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February 2009 - Technology Trends

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  • Car data and widgets

    Downloadable Dashboard Apps for Cars Coming in 2010 "Hughes plans to start rolling out the new dashboard consoles in about 2010, and gives examples like an emissions monitor, web-connected security camera, and even Twitter integration as what might...
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  • Mind toys

    Mattel Mindflex reads Minds at Toy Fair 2009 "When you focus your concentration, a small foam ball starts to levitate as the sensor signal controls an air stream in the Mindflex base. The more you concentrate the higher the ball rises. When you relax...
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  • Covering cables

    Cable Camouflage "Even with the myriad systems for keeping them organized, it’s almost impossible to beautify gadget-charging hubs. So it makes sense then to stop trying to hide all these wires and start making them into something that can be...
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  • Paper costs

    Printing The NYT Costs Twice As Much As Sending Every Subscriber A Free Kindle "Not that it’s anything we think the New York Times Company should do, but we thought it was worth pointing out that it costs the Times about twice as much money...
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  • Tattoo indicators

    Tattoo Doubles as a Blood Glucose Level Monitor: Rebellious Yet Cautious "A Cambridge laboratory has developed a special ink for tattoos that changes color based on glucose levels in the blood. On a related note, diabetes is now the hippest metabolic...
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  • Desktop organizing

    Fences is a Seriously Awesome Desktop Icon Organizer "Desktop icon organizer Fences arranges your cluttered desktop icons into containers so you can clean up the mess into useful groups of shortcuts—or optionally hides them altogether. Once installed...
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  • Scanning for music

    Twisten.fm Turns Twitter into a Music Station "Still in its incubation phase, the mashup provides a current list of the most recent micro-messages involving music and a link to the song in the Grooveshark catalog for your listening enjoyment. If you’re...
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  • New music tools

    Intua "BeatMaker is a new generation of mobile instruments and music creation software. Inspired by hardware beatboxes, loop samplers and software sequencers, it combines them to turn the iPod into a unique, inspirational software instrument."...
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  • Plug in social tools

    OpenFeint: A Plug-And-Play Social Platform For iPhone Games "The OpenFeint Platform allows developers to integrate features including user profiles, Facebook-like ‘walls’, and chat rooms (which can either be game-specific or globally shared across...
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  • New music models

    The New Boxed Set Comes Streaming To Your iPhone for $2.99 "The Presidents of the United States of America, a rock band from the 1990s, just released an iPhone app (iTunes link) that represents what could become a replacement for the boxed CD set...
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  • Music analysis

    I Like B-Sides Analyzes Your iTunes Library to Suggest New Music "To use i like b-sides (their non-capitalization, not ours), browse your computer to find the XML file that contains your iTunes database—and consequently all of your music information...
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  • Adding motion sensing

    SIMSense Motion Detecting SIM Card: Drunk Dial Even When You Pass Out "Why the hell would you need a motion-sensing SIM card you ask? Well first off, it could give any run-of-the-mill handset the capability to navigate menus, send calls or SMS messages...
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  • Augmented reality gaming

    Augmented reality experiment from gamemaker Introversion "Introversion Software, makers of thermonuclear war simulation Defcon, are experimenting with an augmented reality version of the game."   Boing Boing Read More...
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  • Font recognition

    WhatTheFont For iPhone IDs Fonts From Text in Snapped Photos "The process is really easy-snap a photo, crop it down to the area where text is the clearest, then help the app’s text recognition divine which letters are which, and presto, your...
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  • Small power generation

    Power-Generating Shock Absorber Is Surprisingly Strong "The prototype shock absorbers use a hydraulic system that pushes fluid through a turbine attached to an engine’s generator. When the vehicle hits a bump, an electronic system cushions the...
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