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    FolkMapping with FoundCity

    Combining this whole folksonomies thing with Google Maps, FoundCity is a new group mapping tool for cellphones. Ok, ok, maybe that sounds all too familiar, but what makes this one different is the ability to tag the physical space, not just the virtual one. As in, when you're walking around the city and see street art you like you can attach it to pre existing tags (i.love.you, street.art), or start your own tags, like "acupuncture.videos" that go in a citywide database — like del.icio.us for the city. Then when you're online you can check out where and what other people are tagging—and then like all of these apps, get one step closer to dating them.

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    Virtual Hugs

    Though it may look like it gives more than, uh, just hugs, Mark Argo's Hugms lets you give someone a friendly squeeze through your cellphone. Sent as a text message, the longer you squeeze the more of a 'hhhhhhhuuuuuuuuuggggggg' the other person gets. A short, hard squeeze gets a  'hhHHUUUUUUugg". If both people have them, the Hugms will glow a warm color when squeezed. And then of course there's the group hug, letting you get all emo with all your friends at once.

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    SMS Advertising Hits the Streets

    Mysteriously, an enormous banner showed up on Canal Street here in New York this past week that urges you to send a text message to '46691' with 'innw?' in the message. Turns out, it's Doritos ad that responds, "Doritos: what does 'innw?' mean? U culd win cul stuf frm Doritos, incl ipods, DigiCams, DVDs + mor! Reply w/ur best guess what it means now." Then you're rerouted to a website and have to enter a series of codes to see if your response is right. We just spent the past six hours entering in different guesses, who doesn't want cul stuf? [Thanks, Ian Curry]

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    The Thrill Measuring Device

    Well, it was about time someone did it. Brendan Walker, from the Royal College of Art, recently designed and built a body-mounted machine that detects thrill levels and takes a snapshot of your face during peak moments. The project stems from ongoing collaborative with MIT to create a Thrill Measuring Device that could be used to tailor video games and amusement park rides that react directly to personal psychological information, and the device works by detecting the Galvanic Skin Response, or GSR levels from the skin at the user's fingertips. When they reach a certain level, the camera is activated. A series of photographs of people, uh, enjoying the machine is on view at the M + R Gallery in London from February 19th to the 27th.

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    The Interactive Tablecloth

    Without any real explanation of how it works, designers at the Royal College of Art in the UK have created a tablecloth that glows whenever an object is put on it. The halo slowly expands the longer the object is left in place. They say the idea is meant to raise "issues about the desirability of using technology to emphasise existing behaviour," something which we know has been keeping all of you up at night.

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    Real-time augmented-reality

    This augmented-reality system, created by scientists at Oxford University in the UK, promises to make it easier to virtually decorate interiors, plan engineering work, or help robots navigate more efficiently by generating digital scenery which can be inserted into live video footage. The digital scenery, kinda like video wall paper, works in real-time by calibrating itself to the dimensions of one object in the room. From this, the computer can build an accurate 3D representation of the immediate environment and then insert virtual 3D objects. In the example pictured at right they're using the system to scope out different potential furniture layouts. [Via Near Near Future]

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