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May 18, 2012
"Though the Internet promises greater democracy, virtual engagement is every bit as disembodied as the couch potatoes of the 20th century who passively engaged politics through TV and radio. Until someone figures out how to create a rocking good time on Facebook, don’t bet money that the Internet is the savior of elections."
— Why The Internet Doesn’t Make Us Care More About Politics | TechCrunch
May 15, 2012
(via Brazilian fashion retailer displays Facebook ‘likes’ for items in its real-world stores | Springwise)
May 15, 2012
“In a few years’ time, you’ll be able to buy a TV that covers an entire wall, acting like wallpaper,” NDS chief marketing officer Nigel Smith told Wired. In this way, the TV could take the form of a gigantic canvas, providing layers of additional information, as well as different levels of immersion.
(via Beyond Smart TV: ‘Surfaces’ Prototype Reveals the Television of Tomorrow | Gadget Lab | Wired.com)
May 11, 2012
"For most of the 20th century,lectures provided an efficient way
to transfer knowledge. But in an era with a perfect video-delivery
platform — one that serves up billions of YouTube views and millions
of TED Talks on such things as technology, entertainment,and design — why would anyone waste precious class time on a lecture? We propose embracing a flipped-classroom model, in which students absorb an instructor’s lecture in a digital format as homework, freeing up class time for a focus on applications, including emotion-provoking
simulation exercises. Students would welcome more opportunities
for case-based, problembased, and team-based exercises — strategies that activate prior knowledge. Teachers would be able to actually teach, rather than merely make speeches."
to transfer knowledge. But in an era with a perfect video-delivery
platform — one that serves up billions of YouTube views and millions
of TED Talks on such things as technology, entertainment,and design — why would anyone waste precious class time on a lecture? We propose embracing a flipped-classroom model, in which students absorb an instructor’s lecture in a digital format as homework, freeing up class time for a focus on applications, including emotion-provoking
simulation exercises. Students would welcome more opportunities
for case-based, problembased, and team-based exercises — strategies that activate prior knowledge. Teachers would be able to actually teach, rather than merely make speeches."
— www.um.es/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=c538d7e7-52a4-4f9a-93c7-92ac04c80b06&groupId=115466
April 29, 2012
"IPS could track exactly how many steps you take and how many stairs you climb — and calculate, quite precisely, how many calories you burnt in the process. IPS could keep a perfect record of how many minutes you spend in the gym (and on which machines). IPS could tell you how many hours you spend in bed, commuting, in the office, and on the toilet."
April 25, 2012
April 23, 2012
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The applications of 3D printing are especially mind-boggling. Already, hearing aids and high-tech parts of military jets are being printed in customised shapes. The geography of supply chains will change. An engineer working in the middle of a desert who finds he lacks a certain tool no longer has to have it delivered from the nearest city. He can simply download the design and print it. The days when projects ground to a halt for want of a piece of kit, or when customers complained that they could no longer find spare parts for things they had bought, will one day seem quaint.
The revolution will affect not only how things are made, but where. Factories used to move to low-wage countries to curb labour costs. But labour costs are growing less and less important (…) Offshore production is increasingly moving back to rich countries not because Chinese wages are rising, but because companies now want to be closer to their customers so that they can respond more quickly to changes in demand. And some products are so sophisticated that it helps to have the people who design them and the people who make them in the same place.
"— Manufacturing: The third industrial revolution | The Economist
March 21, 2012
"Tech companies and pundits have trumpeted this sort of thing for years, envisioning a world where smart sensors do everything from regulating your home’s air temperature to flipping the lights on and off. But Atkinson believes we’re finally on the verge of such a world, and he takes the vision a step further, imagining a world filled with things like “smart umbrellas.” Rather than checking the weather each morning for rain, you could buy an umbrella that beeps at you when it’s needed."
— ARM Wants to Put the Internet in Your Umbrella | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
March 1, 2012
"The quest for a high-tech “shopping cart of the future” is nothing new, but Whole Foods is planning to test a new spin on the concept, using Microsoft’s Kinect sensor for Windows. The motorized cart identifies a shopper with a loyalty card, follows the shopper around the store, scans items as they’re placed inside, marks them off the shopping list, and even checks the shopper out in the end."
— Whole Foods prototype puts Kinect on shopping cart, follows people around store - GeekWire
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