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Can companies beam advertisements into my brain?
You're out shopping when suddenly a voice tells you to buy the product right in front of you. Brilliant gimmick or creepy invasion of personal privacy?
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How Anti-shoplifting Devices Work
A fascinating article that examines the variety of anti-shoplifting devices being used by retail businesses and how these systems and devices work!
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How Electronic Ink Works
Electronic ink promises to be an amazing, breakthrough technology that we will all be using in five years -- it will completely change books and newspapers. Learn all about it.
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How Energy-efficient Electronics Work
Your appliances use electricity all day, whether you're there or not. Some manufacturers are helping consumers out by making their electronics more efficient.
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How Facial Recognition Systems Work
How unique is your face? Learn how facial recognition systems can pick a face out of a crowd, extract it from the rest of the scene and compare it to a database of stored images.
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How Holographic Environments Will Work
Holographic environments make the virtual world truly tangible. Find out about the development of real-life, interactive "holodecks"!
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How Location Tracking Works
Location tracking is one of those double-edged swords of technology. It can help find people in an emergency, but it can also make your whereabouts known to strangers. Where are these systems starting to appear?
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How Psychotechnology Works
Psychologists have created a number of tools to help them delve deeper into the mysterious human subconscious. What are these tools, and do they really work?
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How RFID Works
Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are part of a tracking system that uses intelligent bar codes to track items in a store. First used to monitor livestock, these devices now appear in countless stores across the country.
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How Speech Recognition Works
Speech recognition technology allows people to compose documents and control their computers using their voice. It can be used in homes or businesses, for a variety of uses.
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How UPC Bar Codes Work
Nearly every item that you purchase from a grocery store, department store or mass merchandiser has a UPC bar code on it somewhere. Ever wondered why?
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Should you consolidate all your technology into one device?
As electronics become smaller and more functional, you can do more things with fewer devices. But is putting all that technology in one device a good idea?
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Top 5 Scary Technologies of 2008
Technology has changed our lives, mostly for the better. But what happens when our inventions get the better of us? The results can be devastating.
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