Sareen comes from a family of tech-savvy fashionistas who created Tukatech, a firm specializing in digitalpattern making and 3D prototyping systems for apparel makers.
The social networking site has used another copyright filtering program called Audible Magic since February to pick out copyrighted videos based on their "digital fingerprint, " a pattern of pitches in the video's audio track.
The electronic nose is an array of nano-scale gas sensors--the maximized surface area of the nano-particles allows the most gas to pass over them--along with pattern recognition technology that can create a digital fingerprint (or noseprint, as the case may be) of specific smells.
One digital media observer noted in a recent blog post that he saw a similar pattern of discounting and giveaways right before HP killed off its tablet business.
To design the suit gold medalist Billy Demong wore in Vancouver during Nordic Combined, which involves both ski jumping and cross-country, Flanagan and his team created a digital avatar of Demong's body and used computer imaging to determine the most aerodynamic pattern for stitching the suit.