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Gizmo

23 April 2008

Imagine twisting your computer to switch applications, or bending it to scroll down a page. As flexible displays and electronics are expensive, researchers at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, . When you try to bend or twist it, the sensors increase their resistance in response, and these changes are converted into software commands.

A brainwave-monitoring headset powered by body heat and sunlight has been created at the in Belgium. A thermoelectric material turns the temperature difference between a warm head and the surrounding air into electricity.…

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