Technology Trends : Uncategorized

Medical monitoring

rb.trends — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:51:30 GMT

Medical debut for smart band aid “He described the plaster as a “platform” that can be loaded with all kinds of sensors that can keep an eye on other bodily indicators, such as glucose levels, blood pressure in different parts of the...(read more)

Nature and electricity

rb.trends — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:49:47 GMT

Electrical Folklore “The juxtapositions of spectacular landforms and immersive, forested environments with these subtle networks of lighting effects—and the accompanying idea that there might be a power source shining away somewhere deep within...(read more)

Transport visualization

rb.trends — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:45:40 GMT

Visualizing a Day in the Life of the MBTA “Linear charts were used to display the activity of stations on a given line to show the geographic relation of activity throughout the course of the day. Circular 24-hour clocks were made for individual...(read more)

Arabic domains

rb.trends — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:44:39 GMT

Egypt launches Arabic web domain “Tarek Kamel said the new domain name would be “.masr” written in the Arabic alphabet. It translates as “.Egypt”. “It is a great moment for us… The internet now speaks Arabic,”...(read more)

Magnification

rb.trends — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:43:51 GMT

A Product (You Think) You’ll Never Need “The $395 Optelec Compact Mini is about the size of a small entry-level global-positioning unit. By clicking a button, a user can view a printed page on its 3.5-inch LCD screen in one of three magnifications...(read more)

Light switches

rb.trends — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:42:46 GMT

Nanodevices Bend under the Force of Light “A team of researchers has fabricated a micron-scale device that deforms significantly under the force of light, a technology that could form the basis for tiny light-actuated switches or filters in future...(read more)

Content destruction

rb.trends — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:17:03 GMT

Bringing Impermanence To The Digital World “An entire generation is emerging that may know nothing but cloud computing, and we’re increasingly becoming accustomed to a world where all data on the internet will last forever. Temporary.cc explores...(read more)

Mapping movies

rb.trends — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:12:16 GMT

Crowds map filming locations across the world “Filmaps is rapidly creating a crowd-powered database of filming locations around the world. Users can search by location or film title to bring up a Google Map that features location photos from Panoramio...(read more)

Drawing with your eyes

rb.trends — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:08:13 GMT

EyeWriter Allows Man To Paint Despite Paralysis “the incredible people behind the EyeWriter Initiative are making sure that not even paralysis, like Tony’s, stops someone from making such a creative contribution.The project is an open-source...(read more)

Twitter data

rb.trends — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:02:33 GMT

The bathroom scale evolves with wireless and Twitter integration “The scales are capable of uploading to a Twitter account to share progress, get advice on how to improve things further and presumably motivate you to keep at it and avoid the embarrassment...(read more)

Games from music

rb.trends — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:00:38 GMT

Use Your Own Digital Music Library to Generate Enemies for Symphony – Music library game “games like this could help sell music in weird ways if users are posting that certain songs get them certain levels that are really great. A crap song...(read more)

Augmented reality encyclopaedia content

rb.trends — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:58:17 GMT

cyclopedia “by moving your iphone around, wikipedia entries will begin to pop-up. these entries tell you about what you are looking at in reality and link to the full entries on wikipedia. the application also allows you to search wikipedia through...(read more)

Componentised phone

rb.trends — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:57:11 GMT

With Fujitsu’s new phone, the screen and the keyboard get a divorce “The detachable screen communicates with the keyboard via Bluetooth, and the keyboard side has both a QWERTY and a number pad. Oh yeah, and they threw in a pico projector”...(read more)

Real-time auctions

rb.trends — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:19:48 GMT

StuffBuff: Real-Time Auctions With A Viral Twist “…it’s looking to combine the real-time nature of sites like Twitter with traditional auction sites like eBay. […] A standard StuffBuff auction (called a ‘Live Haggle’) looks quite similar to a chat...(read more)

Visualizing books

rb.trends — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:18:32 GMT

One Book, Many Readings: Visualizing ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books “Christian Swinehart subdivided these ‘narrative’ and ‘endings’ groups based on the number of choices offered (e.g. a ‘branching’...(read more)