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Turn your scanner into a chessboard!

I love this. Jeff Breidenbach at Xerox PARC has written a piece of software that turns a scanner into a chessboard — automatically reading the location of the pieces for the chess software.


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I'm Clive Thompson, the author of Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Penguin Press). You can order the book now at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Powells, Indiebound, or through your local bookstore! I'm also a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a columnist for Wired magazine. Email is here or ping me via the antiquated form of AOL IM (pomeranian99).

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