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  • The Future of Video Game Input: Muscle Sensors
    By on November 5, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    Motion control and multi-touch have become common in devices ranging from Nintendo’s Wii to Apple’s iPhone. But a muscle-sensing system could someday allow gamers to play air “Guitar Hero” without a controller, or help harried parents with full hands open car doors.

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  • Are Wii Balance Boards the Future of Airport Security?
    By on October 11, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    Homeland Security funds a project to explore using Wii balance boards in airport security screenings.

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  • Reinventing Fire: Quest 2 Foster Future Free of Fossil Fuels
    By on October 5, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    What will it take to secure a future free of fossil fuels and transition to efficient and renewable energy that is not just economically viable, but profitable? “Put simply, we intend to reverse the past quarter-millennium’s dominant global way in which people get and use energy,”…

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  • For Brazil, Olympics mean the future finally has arrived
    By on October 3, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    For the longest time, a joke about Brazil made the rounds in the halls of international financial organizations: Latin America’s largest and most populous nation had a great future and always would.No one’s laughing anymore, as Brazil joined the ranks of the big-boy countries after Rio de Janeiro , a city known for sun and sin, was named the..

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