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NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program
By Staff, New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program
For those who lament their cell phone's silence, your wait is over. Students at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) have come up with the Popularity Dialer, a web interface that calls whatever number you want it to (including yours) whenever you want it to. The ITP is 'dedicated to exploring and expanding the ability of real people to use media to connect one another.' Other recent projects include T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land represented in binary code and the MoPod, a backpack-like strap that holds an iPod and speakers for those on the go. -- Nick Rose
http://itp.nyu.edu/itp/flash/projects

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A tiny strip uniquely situated at the intersection of Africa, Europe, and Asia hosts the biannual migration of some half a billion birds. Unfortunately, this avian airway exists directly above Israel, within a dense and near-constant concentration of low-flying military aircraft. Millions of dollars in damaged planes and the human and bird casualties caused by collisions posed a challenge to both Israel's military and its conservation community for decades. Enter Yossi Leshem, a researcher at Tel Aviv University. Equipped with sophisticated weather-tracking radar, a reliable network of bird-watchers, and financial backing from the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Leshem has applied 20 years of his research mapping the paths of the birds to bring the number of harmful bird collisions to a grinding halt and achieve a modest degree of peace above an otherwise chaotic region. -- Evan Noetzel
http://www.conbio.org/cip/article71con.cfm

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