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January 2008 - Technology Trends

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  • Rating sites

    Sifry Launches “Web Hot Or Not?”“For the one person reading this who doesn’t know how Hot or Not style sites work, the site presents a website which must be scored between 1 or 10, 1 being not, 10 being hot.” TechCrunch Read More...
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  • Drawing 3d

    Media: MIT’s 3D Installation Pwns Roger Rabbit“Here’s a tech demo of ‘Installation’ by MIT Media Labs. After you are done drooling over their hot camera/display, watch as they place 3D objects into the image and pan around...
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  • Distributed social networks

    Facebook Apps On Any Website: Clever Move“Since the library does not require any server-side code on your server, you can now create a Facebook application that can be hosted on any web site that serves static HTML. An application that uses this...
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  • Rain power

    Researchers dream up rain-powered devices“After using computer models to find out just how much energy could be created by rainfall landing on piezoelectric materials, they determined that between 1 nanojoule and 25 microjoules of energy could be...
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  • Saving sites

    WebMynd Could Change the Way You Bookmark Websites“The service doesn’t save just an image of the page or the URL, but the full text site. That means you can also search those virtual pages later when you are looking for something.Users can turn...
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  • Wearable sensors

    Smartex Smart Clothes“[The unitard] reads the wearer’s vital signs and beams the data wirelessly to a computer. Information on posture and movement is measured by the stress on sensors built into the garment. Other components gauge electrical activity...
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  • Wrap-around displays

    Concepts: P-Per Cellphone Concept is too Perfect to be True“The design is modeled around the same E-Paper Slap Bracelet we saw earlier, but this time the e-paper system—four layers of sustainable material, and an Organic Radical battery—is put to...
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  • Books authored through SMS

    Is text-messaging the new word processor?“Out of the 10 bestselling books in Japan last year, five were “cellphone novels” — books that were written on the mobile phone, with the authors tapping out sentence by sentence via text...
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  • New kinds of camera

    Flying Stick Camera“Rub it between your palms to get some kinetic energy stored up. Then release and the Flying Stick automatically takes pictures at set intervals. You know what they say, everybody looks 5 lb lighter when photographed from above...
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  • Interactive walls

    Interactive Graffiti Wall“The wall now serves as an experimental platform for different technologies. By capturing Semacodes on the wall you can download goodies for your mobile such as wallpapers showing the Matroschka characters, videos about...
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  • Natural gestures

    Funky Forest“It resembles an interactive ecosystem where children can grow trees with their body. By gesturing kids can divert water flowing from a waterfall to the trees in order to keep them alive.” PSFK Read More...
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  • Digital skin

    Sensitive Synthetic Skin in the Works for Prosthetic Arms“Double amputee Jesse Sullivan demonstrated a current prototype of the bionic arm at the DARPATech conference in August. Sullivan can stack plastic cups in a pyramid and pull a credit card...
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  • Wrist displays (concept)

    E-Paper Slap Bracelets“The entire surface is E-Paper and possesses all its thin, high contrast, power efficient qualities. The length can be adjusted by adding magnetic snaps to the ends. Best part is there’s no recharging needed. It gets all the...
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  • Public display art

    Cloud“In response, we created ‘Cloud’, a five meter long digital sculpture whose surface is covered with 4638 flip-dots that can be individually addressed by a computer to animate the entire skin of the sculpture. Flip-dots were conventionally used...
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  • Quick video

    Vision crosses the million-pictures-per-second with Phantom V12“to grab that impressive burst of images you’ll have to settle for a 256×8 resolution, although you’ll still get a decent 6,315 pictures-per-second with the maximum...
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