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Tag: location

Where am I (exactly)? In search of the “egocentre”

April 2, 2014 Martin Gardiner

If you have a GPS-enabled cellphone, it might be able to tell you (and some other interested parties) where you are, down to a metre or so. But for more accurate estimations of exactly where ‘you’ are – in the perceptual consciousness sense – there’s a new research project which may help. It was undertaken […]

Research NewsI, location, me, myself, where, Where in Your Head?

Estimated toilet-flush substance’s journey

February 13, 2011 Marc Abrahams

The Flush Tracker web site claims to: “[tell] you where your flush goes once it disappears down the toilet…. In which countries does it work? Flush Tracker is currently available in the UK, Ireland, South Africa and Poland.” The web site shows a moving image based on an “estimate” of where and how fast the […]

Arts and Scienceestimate, flush, journey, location, toilet
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