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Shippo: a mood controlled cat tail from Japan

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By Kuan Huang in New Products on Monday 11 February 2013

Shippo, which means ‘tail’ in Japanese, is a mechanic tail controlled by brain waves which literally interacts with your mood. This gadget captures your brain waves, and interprets the signals into waving patterns. Shippo wags ‘soft and slow’ when the person is relaxed, and ‘hard and fast’ when the person is concerned.

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Feelytics: this app helps you share your feelings

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By Kuan Huang in Tech on Saturday 9 February 2013

Feelytics (stands for feel plus analytics) is a new iPhone app that creates a community for people to talk about their feelings comfortably. The app uses expressive emoticons to help people identify their current emotional state. Once a user picks an emotion, he or she can publish it, either publicly or privately. The app creates [...]

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Ditology: the remarkable finger portraits of Dito Von Tease

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By Kuan Huang in New Trends on Saturday 9 February 2013

Finger painting is popular among children. But artist Dito Von Tease has transformed it into an art style and named it Ditology. He took pictures of his index finger and turned them into immediately recognizable famous faces. His portraits include depictions of Barack Obama, Steve Jobs, Hello Kitty, Micky Mouse and others

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Black and white street photography by Yuchen Chiu

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By Kuan Huang in New Photography on Saturday 9 February 2013

Yuchen Chiu is one of my favorite New York City street photographers. She shoots most of her photos with black and white 135 film. Her photos are not only poetically beautiful but also carry the weight of history and fact and reflect the versatile facets of place, such as New York City, Havana, and Rome, [...]

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Interactive performance piece tells the story of the rebirth of Taiwan Lin’s Mansion

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By Kuan Huang in New Illustration on Friday 8 February 2013

The Mirage Theater is an interactive performance piece telling a story of the death and rebirth of a historical landmark: The Lin’s Mansion in Wufeng, Taiwan. Fourteen years after it was heavily damaged during the earthquake in 1999, The Lin’s Mansion was rebuilt as a local theater. The Mirage Theater was shown in December 2012 and consisted of dancing, [...]

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