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Unknown Bestsellers

Supermodel Padmalakshmi is in town this week, according to The Hindu. She has traveled from the east coast of the United States -- just like me -- for a brief visit to the hometown. And that is where the similarity ends. She’s visiting her...

Embedded Electronics Bring Pop-Up Books to Life

Move over Kindle, there's a new type of electronic book on the scene – and this one's got pop-ups. The Electronic Popable book, developed by the High-Low Tech group at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, has electronic circuitry embedded in its pages that transforms...

Vocalizing Science

This past summer, Ari Daniel Shapiro, 30, was part of a research team that tracked killer whales off the coast of northwestern Canada. Every morning, the crew set out to affix sensors to the elusive mammals to capture their vocalizations and movement. Shapiro, whose training...

You’ll buy more from web ads that know how you think

Amid the wealth of information streaming out of websites, banner ads get little of users' attention. For website operators that depend on advertising revenues and online retailers, that's not good news. So could they make those banners more appealing by tailoring the content more closely...

Contact lens to get built-in graphics

A contact lens that harvests radio waves to power an LED is paving the way for a new kind of display. The lens is a prototype of a device that could display information beamed from a mobile device. Realising that display size is increasingly a...

To protect your privacy, hand over your data

Verifying your identity generally comes down to entering one "key" that only you can provide – be it a password, credit card number or RFID tag. That's not good enough, according to a new proposal, which suggests that our digital identities will be more secure...