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Sunday, January 16, 2005 |
Communicating via a pair of chairs.
Smiles in Motion ,
by Danish artists Kjell Yngve Petersen & Karin S ndergaard, are a
set of chairs designed for augmented relationships between two people,
enabling them to converse with each other by turning speech into
movement.
 
Speech and sounds produced in the audible spectrum by the two
visitors are converted into vibrations, through motors placed in the
seats of the chairs. As a visitor is perceiving what is spoken in the
form of vibrations, he is also shown the mouth of the other visitor on
a monitor fixed in a globe. The visitors "hear" each other through
vibrations, synchronized with the images of the movements of their
mouths. And so may converse through vibrations and smiles.
8:51:46 PM 
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Minimalist Radio The Mouseradio from Germany 
How to design a radio without buttons.
The Mouseradio from Germany is a fully functioning radio without
buttons. The idea was to use the mouse navigation and to implement it
in a radio. Moving the radio vertically changes the volume, moving the
radio on the horizontal axis changes the frequency being tuned to. The
radio is on, when the black speaker points up in the air.
Here's the video.
8:50:36 PM
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Verizon Hunting Line Cutter.
Man with power saw on loose in MA. Verizon is offering $50,000 on
information leading to the arrest of someone who's been cutting their
lines in Massachusetts. According to the Boston Herald, someone's been
taking a power saw to their lines; three times since November
8:49:03 PM
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Radio Broadcasters Mull Digital Music Stores Radio broadcasters are considering
technology and business models that may soon allow listeners to
click, listen and buy the tunes they hear on their favorite
radio stations.
8:31:27 PM
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Dispute in Japan over press freedom.
Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper stands by a report that Japan
Broadcasting Corp. bowed to political pressure and changed a story on
World War II comfort women. '
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Motorola Gain from Samsung's Pain? Motorola Inc. may have gotten a
Christmas present from rival cell phone maker Samsung -- the
Asian company was slow to beef up its product portfolio in time
for the holiday season, giving Motorola's newest feature-rich
phones an edge, analysts said.
8:18:38 PM
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