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Books go 3D
Kids in need of a little motivation to read might be persuaded with MagicBook, an augmented reality app that adds music, sounds, video and 3D-like images to paper books.
During Eric Franklin’s demo (see the video below), his iPhone hovered over the pages of “Where the Wild Things Are” as characters from the story came to life on the screen. The four-person company is looking forward to polishing its app before it becomes available later this year.
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Fertility trackers at CES 2015
It’s a paper airplane, it’s a drone…
In the crowded arena of grown-up tech toys at CES, the Carbon Flyer stood out. Built from carbon fiber and shaped like a paper airplane, the drone is controlled by your smartphone and dons a camera for bird-eye video shots.
Thanks to a removable battery, you can keep flying and shooting video all day with extra battery packs. If you’re sold on it, you can pre-order one now through the company’s Indiegogo page, or wait until August when it becomes available to all for $99 (around £65 or AU$120).
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Muse reads your mind to help you relax
NFC luggage tag
eGee wants to give the ol’ lock and key a tech overhaul with its NFC luggage lock. Hardly larger than a regular lock, the eGeeTouch hooks onto your suitcase’s zipper and stays locked until your phone gets in close proximity with the luggage.
For this to work, you ideally need an NFC-ready phone (like most Android and Windows phones) or a programmable NFC case or tag attached to an iOS device. Whether or not this will actually prevent people from breaking your luggage open another way is a different story.
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Sengled Snap puts a camera in an LED bulb
Your phone, fully charged in minutes
Everyone can agree: life with our smartphones would be much easier if we weren’t always chasing the nearest outlet. StoreDot, a small Israel-based company, demoed a modified phone featuring an innovative battery that could be charged up to 100 times faster than current smartphone batteries. At Tech West, implant overdenture the company showed off its newer minimal design, which it hopes to license to device manufacturers.