The impulse to hand over navigational control to readers in a digital book is considerable.
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Projects like Arbreole, intelligent lights that react to your movements powered by an Android phone, OpenVibe, a brain to computer interface allowing you to control a video game, Evolving Cities, an open digital platform designed to help create resilient neighborhoods, and SAMI, an innovative multi-function, mobile semi-humanoid robot created by the CRIIF, all received funding from Cap Digital but were also chosen for their potential to be commercialized.
The idea of this framework is to not only establish a digital identity, but also to provide individuals control over ownership and sharing of their data on the internet.
Among its most recent products include a watch than can receive global positioning system location information, one that doubles as a TV remote control, and one that plays MP3 digital music files.
"When we first introduced SYNC in 2007, there was a need for an appropriate way to connect and control cellphones and digital music players in the car due to the massive consumer adoption trend, " continued Thai-Tang.
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Equally serious, there is a high risk that on a day-to-day basis, digital records will not survive unless control systems are applied.
With iTunes commanding the majority of the digital-movie download market, the studios have made a bid to control their own fates by developing a competing cloud service called UltraViolet.
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In fact, (and this will get me a lot of nasty-grams), between the sophistication of available GPS-based information and new-generation digital flight control systems, hand-flying is pretty much becoming a lost art.
The cover story of the current issue of Forbes is on a subject near and dear to my heart: how the digital age is changing reputation control.
Another element that might concern some companies, according to Cable Digital News, is a "monitor application" that the cable company uses to control how devices use processing resources.
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This is a major escalation of the battle between Amazon, probably the underdog, and Apple for control of digital media distribution.
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Creative Labs, a digital camera maker, now also bundles motion-detection features into its software, letting a PC control multiple cameras and zoom in on a suspect's face.
With digital and analog inputs, an easy-to-read-and-stack control console and a wireless remote, the Logitech Surround Sound Speakers Z906 let you take charge of your entertainment.
Nuance's voice technologies complement the evolving digital TV experience that Samsung is pioneering with its 2012 lineup of Smart TVs featuring Voice Control as a part of its Smart Interaction offerings.
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"At the end of the day, I keep telling myself that we're really a victim of capital market conditions that were beyond our control, " says Joseph Cece , chief executive officer of Digital Access (nasdaq: CACS - news - people ), a Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
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