally over its app.

The "Smartmarker" from Equil uses your pre-existing whiteboard and allows you to share your marker strokes digitally over its app. Say goodbye to crowding around a whiteboard trying to capture notes with your smartphone camera. The Equil Smartmarker can share meeting output with a team via mobile apps and works with standard whiteboards and markers while packing away in a part of a laptop bag. The dry erase board has been the birthplace of many a business breakthrough. Over the past year, ...
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Robo Wunderkind is high-tech variant of LEGO

Robo Wunderkind is a LEGO-like robotics kit that teaches kids the basics of coding with fun app-enabled programming. Robo Wunderkind, a modular robotics kit developed by a Vienna-based startup, Like other robot kits on the market, it’s designed to teach kids the basics of computer programming through drag-and-drop apps. But unlike most of the kits out there, Robo Wunderkind is a modular robotics kit that sort of resembles a high-tech variant of LEGO. The kit comes as a set of blocks. Ea...
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YOXO Innovative and recyclable company that inspires kids to build their own toys

YOXO ("yock-so") is the sustainable, recyclable, invent anything you can imagine toy company. YOXO's building sets inspire kids to design and build their own toys using recyclable Y, O, and X-shaped links that connect in countless ways with everyday household materials like paper towel rolls and cereal boxes. YOXO even links with other toy building sets including LEGO®, KRE-O® and Mega Bloks®. YOXO toys are manufactured from recycled wood pulp in the company’s wind-powered Minnesota worksh...
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3D Hologram Technology – soon to come products – TV, emails, Games, Interactive devices, virtual meetings…

Hologram or Holography is a technique that allows the light scattered from an object to be recorded and later reconstructed. The image changes as the position and orientation of the viewing system changes, thus making the recorded image (hologram) appear three dimensional. While this technique is able to create 3D holographic picture of a static object since the 1960s, Research and Development at Intel, IBM, ARM and Nokia promises that in five years, it will be available on Mobile Phones to prod...
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Cool robot that kids can program and have fun

Sphero SPRK Edition App-Enabled Ball Learning can be fun – get hours and hours of action packed entertainment as you learn with the Sphero SPRK Edition App-Enabled Ball. This smart gadget helps to teach code so you can alter and combine commands with ease. Using the easy text based code viewer, you can configure Sphero SPRK in the app to teach this clever robot to roll, flip, spin, and even change color, all with your control. Available for all ages, the Sphero SPRK Edition App-Enabled Ball u...
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PIXELIO Transforms Your Smartphone into a 3D Scanning Planetary Arm

A new UK-based startup, Smart 3D Company, Ltd., has come out with an innovative and easy-to-use device that, combined with a smartphone, will allow users to scan small objects in 3D, as well as take pictures or shoot 360° time lapse videos. The device is not only useful for photographers or 3D printer users, but also architects, engineers, graphic designers, bloggers and many more. PIXELIO, in combination with free software installed on your smartphone (eg. Autodesk 123D Catch), will allow us...
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Aerion Mouse

Aerion Mouse is a gesture-driven computer mouse that’s somewhat smaller than traditional mice. It gets placed between the top of any two of the user’s fingers. The user then points the mouse at the display to operate it and, instead of clicking on any buttons, just leans to the left to achieve what a typical left click on a mouse would and leans to the right for a right click. One main benefits to Aerion is that it allows one to keep fingers close to a typing position without having to grab a se...
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ORNL’s hybrid device combines microscopy and mass spectrometry

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have created a hybrid optical microscope/mass spectrometry-based imaging system capable of observing and analyzing specimens simultaneously. They have created a hybrid optical microscope, which also features a mass spectrometry-based imaging system. This new device paves the way for advance developments in the areas of chemical and pharmaceutical sciencesThe new device does not require any type of pretreatme...
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Tanvas allows you to feel what you see.

Tanvas’ surface haptics technology allows you, for the first time, to feel what you see on a touchscreen, the edges of keys, the snap of a toggle switch, the swipe of a turned page or the direction and magnitude of impacts in a game. The company is poised to change the way people interact with touchscreens across essentially every industry, from automotive to education, from retail to medical, from consumer electronics to industrial applications. The technology sends ultrasonic sound waves th...
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Oxygen found on Comet

For the first time ever, molecular oxygen has been found on a comet. Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, currently being orbited by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, is the subject of a study published in Nature. According to ESA researchers, the oxygen present in the comet's surrounding gasses has likely been there since the formation of the comet. "It is the most surprising discovery we have made so far, because oxygen was not among the molecules expected in a cometary coma," the Un...
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Latest Intuos Tablets Make Creative Dreams Come True

Wacom®, the world leader in pen-based creative tablets, introduced its next generation Intuos® product family to empower and inspire creative enthusiasts. The new range of Intuos Pen & Touch tablets consists of four models: Intuos Art, (for beginners with a passion for creativity), Intuos Comic, (more advanced painting and artistic skill) Intuos Photo (for photo editors who want to try new creative techniques) and Intuos Draw. (For comic and manga enthusiasts). Each model includes free...
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MIT System- Learning spoken language

System learns to distinguish words’ and phonetic components without human annotation of training data. MIT researchers have developed a revolutionary new machine-learning system that can learn to distinguish spoken words and unlike its predecessors, it can also learn to distinguish lower-level phonetic units, such as syllables and phonemes. Every language has its own collection of phonemes, or the basic phonetic units from which spoken words are composed. The English language has somewhere...
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Scientists paint quantum electronics with beams of light.

A team of scientists from the University of Chicago and Penn State University have accidentally discovered a new way of using light to draw and erase quantum-mechanical circuits in a unique class of materials called topological insulators. Researchers may be able to "paint" quantum electronics with beams of light. The electrons in topological insulators have unique quantum properties that many scientists believe will be useful for developing spin-based electronics and quantum computers. Howev...
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Soft robot to swim through Europa’s oceans

A soft, swimming robot for exploring Jupiter’s moon Europa. A Cornell engineering team has received a nine-month, $100,000 starter grant from NASA to develop a soft, swimming robot suitable for exploring the harsh conditions of other worlds, notably Jupiter’s moon Europa. An amphibious robot that can swim through the oceans of distant moons and planets could be the next iteration of self-sustaining, robotic space exploration. The Cornell team developing this otherworldly robot is led by Ma...
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‘Hackaball’ turns programming into play.

A smart and responsive ball that children can program to invent and play games has been created. A team of industrial designers is aiming to turn "programming into play" with a hackable ball that lets kids invent their own games. "Hackaball is a tough, responsive, programmable ball that pairs with an iPad app," explains William Owen, from innovation consultants Inside it is a gyro, an accelerometer, a vibration motor, nine LEDs, a rechargeable battery, some memory and a speaker. That...
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Object recognition through flexible machine learning.

At the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, MIT researchers will present a new way of doing machine learning that enables semantically related concepts to reinforce each other. Machine learning, which is the basis for most commercial artificial-intelligence systems, is intrinsically probabilistic. An object-recognition algorithm asked to classify a particular image, for instance, might conclude that it has a 60 percent chance of depicting a dog, but a 30 percent chance of ...
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ScanMarker – The incredible digital highlighter.

Scanmarker is a pen-shaped digital highlighter. Just slide it across any printed text, and it instantly transfers the text into any application on your computer. The pen tip is clear and relatively slim, allowing the user to see what he/she is scanning. It feels similar to a pen in your hand, but as you move over sentences on the page, it will scan them and type them onto your computer. It can retype text 30 times faster than manual typing, and your computer will read out loud what you have scan...
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Cicret wristband turns your arm into a touch screen

The new revolutionary bracelet, Cicret projects emails, videos and games and turns your arm into a touchscreen using a tiny built-in projector. Wearers of the of the Cicret bracelet will be able to check an email or watch a film that’s projected onto their forearm, and control the picture by using their skin like a touchscreen. It will also be possible for users to pair it with an existing smartphone, answer incoming phone calls and activate the speakerphone functionality on their smartphone. ...
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Interact with real objects by reaching through your screen.

Unreal MIT invention Inform - allows you to reach through the screen and touch things. Recently unveiled, inFORM is MIT's new scrying pool for imagining the interfaces of tomorrow. Almost like a table of living clay, the inFORM is a surface that three-dimensionally changes shape, allowing users to not only interact with digital content in meatspace, but even hold hands with a person hundreds of miles away inFORM can also interact with the physical world around it, for example moving obj...
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‘Osmo Numbers’ Takes the Fear Out Of Figures

iPad Game System Osmo wants to make learning math fun. Osmo, the clever educational gadget for iPads, got a new game. Numbers teaches math with special tiles. Aiming to make math fun and engaging, Osmo Numbers offers multiple ways to solve each puzzle and real time feedback. Numbers is an under-the-sea themed game where players have to come up with equations that equal a given integer using physical tiles. If they are successful, a trapped fish is freed from a bubble. As numbers appear ...
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Breakthrough technology for hearing impaired

MotionSavvy is putting forward a device to help the hearing impaired listen and speak. UNI, a sensitive tablet that interprets sign language and turns it into text and audible voice. There are plenty of things to take for granted in this life, and the ability to hear is one of them. MotionSavvy, is building a tablet case that leverages the power of the Leap Motion controller in order to translate American Sign Language into English and vice versa. The entire 6-person team is deaf. Known...
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The Combi Monitor: The Screen That Prints

The combi Monitor is a screen that doubles up as a printer as well. The latest sleek design of the Document Extractor Combi Monitor, puts touch screen controls, paper scanning, and smart screen printing harmoniously into one computer body. This new device boasts a 27" display with a graphical user interface designed for simple touch-screen use. This monitor is just not a convergence product which is combined of printer and scanner but has the solution for saving our precious working times ...
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Next generation intuitive programable robot

NAO is a 58-cm tall humanoid robot developed by ALDEBRAN Japan. It's a programmable robot that can function based on AI and app(function based) like program. Aldebaran created NAO to be a true daily companion. He is the little creature who helps you be your best. His humanoid form and extreme interactivity make him really endearing and intuitive Dedicated communities of developers have recognized potential for the robot to be a powerful and incredibly expressive medium for creating applica...
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Drawing in the third dimension

Storybooks and graphic novels could soon be three dimensional. A new software platform from small business Mental Canvas reimagines drawing in the digital age. The company has introduced a new concept of picture books and graphic novels which are not flat two dimensional but could let us spin the whole story in a three dimensional setup. The company believes that digital illustration does not enhance the sketch value whereas if the image is presented in 3D, it acts as a communication tool ...
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NOAA’s Science On a Sphere is a room sized, global display system

Novel and revolutionary Science On a Sphere® (SOS) is an educational tool that uses computers and video projectors to help illustrate Earth System science to people of all ages. This tool has been developed by Dr. Sandy MacDonald along with researchers at NOAA. Unique and captivating, it's been used in science museums, visitor centers, zoos, aquariums, laboratories, and schools around the world. It consists of a spherical projection system created by NOAA which presents high-resolution vid...
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Unique 3D Pen that Draws In The Air

3Doodler is the world’s first 3D printing pen. The pen, created by science inventors Max Bogue and Peter Dilworth is called the 3Doodler, and allows the user to draw in the air. It does not require any software but simply needs to be plugged into an electrical outlet for use. This pen has been fed into with colorful plastic thread. The thread is then extruded as heated plastic that cools and solidifies instantly as it exits the tip. This allows solid 3D structures to be drawn on any surfac...
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