August 2011
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WatchRuss Chimes - Midnight Club EP (Part 3: Targa)
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The Smartest Cities Will Use People as Their...
Via Scoop.it - Future By networking individuals and their gadgets, urban apps will tell inhabitants what is happening all around them, in real time… Show original
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Service 2020: Megatrends for the decade ahead
Via Scoop.it - Future In the future consumers will select those organisations who can demonstrate they known their customers well and who offer service levels which stand out. Organisations who fail to align their service to meet customers’ needs will risk losing… Show original
Route to 2015 | Think Quarterly by Google
Via Scoop.it - The Future Google’s President of Americas Sales keeps a relentless focus on the future of advertising. Here’s what he sees. Show original
Smartphones 'powered by walking'
Via Scoop.it - Future Taking a stroll may soon be enough to re-charge your mobile phone, after US researchers developed a way to capture energy from human motion. Show original
"Skin-Like" Electronic Patch Takes Pulse, Promises...
Via Scoop.it - Future A web of miniscule wires woven into an adhesiveless silicon patch could provide a future where heart monitors are nearly invisible, prosthetics can feel pressure and video games can take verbal commands… Show original
Bionic man fitted with video camera prosthetic eye
When Rob Spence lost one of his eyes in a shooting accident, he’d have been forgiven for feeling sorry for himself. He didn’t, instead he dedicated his life to becoming a cyborg. Rob says he thinks it’s going to happen: “People are going to have the option of having superior arms, superior eyes at some point,” he said. And as we know, many one-time sci-fi...
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Sony: emotion-reading games possible in ten years
Via Scoop.it - Future Sony’s executives believe that in ten years’ time, video games will have the ability to read more than just movement on the part of the player: “Having a camera being able to study a player’s biometrics and movements [is possible] so perhaps you can play a detective game that decides whether you’re lying due to what it reads from your face,” said Mike Hocking, a senior...
Awesome New Startup Could Change How You Read...
Via Scoop.it - Future “Booktracks is a startup that could transform your reading experience forever. Like movies have soundtracks, now books can have soundtracks.”It’s difficult to imagine a movie with no soundtrack. Yet, until today, the technology did not exist to synchronize music and sound within an e-book,” Paul Cameron, Booktrack’s co-founder and CEO...
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WatchRuss Chimes - Midnight Club EP (Part 1: Never Look Back)
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“The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will...”
– Steve Jobs, 1985
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WatchRuss Chimes - Midnight Club EP COMPLETE TRILOGY
+ part1: “Never Look Back”
+ part2: “Tertre Rouge”
+ part3: “Targa” Director: Saman Keshavarz
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Paris airport testing 'holographic' staffers
Via Scoop.it - Future Being told your plane is about to board could get a lot more pleasant, if other airports around the world follow France’s lead. Paris’s Orly airport is testing virtual boarding agents using what officials there are calling “2-D holograms.” Paris-Orly has been testing the virtual displays out for about a month now, and, as you can see in a video, they...
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Continuum is a user-generated fashion collection. I call it computational couture. It is the application of interactive technologies for bespoke design. In short, an app lets you draw a dress, turns it into a 3D model, and exports a cutting pattern to make the real dress, sized to your measurements. A laser cutter or plotter cuts the pattern out of fabric, which is then sewn into the dress....
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IBM says new chip mimics the human brain
Via Scoop.it - Future Big Blue’s new cognitive computing chips are designed to combine ‘digital neurons’ and ‘on-chip synapses’ and could enable applications that tackle some of the thorniest problems in computing. While it’s too early to say exactly what kind of applications will be powered by the new chips, Modha suggested that they will likely tackle some of...
Virtual touch helps surgeons to 'feel' tumour
Via Scoop.it - Future Tactile feedback technology could give keyhole surgeons a virtual sense of “feeling” tumours while operating. Engineers have designed a device that simulates pressure on a surgeon’s hand when touching human tissue remotely. This could enable a medic to handle a tumour robotically, and judge if it is malignant or benign. Show original
New IBM Chip Borrows Brain’s Computing Tricks
Via Scoop.it - Future IBM has unveiled an experimental chip that borrows tricks from brains to power a cognitive computer, a machine able to learn from and adapt to its environment. “Each neuron in the brain is a processor and memory, and part of a social network, but that’s where the brain analogy ends. We’re not trying to simulate a brain,” said IBM spokeswoman Kelly Sims. “We’re looking to the...
IBM produces first working chips modeled on the...
Via Scoop.it - Future IBM has been shipping computers for more than 65 years, and it is finally on the verge of creating a true electronic brain. Big Blue announced that it, along with four universities and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have created the basic design of an experimental computer chip that emulates the way the brain processes information. IBM’s so-called...
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