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Parking Jerks Beware!

Posted by Nic Halverson Fri May 25, 2012 09:29 AM ET | 0

Moscow-based online newspaper creates app that aims to humiliate 'Parking Douches' into changing their ways. Read more

Tile Your Wall With Video Screens

Posted by Rob Pegoraro Thu May 24, 2012 02:57 PM ET | 0

A demo suggests one way to make enormous TVs not insanely expensive. Read more

Facebook Hangers Tell You What You Should 'Like'

Posted by Nic Halverson Mon May 7, 2012 03:06 PM ET | 0

Hangers show shoppers what's popular by displaying an item's Facebook 'Likes.' Read more

Facebook Hangers Tell You What You Should 'Like'

'Touchy' Shows Us How Out Of Touch We Are

Posted by Nic Halverson Sat May 5, 2012 08:16 AM ET | 0

Artist's camera helmet commemorates those rare moments of actual human contact. Read more

'Touchy' Shows Us How Out Of Touch We Are

Bar-Coded Condoms Track Where You Have Sex

Posted by Nic Halverson Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:32 PM ET | 0

QR-coded condoms link to a website so you can map where you had sex. Read more

Bar-Coded Condoms Track Where You Have Sex

Journalism Jobs Robo-Sourced

Posted by Nic Halverson Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:07 AM ET | 0

Journalists everywhere bury their heads in their hands. Read more

Keyboard Jeans Are True 'Laptop'

Posted by Nic Halverson Thu Feb 16, 2012 05:58 AM ET | 0

Beauty and the Geek pants create the ultimate "jeans and keyboard sandwich." Read more

Kinect-Powered Amusement Park Will Blow Your Mind

Posted by Nic Halverson Mon Feb 6, 2012 03:52 PM ET | 0

"Live Park 4D Art Factory" blurs the line between reality and virtual reality. Read more

Kinect-Powered Amusement Park Will Blow Your Mind

Social Media More Addictive Than Booze and Cigs

Posted by Nic Halverson Sat Feb 4, 2012 09:53 AM ET | 0

Are your urges to 'check in' causing your willpower to 'check out'? You're not the only one. Read more

Social Media More Addictive Than Booze and Cigs

Super Bowl Ads Aim For Your 'Second Screen'

Posted by Nic Halverson Thu Feb 2, 2012 10:22 AM ET | 0

Advertisers are trying to score a touchdown with potential consumers by throwing Hail Mary's to digital devices. Read more

Super Bowl Ads Aim For Your 'Second Screen'

View Life Through Browser-Equipped Shades

Posted by Nic Halverson Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:23 AM ET | 0

Lumus envisions you checking email using their glasses. Read more

View Life Through Browser-Equipped Shades

Liquid Silver Used to Print Electronic Circuits

Posted by Jesse Emspak Mon Jan 16, 2012 03:10 PM ET | 0

Printing your own electronics gets a little closer, using silver as the base for an ink. Read more

Liquid Silver Used to Print Electronic Circuits

Contact Lens Monitors Blood Sugar

Posted by Jesse Emspak Sat Jan 7, 2012 10:47 AM ET | 0

A contact lens could help diabetics leave painful glucose tests behind. Read more

What's Your 'Sound Perfume'?

Posted by Nic Halverson Tue Dec 13, 2011 02:32 PM ET | 0

These eyeglasses emit a unique fragrance and play a song as soon as you encounter a friend. Read more

Transparent Tablet Does the Twist

Posted by Nic Halverson Thu Dec 8, 2011 12:08 PM ET | 0

Samsung envisions future electronic devices as transparent, shape-shifting and bendable. Read more

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