Novelties: A Cozy Book Club, in a Virtual Reading Room
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Social networks that tap the interests and buying power of traditionally reserved groups like the bookish are a small but growing force on the Web.
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Also: Virtual golf takes over cubicle life. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at Web sites or buy things online.
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Researchers in England and Switzerland use video cameras and virtual-reality goggles to make subjects observe "themself" from elsewhere in the room. They learn: "The brain can trick itself."
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Another book publisher makes inroads toward the digital side of content.
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A free web-based tool is launched that allows people to build a virtual world in less than a minute.
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The artists at a Swedish design firm experiment with "drawing" personalized furniture in a room space. The invisible lines are captured by a camera, computerized and the sketches are translated into 3-D digital files and materialized through Rapid Prototyping.
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Computer-based matching system helps students to find the most compatible roommates.
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From ringtones to bloglets to short-blast video games, today's amusements comes in bite-size morsels. A tasty Wired magazine report on instant entertainment.
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Fans of open-source programming and multiplayer gaming explore ways to bring the concept of the metaverse -- an infinitely expandable virtual world -- closer to fruition. By Daniel Terdiman.
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Join Oprah's book club for the reading fun, and invest with the author's proteges.
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Titled 'The Entrepreneurs Guide to Second Life,' the book is a how-to guide to building a profitable business in the popular virtual world.
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Researchers are devising new (and hopefully better) ways to interact with Tablet PC's and other pen-based computers.
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New site doses social networking with literate lists. Plus: Is
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New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in information technology--and what they mean.
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Il mondo virtuale in 3D avra' anche un magazine di moda
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Multifunction devices, workgroup printers, and a new digital pen debut.