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Teste Touch Posted: 2 years ago by MissWinkle
An art installation where the user's touch and the temperature of the environment makes two giant testicles retract and descend.
Comments: 6 Score: [-] 708 [+].
Key Found to Making Robots Human-Friendly Posted: 2 years ago by DrNothing
Humans revel in touch. Touch-spoiled babies grow up healthier; lovers can't keep their hands off each other; and people who master the subtle touch are perceived as friendlier; and THAT could also be key to making robots accepted by humans as social peers, scientists say. (Is it me, or does that demonstrative pic just look 'wrong')
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 131 [+].
Study: You Touch It, You Buy It Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
You've heard of "you break it, you buy it," but what about "you touch it, you buy it?"
A new study suggests that just fingering an item on a store shelf can create an attachment that makes you willing to pay more for it.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 178 [+].
Don't touch the art? Louvre exhibit lets visitors break the rules Posted: 2 years ago by bevissimo
The Louvre's Tactile Gallery, targeted to the blind and visually impaired, is the only space in the Paris museum where visitors can touch the sculptures, with no guards or alarms to stop them. Its latest exhibit is a crowd-pleaser: a menagerie of sculpted lions, snakes, horses and eagles.
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 313 [+].
Touch Of Grey Posted: 3 years ago by Mershaullk
The music video for the Grateful Dead's "Touch of Grey".
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 8 [+].
Want to Type Faster? (Not Another Touch Typing Course) Posted: 3 years ago by asssa3000
Your typing speed sucks? Too many typos? You feel like getting better but are too lazy to go through touch typing courses and would prefer playing some games instead? If that’s Yes, Yes and Yes, you should check out these fun and addictive games to boost your typing speed.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 34 [+].
Microphone Turns Wooden Board into Touch Sensitive Input Device Posted: 3 years ago by sparky
Some software and cheap microphones is all that is needed to turn a wooden board into a touch sensitive input device. The video is pretty impressive.
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Needies Need You Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Needies are interactive plush dolls inspired by codependent, high-maintenance relationships.
Totally attention-starved, they compete with each other for human affection -- or, getting touch, as they like to say.
When you give Needies touch (by hugging and squeezing them), they will return your kindness with songs and shameless flattery.
But remember that Needies always know when other Needies are getting touch! If one Needie is getting touch while others are neglected, the unloved Needies will conspire to take its place.
Comments: 19 Score: [-] 465 [+].
Has iPhone Started A Touch Screen Mobile Phone War? Posted: 3 years ago by Rogue
The iPhone is still months away but the competition is already rushing to unveil some ‘iPhone killers’.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 7 [+].
Flexible Touch Screen Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
The user can merge in and collaborate with technology more than ever. He can squeeze out information and fly through rooms, he can form three-dimensional and put objects in motion by deforming the surface. Four short applications allow an insight into an absolutely new world of deeply sensitive and intuitive interaction possibilities.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 262 [+].
Seven ways to fool your sense of touch Posted: 9 months ago by dollyllama
IMAGINE you are lying in the bath with your toes poking out of the water. A drip starts to form on the tap; you watch as it grows, then drops onto your big toe. Ooh! Not pleasant - but was the drip boiling hot or icy cold? It's impossible to tell.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 593 [+].
Meet the iPhone Killer - The Diamond by THC Posted: 2 years ago by hmtksteve
Just unveiled at a lavish event in London, HTC—maker of the sleek Touch for Sprint—has a new touchscreen gem on its hands.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 11 [+].
Did the First Lady Break Protocol? Posted: 8 months ago by dollyllama
The rules are set in stone, and so the eagerly watching British media sputtered when the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, briefly put her hand on the back of Queen Elizabeth II as the two chatted at a reception. Etiquette is quite stern about this ("Whatever you do, don't touch the Queen!").
Comments: 16 Score: [-] 631 [+].
Skittles - Midas Touch Posted: 2 years ago by beckinacea
Everything he touches turns to Skittles.
Comments: 3 Score: [-] 211 [+].
Dan Rather finds bugs in voting touch screens Posted: 2 years ago by Bornbad
"In the basement area, where we end up putting a lot of our materials… I probably hauled 50 dump truck loads of cats, rats, and snakes and all types of debris."
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 24 [+].
Professional Touch-up website Posted: 2 years ago by melgesevad
Check out the portfolio section for some examples of their touch up work. Its truly amazing what things they change.
Comments: 12 Score: [-] 389 [+].
Inborn Empathy - In Other's Shoes Completely Posted: 2 years ago by maxriter
Scientists study a rare condition called mirror synesthesia in people who can feel the touch just by looking at other person being touched.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 22 [+].
Holograms That You Can Touch and Feel Posted: 4 months ago by suebe
A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo led by Hiroyuki Shinoda has developed a display that lets users "touch" objects that appear to float in space in front of them.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 574 [+].
Apple Sued Over Exploding iPod Touch Posted: 9 months ago by Bornbad
A Kentucky kid got an unwelcome surprise recently when his iPod touch exploded in his pants pocket. The incident prompted his mother to file suit against Apple and the retail workers who sold her the device.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 161 [+].
Taxi Rides in NYC Going High-Tech Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
To taxi officials, the touch-screen monitors popping up in cabs help passengers make the most of the 13 New York minutes spent on an average ride.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 44 [+].
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