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Android’s first killer feature: Compass Mode - Apple 2.0NEW YORK - With a built-in keyboard and Google’s open-source Android platform, there may be many things the new T-Mobile G1 can do that Apple’s iPhone can’t. But at its long-awaited unveiling in New York City Tuesday, one feature stood out: Google Street View in Compass Mode. Until now, you ...
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RFID and Identity Management in Everyday LifeThis is the final deliverable for the STOA project RFID & Identity Management, which was carried out by the Dutch Rathenau Institute as part of the European Technology Assessment Group (ETAG), the STOA framework contractor’s network of scientific institutes. The purpose of this deliverable is to ...
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Gigantic City-Structures of Paolo SoleriWhatever happened to the future? It's still around, of course, mostly in Europe and Japan, but over the years the Fantastic World of Tomorrow's gotten ... cheaper, simpler, and -- most tragically of all -- the future's gotten too damned small. Luckily there are a few visionaries left who aren't ...
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Japan Issues E-PassportsWithin the next 12 months, the country expects to dispense more than 3.5 million electronic passports containing RFID chips. Mar. 28, 2006—Last week, Japan started issuing its first electronic passports (e-passports). Every five-year, 10-year and diplomatic passport the government issues will ...
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E-health closer to reality thanks to real-time medical data extractionIn the framework of Holst Centre, IMEC - Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute - has broadened the functionality and scope of its wireless health monitoring technology by linking it to real-time extraction of relevant medical data. The new technology builds upon the ...
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Coming soon: 'wallet phones' from JapanAmong the wireless innovations Japan hopes to peddle is the wallet phone. The technology relies on a tiny computer chip called FeliCa, embedded in each cell phone, which communicates with a reader-device at stores, train stations and vending machines for cashless payments.
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Billboards with facial-recognition software trickling outPutting cameras in billboards to measure how many people look at them isn't a new idea, but it's starting to get a little more creepily-high-tech, with several advertisers now using facial-recognition software to record things like age and gender. A company called Quividi has supplied ...
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Billboards with facial-recognition software trickling outPutting cameras in billboards to measure how many people look at them isn't a new idea, but it's starting to get a little more creepily-high-tech, with several advertisers now using facial-recognition software to record things like age and gender. A company called Quividi has supplied ...
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