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Refrigerator Magnets: There’s an App for That

There’s an iPhone app for pretty much everything these days, except in the physical world. That’s why Jailbreak Collective created an app that lets you hang a photo on your refrigerator or tack up your kid’s latest masterpiece. Ok, so maybe it’s not an app at all, but it looks like one. Here’s a set of iPhone app magnets from JC that look just like the real thing.

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Minority Report Input Device Created Using Wireless Gloves

Two Electrical Engineering students from MIT have designed a new input device that behaves similar to what was seen in Minority Report. It’s called the Glove Mouse and was actually inspired by the movie.

Tony Hyun Kim and Nevada Sanchez wanted to bring what they had seen and make it a reality. The wireless gloves, which are powered by a cell phone battery, each have LEDs on the back of the index finger which is captured by a webcam. There are also buttons under the index fingers, middle fingers and thumbs. All the information is transferred a another unit via RF and is then sent to the computer.

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