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YouEye's Cheap Eye Tracking Lets Brands Use Your Webcam to Watch What You Watch

Thanks to the ubiquity of webcams and the magic of crowdsourcing, companies can now evaluate user experience on their websites in minutes--and for just a few bucks. YouEye, which launched this week, promises the fastest, cheapest, eyeball tracking yet. READ»

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Laptop Webcams to Double as Desktop Heart Docs Thanks to MIT

MIT discovers yet another use for a simple webcam: measuring your pulse rate. It's desktop video-chatting and heart physician in one tiny unit.READ»

MIT's Neverending Drawing Machine Hints at the Future of Education

Kids learn differently than when you and I were in school, and if research coming out of MIT's Media Labs is anything to go by, in the future they'll learn in tech-boosted ways that are incredible. Witness: The Neverending Drawing ...READ»

Old Media's "Next" Innovation and the Unauthorized New York TimesRoulette

If you're a gambling man, I would put a fiver on a lot of Web-based April Fool jokes tomorrow being ChatRoulette-related. Andrey Ternovskiy's idea has, over the past three months, made a lot of pervs very happy indeed--not to mention ...READ»

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Webcam Job Interviews: How to Survive and Thrive

Get ready for your close-up. As more companies cut recruiting costs, you're likely to encounter the newest hiring twist: the Webcam interview. We help you put your best face on disk.READ»

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Augmented Reality Game Plus Facebook Equals Gaming for the Future?

Social networking and augmented reality are the tech buzzwords du jour--but what happens when you mix the two up? You get the casual game Cannonballz from Zugara. And it's a little taste of how gaming might go in the future. The ...READ»

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In Japan, Billboards Watch You Watching Them

NTT Communications has tackled the age-old problem of working out who's paying attention to which sign-based advertising by making the sign watch back. The Japanese company will run an experiment where webcam-equipped digital signs ...READ»