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selfic cube 7100: like a tiny black box recorder for your car

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Nobody wants to get in a car crash. But if you have the misfortune of ending up in a fender-bender – or worse, wouldn’t you like to have a video documenting the entire thing for insurance or legal purposes?

Well now you can, thanks to this little bit of modern technology from Korea’s Selfic Technologies.The…

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August 12th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: digital imaging gadgets gps + navigation mobile tech technology

faceapi: 3d head tracking with any webcam

FaceAPI Head Tracking Software

Here’s some pretty cool news which could provide entirely new ways to interact with your computer or game console. This new technology will enable automated 3-dimensional tracking of heads and faces using a webcam along with some very special tracking software.

Seeing Machines faceAPI is a developers’ toolkit which provides easy head tracking on all…

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March 19th, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing interactive

gps goes postal: could help solve usps delivery woes

GPS Letter Logger for USPS

This new device was commissioned by the United States Postal Service in order to hunt down some of the inefficiencies in their mail delivery process. Developed by California’s TrackingTheWorld, the gadget is slipped inside of a letter, and tracks the precise journey of an individual piece of mail.

The LetterLogger is small enough to be…

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November 24th, 2007 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: gps + navigation strange + wonderful

a cell phone for your dog?

PetsCELL GPS Tracking for Dogs

Mobile phones have become more and more accessible over the years, and now your canine family members don’t need to feel left out.

The PetsCELL phone is a special waterproof cell phone that provides GPS tracking of your pet’s whereabouts, but also integrates voice calling features. Now why, you may ask, would your dog need…

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February 21st, 2007 comments (4) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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be sure to eat your r.f.i.d.

Digestible RFID Tags

The tracking technology known as RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) is showing up everywhere from grocery stores, to shipping containers, to gas station, to toll roads. Now, your intestines can join in the radio wave fun!

Kodak has filed this patent application for RFID tagged capsules that could be swallowed to track activity in a patient’s…

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February 18th, 2007 comments (5) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: future tech strange + wonderful