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By MARIE BORAN

Google’s Project Glass vision of the future

WATCH:Just when we'd got used to enunciating carefully (read: shouting) at Apple's Siri voice control feature, Google has come up with the conceptual, but apparently to-be-released later this year, Project Glass. This involves augmenting your smartphone with a voice and gesture activated pair of glasses that projects a user interface in front of your eyes. It looks slick, but do glasses wearers need a prescription version?

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Croí HeartWise for iPhone and iPad

INSTALL:Our super smartphones give us the ability to measure almost everything about our health and fitness so the "quantified self" movement is really taking off. Here's a nice little app from the heart and stroke charity Croí and a fourth-year medical student at NUI Galway. Croí HeartWise takes input on diet, alcohol and nicotine consumption and sets physical exercise goals. It's also able to tell you how much you'll save over time if you gave up the ciggies and booze.

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Scistarter.comand be a citizen scientist

BOOKMARK:With the BBC's Stargazing Live, Brian Cox got us out staring up wistfully at the sky and wondering why we didn't study astronomy in university. Cheer up, you can still be a scientist. Well, a citizen scientist. At Scistarter.comthere are loads of projects you can contribute to, for example, birdwatching ones that contribute to conservation and data gathering. Wonderful!

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Top 10 dinosaurs that aren’t what they were

READ:"What does a velociraptor look like, Mammy?" Be honest, you're thinking of the smart ones in Jurassic Park, covered in scales and with the uncanny ability to open lab doors. Or maybe you knew this was incorrect and they were really covered in beige and orange feathers.

In which case you won’t need to visit Listverse when confronted by your children. Clever girl.

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