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Submission + - Why Do We Let the Media Determine our Candidates?

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Paladin144

on Thursday May 10, 2007 @11:36AM

Paladin144 writes: "I've written an article about the mainstream media's tendency to determine the course of our presidential elections by giving favorable coverage to certain "approved" candidates while denying coverage or recognition to other candidates. A perfect example is the recent censorship of Ron Paul and Mike Gravel's respective campaigns in the media while they are exploding in popularity across the web. Will the power the internet provides everyday users revolutionize our electoral system or will corporate interest find a way to limit the damage to their control grid?"

Submission + - Google Eye-Tracking Technology for Physical Ads

Submitted by on Thursday May 10, 2007 @11:34AM

An anonymous reader writes: From MAKE: (http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/05/goog le_unveils_tracking_t.html)

This is sorta scary- billboards that count eyeballs, but that just means someone is going to make an IR array at the right frequency, point it at these cameras and you'll see a whole new type of click fraud...

Google unveiled an eye-counting video camera Tuesday (May 8) that could enable the company to extend its highly successful online business model to brick-and-mortar advertisers.

The Eyebox was developed by Xuuk Inc. (Kingston, Ontario).

Using its PageRank technology, Google (Mountain View, Calif.) has been able to collect revenue from advertisers based on the number of ads on which people are clicking.

Now with the Eyebox, Google can determine which billboards or products people are looking at in mall corridors or on store shelves, and count them in the same manner that Google counts clicks for online ads.

The Eyebox consists of a palm-sized video camera surrounded by infrared light-emitting diodes and a Universal Serial Bus interface. Software running on an attached computer can determine whether someone is looking at the camera by recognizing the "red eye" spot, which only appears when a viewer is looking directly at the camera.

Submission + - Toward the Third Space Age

Submitted by

MarkWhittington

on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @09:16AM

MarkWhittington writes: "http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/159434/to ward_the_third_space_age.html"

Feed OpenOffice.org 2.2 released (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @09:13AM

Touted as a "real alternative" to 2007 Microsoft Office, updated open-source application suite said to address security flaws.

DARPA Planning Liquid Robots 125

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @09:13AM from the where-is-sarah-conner dept.

moon_monkey writes "According to New Scientist, Darpa is soliciting proposals for so-called Chemical Robots (ChemBots) that would be soft, flexible and could manoeuvre through openings smaller than their static structural dimensions. They suggest that it could be made from shape-memory materials, electro- or magneto-rheological materials or even folding components."

Submission + - Researchers Take Step Towards Invisibility Cloak

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @09:09AM

An anonymous reader writes: Researchers at Purdue University have taken the first steps beyond recent theoretical research coming out of the UK to create an invisibility cloak. Their device currently only works for a single color of the visible spectrum. Their goal is create an invisibility cloak of arbitrary size for all visible light.

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Engineers_Create _Optical_Cloaking_Design_For_Invisibility_999.html

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