February 2012
Why Windows 8 is Microsoft’s most vital launch in...
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Microsoft Kinect Games Grocery Shopping at Texas...
Three weeks ago, Whole Foods let lab researchers from Chaotic Moon, a maker of mobile applications, into one of its Austin grocery stores to test out the Smarter Cart. The cart comes with a Windows 8 tablet — attached right around the cart’s handlebars — and a UPC scanner. Using Kinect, it can follow shoppers around the store and even guide them to the products that they’re trying to find. ...
The Sonic Interface Trend [Need To Know: SXSWi]...
One of these trends, we have coined ‘Sonic Interface.’ The pervasiveness of electronics in virtually every aspect of daily life has prompted designers to rethink the way that people interact with their devices and the world around them. The next evolution of natural user interfaces sees voice and audio recognition technologies capable of reacting to spoken commands and audio cues, enabling...
Samsung To Launch Projector Phone @PSFK
South Korean technology company Samsung has announced that it will be launching a new phone called the Galaxy Beam that will project photos and videos to any flat services. The bulb will shine to 15-lumens projector and Samsung says that it can even useful outdoors. via psfk.com
Ebooks: The Giant Disruption | Monday Note
(Part of a series) In the last twelve months, I’ve never bought fewer printed books — and I’ve never read so many books. I have switched to ebooks. My personal library is with me at all times, in my iPad and my iPhone (and in the cloud), allowing me to switch reading devices as conditions dictate. I also own a Kindle, I use it mostly during Summer, to read in broad daylight: an iPad won’t...
Don’t Call It A Comeback: How Carriers Could Take...
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Charge Your iPhone While It’s In Your Pocket With...
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Branch - A community where conversations are king
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Betaworks CEO John Borthwick: ‘Google Has Taken...
To which Mr. Borthwick responded: “Ev. I was thinking today about your note re: Google. I think Google has taken the blue pill — the integration of all of its products into a single seamless whole is been driven by business priorities not by users needs. Its the portal all over again. Hardware is a valid point of platform integration — but think the web or more specifically the ...
John Chambers on the future of Cisco — Tech News...
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Usability Testing with 5 Users (Jakob Nielsen's...
After the fifth user, you are wasting your time by observing the same findings repeatedly but not learning much new. via useit.com
NthCode Wants To Bring The Internet To Everything...
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Report: Video Accounts For Half Of All Mobile...
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Voice Recorded Updates Let You Tweet Without...
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Are books and the internet about to merge? | Books...
For centuries the book has been the highest symbol of knowledge. The object that has enshrined and preserved knowledge through history. The book is so inextricably linked with our concept of knowledge that for many people it is hard to separate one from the other. But for human knowledge to reach its full potential, we may have to let go of the book-as-object first, or open our thinking to a...
Touchscreen Panel Can Recognize Multiple Users At...
The Gunze touch panel uses electrodes around the edge of the display and could accurately distinguish who is touching the screen and register multiple users. The touchscreen prototype was recently unveiled at the 11th International Nanotechnology Exhibition & Conference in Tokyo, Japan. The panel was developed for arcade table games where multiplayer tracking is essential, for example...
Tea Leaf Nation | Making sense of China through...
via tealeafnation.com Tea Leaf Nation bills itself as an online magazine that wants to inject the voice of Chinese citizens into news about the country
LukeW | Why Mobile Matters
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8 Unexpected Downsides of the Switch to E-books
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Personalized News Timelines - Michael Zimbalist...
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Wanna Manage The Innovation Process? Focus On...
A well-defined innovation process will encompass an entire “end to end” innovation capability, including these phases: • Trend spotting and scenario planning • Gathering customer needs and market insights • Generating ideas using the scenarios and needs as guideposts • Evaluating, prioritizing, and selecting ideas for further development • Prototyping and piloting ideas •...
MoMA | Talk to Me | Here & There
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Peanutty
Peanutty! was created by Jared Cosulich as a way to make it easier for people to learn how to program while having fun. via peanutty.org
Bing for Windows Phone gets Bing Vision scanner,...
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In South Korea, Kinect and RFID power an augmented...
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Narrative Science Uses Twitter To Create Automated...
Much easier to have a computer track this down for you — and then ask the computer to write up a story about it, too. That’s what Narrative Science, the start-up that specializes in robot-written stories, did earlier this week. The result isn’t elegant, but it gets the job done, in a brute force sort of way. via allthingsd.com
Makego turns your iPhone / iPod Touch into a toy...
Makego turns your iPhone / iPod Touch into a toy vehicle. via makegotoys.com
Kinect-Powered Online Banking Logs You In With...
The Lithuanian company ETRONIKA has developed a Microsoft Kinect-based online banking application that recognizes your face and voice to log in to your account and lets you control options with gestures. via psfk.com
Spray-On Antenna Can Turn Anything Into A Cell...
Utah start-up Chamtech has introduced a spray-on antenna at Google’s ‘Solve for X’ conference that could be an interesting development in improving cell phone reception. The signal booster in a can apparently covers a surface in nanocapacitors that align themselves to create a sort of wireless antenna. The company claims the product would work on a number of surfaces including walls, trees,...
4 elements that make a good user experience...
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669048/4-elements-that-make-a-good-user-experience-into-something-great
Build Platforms
Move Beyond the Screen
Seamlessly integrate data
Empower the User
Field Guide to Web Apps
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Yesterday, the Chrome Developer Relations team launched several new resources, including the Field Guide to Web Applications. It’s a new resource that is designed to help web developers create great web apps. We’ve heard loud and clear from users that they want more and better web apps, and we hope this new field guide will enable you to create those web apps. Our fictitious...
elearnspace › Openness: Why learners should know...
He then distills the hacker way down to five key principles: Focus on impact Move fast Be bold Be open Build social value Reform, rhetoric, and change In education, we have decades of reform rhetoric behind us. I have never heard someone say “the system is working”. There appears to be universal acknowledgement that the system is broken. Classrooms were a wonderful technological...
Service to link physical objects through dedicated...
Regular readers of Springwise may remember our article last year on ifttt, an application that aimed to enable users to link and automate certain online activities. Now hoping to achieve a similar goal offline, we recently came across EVRYTHNG, a new service which connects physical objects through a digital dialogue. via springwise.com
“The future of Google Search, though, could be a very different story. In an...”
– Google Knowledge Graph Could Change Search Forever
New EPUB spec gives tech companies the edge |...
I agree with you conceptually, but I think this plays out differently in “the real world.” While EPUB2 was easy enough for anyone to do with an old pair of scissors and a paperclip, the larger publishers farmed out the service to offshore vendors for about $75/$100 for a straightforward book. They’ll still farm it out, paying up to $500/book. That’s inconsequential compare to print costs (I’m...
Mobile Sites vs. Apps: The Coming Strategy Shift...
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, February 13, 2012 Mobile Sites vs. Apps: The Coming Strategy Shift Summary: Mobile apps currently have better usability than mobile sites, but forthcoming changes will eventually make a mobile site the superior strategy. The most important question in a company’s mobile strategy is whether to do...
The end of paper changes everything - The Domino...
February 13, 2012 by seth godin Subscribe to our free email newsletter. We’ll update you once or twice a week, and we’ll never rent or sell your email address to anyone. Thanks. Not just a few things, but everything about the book and the book business is transformed by the end of paper. Those that would prefer to deny this...
Foursquare Solves A Basic UI Problem That Eludes...
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Information Does Not Want To Be Free
He was referring to the power of networks - the wealth of networks. Human networks amplified by the Internet. What networks do is that they take the traditional “distribution” roles associated with information - production, marketing, promotion - and push those to the edges, the nodes, as opposed to a centralized source. And they do so in more transparent, non-hierarchical...
The Once-Hot Textbook Rental Market Is Already...
Considering the many revolutionary internet phenomenons that started on college campuses, it’s amazing that the colleges themselves have been slower than, say, the movie, music, or media industries to undergo major disruption in the way they deliver and share information. With e-textbooks, that’s about to change. via pandodaily.com
Investing in Disruptive Technology to Compete for...
via pandodaily.com To keep up is a perpetual investment as innovation is constant and it’s only increasing. We are becoming a culture rife with ingenuity. Entrepreneurialism is contagious. The startup way, or the “hacker life” is introducing new mindsets and models and it inspiring all who taste it to code, design, build, invest, and take risks. Even President Obama is calling for attention...
Four Trends to Trickle Down the Mountains From...
Here are four trends buzzed around the Summit that could spur the next wave of innovation: Technology fuels an education revolution. Catalyzed by cloud computing, online video, and the lower cost of tablet PCs, a crop of new initiatives are set to change the way the world learns. Four notable examples are: Free classes: Khan Academy, with its mission to “provide a free world-class education...
It's time for a unified ebook format and the end...
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On iPads and Personal Computers: A Post-PC...
via macstories.net Post-PC empowers people to work and be entertained thanks to new interfaces and easy access to apps. The post-PC device is different from a netbook because netbooks didn’t really revolutionize anything; unlike Apple’s, devices from the competition fail at empowering people because they lack the software ecosystem. Post-PC is the ecosystem of devices and services. Hardware...
Lego Office Is As Much Fun As Playing With Legos |...
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Map of London by cocktail bars
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How do robots see the world? - Robot readable...
via vimeo.com How do robots see the world? How do they gather meaning from our streets, cities, media and from us? This is an experiment in found machine-vision footage, exploring the aesthetics of the robot eye.
Very early stage thinking around Perceptive Media...
So what is Perceptive Media? “It takes narrative back to something more aligned to a storyteller and a audience around a campfire using Internet technologies and sensibility to create something closer to a personal theater experience in your living room…” via cubicgarden.com