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January 20 2012
2012: The Year for Digital Darwinism
Very good post by Brain Solis
The ability to recognize new opportunities is perhaps the greatest challenge rivaled only by the ability to execute. Emerging and disruptive technology is now part of the business landscape and customer lifestyle. Innovation, trends, and hype is not going to stop. In fact, it will only amplify. The capacity to identify and consider new solutions and responses is critical. It must be supported by innovative collaboration and decision-making processes and systems to assess and react. Innovation must be perpetual.
As Charles Darwin once said, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”
#AdaptorDie
January 18 2012
Augmented Reality Heads Up Car Display From Pioneer
More from #CES2012
I personally feel this could be distracting, but hey I am not a fighter pilot whom are already using such technology.
July 29 2011
The Mobile Eye Exam
Netra a radically low cost mobile eye diagnostic from MIT Media Lab that allows anyone with a smart phone and NETRA clip-on to take their own eye exam and receive a prescription for glasses. Our aim is to empower hundreds of millions around the globe by democratizing access to health care, starting with eye care.
“The software can determine a person’s vision prescription on the spot, making quick, inexpensive diagnoses of refractive vision errors a reality.”- Pop-Sci
“As it turns out, it could prove the ideal device for conducting eye tests.”- New Scientis
November 22 2010
PayPal Creating TV-Commerce
Paypal have announced that they will putting paypal ecommerce on TV’s in the very near future.
Today, I’m happy to say we’re one step closer to equipping every living room in America with T-commerce powered by PayPal.
Osama Bedier, VP of platform, mobile and new ventures at PayPal
This in a way is going to offer the same technology that Sky has been offering to purchase extra films and services, with the added complexity of linking each advertised item with a Product ID for purchase.
I can’t wait for this to hit the real world too, with the use of mobile.
Via Paypal blog & @RubbishCorp
November 18 2010
WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson
It’s going on my Xmas list for sure.
Amazon
November 09 2010
Google Zeitgeistminds
Collection of inspirational videos.
November 05 2010
Min.us Simply Share
Neat site that you drag and drop pictures from your desktop and create galleries to then share with others via a URL.
October 26 2010
The Balloon Race is back
Remember the Balloon race across the internet that Poke created in June 2008 and what a great success it was… Well it’s back in the form of play balloonacy, as before you sign up your site and race with some fab prizes from Orange
October 22 2010
Doritos 360 Interactive YouTube Video
This is pretty cool, letting the user click and drag around to see a full 360 view while the video is playing.
Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/doritosuk
found via Daniel Leppanen
3D mobile display that interacts with the user.
This device uses magnets in the pen and screen to trigger interactions which feel like your in the 3D space, the examples below show a lizard sticking out his tongue and the user retracting the pen, what is happening really is a magnetic field is triggered when the lizard sticks out his tongue making the pen move away from the screen.
Interesting project which could be used as a learning tool.
October 21 2010
Google Demo Slam
This is a creative way to inform you about Google technology via Google Demo Slam
I believe once a week you get to see two demo’s and you choose which is the best.
Sorry Chubby Bunny I choose Rushmore
see it in action here
October 20 2010
Google Leanback
Leanback is a new way to experience YouTube on a big screen. They named it “Leanback” so the viewer could do just that: kick back and, with as little effort as possible, enjoy hours upon hours of YouTube videos. When you go to www.youtube.com/leanback, you’ll notice that videos start playing immediately, are always presented in full screen and HD (when available), and you can easily browse using just the arrow keys on your keyboard.
Just start typing and a search bar appears, press enter and you have a selection of top rated videos to choose from on a bottom scrolling navigation.
October 14 2010
Interactive Mirror
This Mirror is being marketed as a ‘Mirror reflects our fantasies‘ , it’s a nice bit of kit, but come on…
The mirror acts as a portal so you can check flight status, your mail, the weather etc, all this data can be access via the cloud as well.
The big fail in my view is the lack of touch screen, I can see why you wouldn’t want to smear your lovely mirror, but surely there is anti smear tech out there, using the controller (looks like a TV remote) or your smart phone feels clumsy to me.
Take a look and make your own assumption.
It also checks ‘your health data‘, ermm, I think they mean weight, you know like a normal scales would.
found via Kev
October 05 2010
Google TV
World domination is coming … Mhawhahahaha.
Seriously though, this is great news, I have been talking about this for a while, TV viewing with integrated online social behavior.
At home my wife and I both watch TV, but guaranteed she will be on the laptop and I will be on my iPad at the same time, of course there will still be a need for multiple devices because we interact with different content, but its a big move forward.
Move aside traditional TV the future is coming.
Google TV
September 27 2010
September 16 2010
Talking Tree
Talking Tree – Making of from Tom on Vimeo.
A 100 year old tree in Brussels was rigged with a box which had a fine dust meter, ozone meter, light meter, weatherstation, webcam and microphone.
This box reported the tree’s living circumstances live to Twitter, Flickr, Soundcloud and you friend it on Facebook to see its updates.
talking-tree.com
August 13 2010
Augmented City [in 3D]
via Katie
July 20 2010
July 19 2010
Kodak Pulse
This is a great innovation, give the Kodak Pulse to your love one (you know your mum & dad) and if like me your living in another country you can update this photo frame via your mobile or the web, so they will always have updated photos of you and your family.
All for $129.95
The basics:
It’s done via wifi, so you link the picture frame with your router and online account and then it sync.
From the Kodak site
You know how good it feels to come home to find an unexpected gift from a friend? That’s the same excitement you get every day with the KODAK PULSE Digital Frame. Now everyone can send pictures right to your frame, giving you continuous surprises. Adding your own pictures is easy too. It doesn’t slow you down with time-consuming software setups or complicated technology. It makes connecting with friends and family simple, so you’ll always have new pictures to relive and enjoy.
Easily see new pictures on your frame more often
* Create your own e-mail address for the frame to easily receive new pictures
o Send pictures from a computer
o E-mail pictures from mobile phones as soon as they’re taken—perfect for sharing on-the-go
* Adding your own pictures to the frame from your computer is incredibly simple
* The PULSE automatically links to friends and photo albums on FACEBOOK and KODAK Gallery sites, so you can see new pictures on your frame when they’re posted
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