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Augmented reality has been called the eighth mass medium, after print, recordings, cinema, radio, television, Internet and mobile phones. By reaching out to media companies, the industry, which was a collection of smartphone apps generating less than $2 million in 2010, is on the verge of becoming a real business worth perhaps US$1.5 billion in 2015.
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A mobile phone application developed by a group at Canterbury University is ensuring pre-quake Christchurch is always at people's fingertips - and soon what the future may look like.
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Dargaville inventor, Vernon Suckling, took out the Fieldays Golden Standard innovation award for his Lifeguard anti-crush roll over system for quad bikes, which judges believed had "massive" international appeal.
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A major Kiwi agri-tech company is bucking the trend of outsourcing to China by keeping manufacturing at home, and is keen to share its 'lean' philosophy with other local businesses.
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Cybercrime cost New Zealand an estimated $625 million last year and it it's a growing problem, with more than 2,000 people affected every day.The Government, in partnership with Netsafe, has launched a new initiative to raise awareness of cyber-security risks and to help individuals and small businesses protect their online information.
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Fitting your house with a network of Kinect sensors could mean never losing your wallet, TV remote or other small items again.
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New Zealanders with accounts on the networking site LinkedIn are being told to change their passwords immediately amid fears that millions of encrypted passwords have fallen into the hands of hackers. Reports say up to 6.5 million passwords may have been stolen and posted to an internet forum.
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Hundreds of millions of people across rural Africa depend on hand pumps for their water supplies. But it is estimated that around one third are broken at any given moment, and in remote areas, repairs can sometimes take up to a month. Now UK researchers have developed data transmitters that fit inside hand pumps and send text messages if the devices break down.
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You could say that Deborah and Chris Chester are following their dream. Their company, RimPro-Tec, exists because of a dream Chris had in which he invented a protective covering for car wheels so they wouldn't get damaged when they rubbed against the kerb.
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Want to find a job? That's not a problem if you are trained as a technician and looking for work in China or Brazil. Ditto for sales representatives, who are in hot demand in Taiwan and Hong Kong. In Japan, engineers won't sit idle. Meanwhile, in Ireland, IT workers are needed. In the Netherlands, it's laborers. Even with unemployment running at an historic high of 8.1 percent in the US, don't worry if you are a plumber, welder, or electrician. There's plenty of demand for your skills.
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The American SpaceX company's Dragon cargo capsule splashed down in the ocean off the California coast.The return to Earth completed a historic first mission to the International Space Station (ISS) by a privately operated vehicle.
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When the Kinect was introduced in November 2010 as a motion-control add-on to Microsoft's Xbox consoles, it drew attention from more than just video-gamers - the feaures that enabled a gamer to throw virtual footballs or kick virtual opponents without a controller was seen as an important step forward in controlling technology with natural gestures.
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DIY fans are being warned not to trust the weight rating given to ladders unless it's clear they meet official safety standards. An Auckland man was seriously injured when a new ladder he bought online collapsed beneath him.
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Twenty projects have been recognised in the 2012 New Zealand Architecture Awards. Proving that design quality is not governed by the size of buildings or type of work, winners in the country's leading architectural awards programme ranged from the Auckland Art Gallery to a Napier artist's studio, from a chapel in an inner-city church to a café on the side of a mountain, and from an airport hotel to a lakeside school. Photo-gallery.
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Using only her thoughts, Massachusetts woman Cathy Hutchinson, who has been paralysed for 15 years, directed a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee and bring it to her lips - the latest advance in harnessing brainwaves to help disabled people.
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