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Non-threatening CCTV Cameras Shaped Like Dolls Help Japanese Feel Safer
Surveillance cameras can sometimes give you a creepy feeling (especially the ones you can't directly see) but the nation of cute- and friendliness, Japan, now offers two solutions for that problem.
One example of a "friendly" CCTV camera is the Daruma surveillance doll. Daruma is a wish doll in Nippon so that many Japanese people see the little guy in a positive light by nature (even though it says "security camera" on the doll in the video after the jump).
Twitter: Now As Powerful as “The Clapper”
If you can’t get enough of Twitter why not try Twitter-enabling your home? By connecting his cellphone with his Twitter account, Justin Wickett has created what amounts to a remote switch triggered by Twitter messages.
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MTMini: Even Cheaper Multi-Touch
Now that everyone is on the multi-touch bandwagon new systems are popping up all over. Seth Sandler’s solution is fairly ingenious. It uses a piece of paper and a camera to create a camera-based multi-touch interface. All you need is a box, a webcam, and some graph paper and he even includes the demo and application source code.
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CeBIT Highlight: University of Bremen’s Brain-Computer Interface
Here is some video of one of the coolest and most useful technologies we found at the show — a brain-computer interface for the paralyzed. Imagine how much Twittering you all could do with this!
For more info head over to the University of Bremen.
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