The tale of the v-v-v-vibrating shoes“We’re using the shoes as a bit of fun but also to show people that we can output information from a computer in other ways than through a screen,” says Professor Peter Eades. The haptic shoes can be connected wirelessly to live Australian Stock Exchange information, although researchers also use old share price fluctuations for demonstrations.”
ABC
The Health Buddy 2: not a Mac. “What’s important here is that it’s got a big color screen, multiple languages, and, of course, acts as a dedicated interface to Health Hero’s Health Buddy network, through which it can provide patients with internet-enabled health monitoring, clinical information databases, and 45 health management applications. And did we mention it runs Linux?”
Engadget
The computer game you climb upon. “Since the sensors react to climbers presence, the wall can be used by visually impaired kids as well, but it can also function as playground equipment where the grips light up and/or make sounds one after another to guide the child playing on it to the right place. The wall can also function in real competitions-sounds or lights can be activated when the climber makes a wrong move.”
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Hayat Benchenaa Radio Alarm Clock. “When the alarm is set the Sfera dims and the music fades as you fall asleep. When it goes off in the morning, you have to reach up and tap it to activate the snooze. Then the Sfera rises and after 10 minutes goes off again, which causes you to rise up out of bed even more to activate the snooze. This process is repeated until the Sfera reaches the ceiling, which forces you to get up and pull it down to deactivate it.”
Josh Rubin
Hand-cranked CD, paper, and credit card shredder. “Let’s see, you’re wealthy and powerful enough to have important data and documents you want permanently destroyed, but not quite wealthy and powerful enough to afford a shredder with a power cord or battery?”
Engadget
Hybrids? Some opt to go all-electric.“One guy I know plugs his Honda hybrid into a windmill for power,” Kroushl says. “It costs him practically nothing to drive.”
csmonitor.com
navmo’s GPS-less nav pilot launch in London. “Their service is unique, however, in that it’s a straight JAVA WML based app, so for many phones nothing but a page load is required – we presume nav is done on the cell company’s end by triangulating the location of the user from tower to tower, but navmo’s being a bit mysterious about such minutiae as, you know, what their core technology is.”
Engadget
SIMpill: Medicine Bottle with SMS Reminders. “A South African doctor has developed the SIMpill, a pill bottle that uses SMS to monitor how often pills are being taken and can send alerts to a patient’s phone if they have missed a dose by mistake.”
Gizmodo
The table that cooks. “A series of electronic grids are inset within its walnut wood top to allow food mixers, laptops or any other appliances to be powered simply by being placed on the surface, like rechargeable toothbrushes. No power sources nor cords are needed.”
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DAB EPG for Bug Launches – Radio TiVo. “Using the EPG, Bug users will be able to browse the programmes coming up over the next 7-days, read additional information about them and select them for recording. In the same vein as a Personal Video Recorder (DVR), does this make it a DRR – Digital Radio Recorder?”
Digital-Lifestyles.info
Information Wants to be Liquid. “Hegland’s project, Liquid Information, is kinda like Wikipedia meets hypertext. In Hegland’s web, all documents are editable, and every word is a potential hyperlink.”
Wired News
Feature Films Without Wires [at Sundance]. “Intel technicians in Hillsboro, Oregon, encrypted Rize, which was shot on high-definition digital video. The file was streamed to Salt Lake City, then beamed via microwave to Park City and through a WiMax connection to the top of a 10,000-foot mountain. A receiver at the ski lodge sent the file to an HP Media Center PC, where it was decoded and projected through a high-end digital projector.”
Wired News
Bead ‘slashes mobile radiation’. “Using a ferrite bead effectively reduces emissions to the head to zero but as yet manufacturers do not put them on hands-free kits.”
BBC NEWS
MobaHo!: Satellite Broadcast to Mobile Video Report. “MobaHo! — a joint venture of 88 Japanese and Korean companies — is gambling Big Money that Asians will want satellite TV and radio broadcasts beamed from the sky direct to their handheld receivers, cell phones and car-mounted tuners — and maybe even iPods in the future.”
I4U News
Booth for spatial filters. “Spatial filters encapsulate how your features alter sounds before they reach the eardrum. The booth would record the spatial filter measurements on to a smart card, readable by next-generation sound systems. The result – sounds heard through headphones should be indistinguishable from hearing the same sounds live.”
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Machine learns games ‘like a human’. “CogVis observed human volunteers playing a version of the game using cards marked with a pair of scissors, a piece of paper, or a stone. They were also told to announce when they had won or when the game was a draw. After watching for several rounds, CogVis was able to call the outcome of each game correctly.”
New Scientist
Mobile learning game/ “Waag Society is developing Frequency 1550, a “mobile learning game”. The citygame, using mobile phones and GPS-technology, will transport 11 to 12 year-old students to the medieval Amsterdam of 1550.”
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Search Engine Users. “Nearly half of searchers use a search engines no more than a few times a week, and two-thirds say they could walk away from search engines without upsetting their lives very much.”
Pew Internet & American Life Project
ADVIZOR Updates Business Visualization Software. “There is a growing need to interact with data in a more visual manner, to improve the overall value of data analysis and exploration,” said Kurt Schlegel of the META Group. “This coincides with the trend toward more intuitive, self-service business intelligence solutions.”
EWeek
Mobiles get set for visual radio. “If you have a Visual Radio enabled handset, when you hear an artist you don’t know, or there’s a competition or vote that you’d like to participate in, you pull out your handset and with one click you turn on a visual channel parallel to the on-air broadcast you’ve just been listening to.”
BBC NEWS
feedbeep :: rss notification. “FeedBeep is the final link between you and the wealth of information published on the internet. Hundreds of thousands of data feeds are available in RSS format, and now you can receive alerts about events worldwide – as they happen – right on your SMS-capable phone.”
Feedbeep
Back Seat Gaming. “Backseat Playground [...] is a mobile gaming research project that will enable kids to play with the world outside their window from the back seat of a car. This augmented reality game uses a digital compass and a GPS-receiver to connect the game to the passing landscape. By aiming the device towards objects, players can defend themselves against creatures or pick up magic artefacts.”
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Schools Ban Camera Phones Amid ‘Happy Slapping’ Craze. “Head teachers have banned children from using video phones to stop them slapping other pupils in the face and recording the attacks on their mobiles.”
Scotsman.com
How to make a USB battery from a 9v cell. “The mad scientists over at hackaday have a relatively simple 9v-cell-to-USB hack, simple that is, if you’re the type who feels comfortable with a trip to Radio Shack and wielding a soldering iron. Just be careful, aight?”
Engadget – www.engadget.com
A Media Center in Your Pocket. “And the wireless capabilities of a cell phone could give them a leg up on what’s already out there. A cell phone with a built-in MP3 player could, for example, download music right from a wireless network at a moment’s notice. It will be able to synchronize with a PC. And with special memory features, such as Nokia’s so-called removable memory, they will be able to store as many songs as regular MP3 players.”
Business Week
Toyota Z-Capsule. “The hybrid car manufacturer will be testing a new lower impact, mass transit scheme this March in Japan. [...] to further minimize impact, they will run on an Intelligent Multimode Transport System (ITMS) that will automatically adjust schedules and route based on rider demand. Oh yeah, these things can operate without drivers as well!”
Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting:
Small science to be big in 2005. “It tends to be something of science fiction and something to be feared. The reality is that nanotechnologies have been around for some time.” But this year, he thinks, people will start noticing its mundane uses, like making car paint shinier, windows that clean themselves and smaller and better mobile batteries. Nanotech can also be used to make new materials.”
BBC NEWS
Pixel-clad shopping centre. “Shimmering by day and radiant at night, the disks are frosted on both sides to diminish sun glare and diffuse light produced by LED fixtures behind each disk, capable of generating 16 million colors. Because each LED is individually controlled, together the disks act like pixels on a huge screen, displaying text, scenes, and color schemes changed via the Internet, up to 20 times per second.”
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Human skin printer. “Using the same principle as an ink-jet printer, experts take skin cells from a patient’s body, put them into a special printer ink liquid, multiply them, then print out a tailor-made strip of skin, ready to be sewn on to the body. The wound’s dimensions are entered into the printer to ensure a perfect fit.”
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VersaLaser — Cool $10,000 toy. “The VersaLaser is a desktop computer peripheral that takes your drawings and spits out products made of “wood, plastic, fabric, paper, glass, leather, stone, ceramic, rubber.”
Boing Boing
The NeatReceipts. “…a portable scanner called the NeatReceipts that can scan your receipts and software that will automatically recognize and export the data into QuickBooks, Quicken, MS Money Excel or as a PDF for your expense reports. Costs $250 bucks.”
Engadget
“Emotive sensor” for drivers. “If it detects drowsiness, through signs such as a flat speech, it can trigger an alarm or bring up another suitable prompt to rouse the driver. If the voice shows signs of stress, it can try to calm the driver down, by over-riding the car’s air-conditioning or playing soothing music.”
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YOU’VE GOT MAIL, DEAR. “The programme can be installed by “children or grandchildren with average computer skills”. It then “bypasses confusing Windows logon procedures, and simply dials the Internet and downloads email”.
The Register
New Konami Takara Tera Robots shown in Japan. “…the Tera AV is able to play a DVD and has a projector lens in his eyes to display the video – strangely cool. The Tera Life robot measures things like alcohol level, body temperature, blood pressure and body fat. [...]The Tera Security features a camera, fire detector and gas alarm.”
I4U News
Despite promises, gadgets still don’t talk to each other. “Electronic devices that ought to be able to talk to each other stay stubbornly silent – or turn consumers into hardworking digital diplomats before they intercommunicate.”
CS Monitor
Music Media Watch. “We think it will be at least a year, probably two or more before a mobile phone comes out with enough storage space to mount a serious challenge as a stand-alone music player.”
J@pan Inc
Funhaler. “Traditional asthma inhalers scare kids into misuse (or non-use), but the Funhaler apparently “overcomes these difficulties by motivating the child to inhale willingly and effectively by the use of breath-driven incentive toys attached to the device, such as whistles and spinning discs.”
Boing Boing
Golf Courses Put Wi-Fi to Work. “Handheld and cart-mounted GPS units, which the company developed two years ago with the notion of helping golfers estimate distances and identify traps, greens and pins, today provide two-way communication with the clubhouse, hospitality services and even security to help course managers build revenue and provide a selling feature for golf resorts and golf communities.”
EWeek
Keychain-sized plants are big in Japan. “These “keychain plants” are said to be all the rage in Japan, though if I had a pair of vending-machine knickers for every time I’ve heard that, I’d be a very panty-rich person indeed.”
Boing Boing
Penelope, the surgical robot assistant“The robot should be able to do everything a nurse can,” Dr. Treat said. “Leaving instruments inside patients still happens,” he added. The hope is that Penelope, able to keep track of tools as they come and go, will put an end to that.”
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Artificial Spider Silk Could Be Used for Armor, More. “We’re trying to alter both the strength and elasticity of the natural silks,” Lewis said. “We’ve made a number of different synthetic genes based on what we found in natural silks—but altered in ways to make them even stronger and more flexible. We’re really trying to control elasticity, so you if come to me and ask for a certain tensile strength and elasticity, I can make a gene that will produce a fiber that does that for you.”
National Geographic
Sound mapping“Streetscape”, by Japanese artist Iori Nakai, is a plastic map with the sounds of the city “attached” to it. When tracing over the city’s white map with a special pen, you can hear everyday noises that were recorded at that particular location: conversations, passing traffic, and all the ambient sounds that make a city.”
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Retail CIOs Demo RFID Prototypes. “…showing interactive changing rooms that make clothing recommendations and have clerks bring additional pieces, a cashier shelf that instantly scans items (so the cashier doesn’t have to) and a privacy system that literally leaves the chip in the store. Mierdorf also demonstrated smart shelves that display the clothing sizes on them so that customers need not rummage through clothing piles.”
EWeek
Mouseradio. “Moving the radio vertically changes the volume, moving the radio on the horizontal axis changes the frequency. The radio is on, when the black speaker points up in the air.”
petracolor.de
Behold the $55,000 PC. “After several years of working with furniture makers and wood carvers on one-off projects, Wojewidka decided there was a need for a systematic approach to custom-made desks that carefully conceal a high-end PC.”
CNET
Turning New York into a webpage. “Grafedia , created by John Geraci, is hyperlinked text, written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to images, video, sound files, etc. It can be written on walls, in the streets, or in postcards, on the body as tattoos, or anywhere you feel like putting it. Viewers “click” on the grafedia hyperlinks with their phones by sending a message addressed to the word “@grafedia.net” to get the content behind the link.”
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Researchers create bio-robots. “Bioengineers at the University of California, L.A., have created microscopic robots powered by living heart cells, without any external power source.
Researchers used cells of rat heart muscle tissue and got them to grow onto tiny robotic skeletons made of plastic or silicon.”
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Robopax BabySitter automatically rocks crying babies. “…the BabySitter is a battery-operated platform that automatically rocks a stroller 66 times per minute (the average adult heart rate).”
Engadget
Grids Unleash the Power of Many. “Computer scientists in three states — West Virginia, North Carolina, and Colorado — are each combining their technology resources into separate computer grids that will give researchers, universities, private companies and citizens access to powerful supercomputers.”
Technology Review
Koreans take it to the next level. “…SK Telecom says that next month they’re coming out with a “mobile health care phone” with a built-in finger sensor which can analyze your blood sugar, stress, and body fat levels. And then there’s KTF, which is introducing a phone later this month that can give you an on-the-go eyesight exam, determining both your prescription and screen you for color blindness just by looking at the phone screen…”
Engadget
The iGesture replaces clicking with gesturing. “Unlike a conventional mouse, trackball or touchpad, the iGesture relies on “finger gestures”, an approach the company claims is more ergonomic than clicks and drags. While the method seems less than intuitive, the company provides animated examples of common gestures on their site, and many do seem fairly straightforward (though tapping with three fingers to represent a double-click just seems wrong).”
Engadget
Olson, the independent camera. “Bristling with microphones, the camera “listens” for interesting events such as laughter and spins around to capture images you would miss with a conventional camera. The camera has its own stable base, but its shape also fits the necks of wine and beer bottles or wine glasses for extra height.
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Ingestible thermometer provides accurate temp readings. “The purple pill-shaped device is about the size of a very large vitamin, and can provide accurate body-temperature readings to a wireless receiver.”
Engadget
Technorati Tags: three great services on one page. “Technorati Tags are keywords that map to category names, keywords, and other cues in blog posts. When you bring up a Technorati Tag for “computers,” you get all relevant blog posts that Technorati knows about, presented on a page with relevant Del.icio.us links and relevant Flickr images.”
Boing Boing
A list of interactive walls and boards.
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Sanyo Prototype TV Phone. “Sanyo was showing off this prototype phone at CES that has a built-in TV tuner. The clamshell screen can be flipped over so television can be watched while it’s closed, as well.”
Gizmodo
Scientists harness energy from ‘other half of sun’. “The material dissolves into a liquid without losing any of its performance, and can be painted onto walls or windows, sprayed on clothing, or printed onto rolls of paper. Hydrogen-powered automobiles coated with solar cells, for example, could covert enough energy into electricity to continually recharge a car battery so it could run longer…”
Ottawa Citizen
Men are more likely to buy cellphones as fashion accessories. “…a recent study concluded that (young) males are more likely to buy cellphones as fashion accessories than their female counterparts, who were stated to look first towards safety and security.”
Engadget
Futurelab projects. “Our Showcase features innovative work which reflects the latest thinking in interactive media, educational ICT and digital technologies.”
NESTA Futurelab
moovl. “Moovl is a digital online drawing tool for use on a Tablet PC and interactive whiteboard. It allows children to create drawings that move according to simple rules of science. Initially designed for the Key Stage 1 science classroom, it has potential across the curriculum.”
NESTA Futurelab
Hyperlinking the World. “Let’s say you’re standing in front of the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. You take a snapshot with your cameraphone and instantly receive an audio-visual narrative about the painting. Then you step out of the Louvre and see a cafe. Should you go in? Take a shot from the other side of the street and a restaurant guide will appear on your phone. You sit down inside, but perhaps your French is a little rusty. You take a picture of the menu and a dictionary comes up to translate.”
TheFeature
Rogue Ambience Table. “Users select the background sound of their choice (in a disco, on the road, etc.) via one of the six sound cubes, phone friends, family and colleagues and let them know how full your life is.”
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MyMo cellphone for kids pulled off the market. “The move is in response to a report issued by Britain’s National Radiological Board that concludes that even though there isn’t much concrete evidence indicating that cellphone radiation is causing health problems, the risk of health problems remains and that children should be shielded from that risk.”
Engadget
Interactive outdoor augmented reality collaboration system. “ARQuake is an Augmented Reality (AR) version of the popular Quake game. [...] We use a head mounted display, mobile computer, head tracker, and GPS system to provide inputs to control the game. Using ARQuake, you can walk around in the real world and play Quake against virtual monsters.”
ARQuake
Samsung SCH-S310: Motion Sensing Phone in Three Dimensions. “Samsung has developed a new six-axis sensor that allows their new cell phone to detect motion, allowing users to write the numbers they are dialing or the characters they are typing in the air.”
Gizmodo
Conversations control computers. “The Calendar Navigator Agent uses a microphone and voice recognition software on a wearable system to capture the user’s conversation for keywords that have to do with scheduling. It can, for instance, pull up a handheld computer’s calendar application and open an appropriate page when the conversation turns to days and times.”
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LeapFrog Unveils Talking Computer Pen. “LeapFrog Enterprises [...] announced the launch of its FLY “pentop computer,” a talking, computerized pen that can translate words into other languages, or help with math and spelling homework. [...] the company said a user can draw a calculator, touch the handwritten digits and functions to perform an operation, and then hear the answers announced.”
Reuters.com
Motorola’s spray-on ringtone wall. “…this prototype system that enables you to spray a pattern onto a wall sensor, which plays a melody in response to the shape that you draw; you can then print out the pattern with a URL that takes you to a ringtone version of the melody that you can download to your cellphone.”
Engadget
Samsung YP-W3 MP3 Pocket Watch. “The flash player supports a variety of formats (including OGG Vorbis), and switches between a watch face and a navigation screen as needed.”
Gizmodo
Voicemail software recognises callers’ emotions. “A voicemail system that labels messages according to the caller’s tone of voice could soon be helping people identify which messages are the most urgent.”
New Scientist Breaking News
Floating Numbers table. “On a 9-metre long table, numbers are flowing in a continuum. Digits appear randomly at the surface of this stream of numbers. Visitors could catch a number by tapping on it and it made the digits “explode” into an encyclopaedia entry for the number, featuring text and image or a movie.”
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Videos Quick, Easy and Automatic. “Locating video content on the web can be cumbersome and time-consuming, especially for the not-too-tech-savvy tinkerer. But a new application combining BitTorrent and RSS could make it easy for video fans to automatically locate files and download them to their computers.”
Wired News
Interactive tables List. “Philips Café Table has an interface that facilitates the use of the computer while you’re chatting with a friend over a drink. The table displays a selection of community content relevant to the café it is in and allows browsing as well as the creation of new content. Users can store content on a physical token by placing it in the ceramic bowl in the centre of the table.”
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Mouse-controlled Etch-a-Sketch. “These folks have hacked a mouse into an Etch-a-Sketch and published their build notes with pictures so you can, too.”
Boing Boing
SmartDeck Intelligent Cassette Adapter for iPod . “SmartDeck allows you to control your iPod using the built in controls of your cassette player. Using patent-pending sensing technology, the SmartDeck determines which commands the cassette player sends to the iPod.”
Griffin Technology
Pepper Computer @ CES – The Pepper wireless pad. “It’s such an obvious move for a tablet-style PC – split the keyboard down the middle, with half on one side of the screen and half on the other…”
Engadget
Electronic bugs in football balls and players’ shinpads. “The new technology could, for example, inform spectators that the ball missed the goalpost by 3.9 centimeters. Coaches could also tell which players were hustling around the pitch, and which were holding back, either out of fatigue or laziness.”
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1.6 Terabytes per Disc?. “InPhase Technologies Inc. is one step closer to bringing holographic storage drives to market. On Wednesday, the company plans to demonstrate the first fully functioning prototype of its Tapestry holographic drive, which the company expects to begin shipping next year.”
Lockergnome
Activity Wallpaper. “The prototype analyzes audio from a café setting, accounting for various characteristics of the current activity level, such as the number of people speaking or the amount of background noise. The more the color diverts from the background, the noisier the café is. The number of “dots” in each row represents the crowd, so that the more dots, the bigger the crowd was at that point.”
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Video Organizes Paper Documents. “The researchers’ system uses a computer and overhead video camera to track physical documents on a desk and automatically link them to appropriate electronic documents. The researchers have constructed a pair of prototypes that track paper documents and sort photos without the use of special tags, paper or marks.”
Technology Review
Houses built by robot. “Lines of wet concrete are squeezed out of a huge nozzle as if from a gigantic toothpaste tube. Then a pair of trowels attached to the nozzle shape the concrete as the robot repeats the pouring as many times as is necessary to achieve the programmed height.”
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Search Looks at the Big Picture. “The image-processing software looks for “key patches” in an image to determine the relative positions of different shapes, such as tires and a car body, or a beach and ocean waves, to categorize the image’s contents, Dance said. The software has learned hundreds of objects since development began in 2002, and “can be used to categorize images and automatically create image tags,” Dance said.”
Wired News
Beyond Bread Maker.” …the Beyond Bread Maker (retails for $150) automatically bakes any bread or cake mix by just by scanning a UPC barcode – there’s no need to set times here with this little contraption. Cooking by UPC code – now that’s something we like hearing.”
Engadget
VisitorVille: Website Traffic Statistics Visualization Software. “‘…instead of representing website visitors simply as numbers or graphs, it displays them as real people in a real environment. You can watch your site traffic as if you were people-watching in a big city.”
networked_performance
Rotundus, the ball-shaped robot. “Rotundus AB in Sweden has developed a spherical robot. By moving an internal mass, the robot run in most terrain at up 20mph. It can be fitted with cameras, microphones, gas and smoke detectors, heat sensors, etc.”
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bluefish: Bluetooth Surveillance System. “Bluefish constantly scans for Bluetooth-enabled devices, such as phones, PDA’s, and wireless peripherals. When a new device is found, Bluefish takes a picture of the area in which the device is discovered and catalogues all retrievable information about the device. If the device is ever discovered again, the user will be sent the last image captured of them via Bluetooth. [...] Over time, a profile is built for each discovered device, making it possible to track individual users who frequent the scanning area.”
Bluefish
Kodak Easyshare One Wireless Camera. “…you can add a WiFi card [...] to it to upload your photos right to the web, or even log in and view your Ofoto pictures on the camera. Plus Kodak sealed a deal with T-Mobile to make sure you can upload your pix from any T-Mobile Hotspot (aka Starbucks).”
Engadget
The New York Times (may require free subscription)
Light-based communicatins networks. “This new communications technology takes an essential part of every building — lighting — and uses it to communicate information that can be heard through an earpiece, seen on a hand-held computer screen, or processed as data or control signals by a computer.”
Talking Lights
The bionic trousers. “When the wearer tries to move a leg, the sensors detect through the skin faint electrical signals transmitted from the brain to muscles. The computer analyzes what the user is going to do, and the motors start moving to support the user’s motion.”
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Pew study: Blogs busted out in 2004. “Pew began surveying Internet users about blogs in the spring of 2002, and has charted a steady growth in blog readership since 2003, from 11 percent of U.S. Internet users to 27 percent in November 2004.”
InfoWorld
Media: New Generations Steal The Show. “The challenges come in all shapes and sizes. Broadcast networks will look on as they’re zapped by a rising army of remote-wielding couch potatoes with digital video recorders (DVRS). Film studios will see more movie-loving teens forgo the neighborhood cineplex for video games and DVDs…”
Business Week
Illuminated Manuscript. “Projected typography is virtually printed into the blank pages of a handbound book with a video projector. Sensors embedded in the pages inform the computer when pages are turned.”
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Sat Radio Recording Moves Ahead. “A handful of new and soon-to-be-released devices enable music listeners to automatically record tracks from satellite radio broadcasts onto hard drives or portable music players such as the iPod. While the recording industry has publicly decried such activities for terrestrial radio, analysts say it has a financial reason for remaining silent about satellite radio recording.”
Wired News
Concrete that can display information. [Concept] “Called Chronos Chromos Concrete, it’s basically concrete that’s mixed with thermochromic ink and with nickel chromium wires installed right below or behind. When you want to display specific words or information or whatever you just heat up the right wires and they cause the concrete just above or in front to change color.”
Engadget
MicroMedia Paper. “This snapshot-sized display can play music, movies, and more
Price: $50 for a 10-pack. Executive Summary: Wafer-thin display and storage finally brings digital media to the familiar format of paper.
Tech Barriers: Flexible, disposable displays; radical new GUI; millimeter-thick batteries.
Target Market: Photo-sharing families, 35 and up, plus execs wanting fancy business cards.”
Mobile PC
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