Category: trends
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Swimming Naked
"As house prices fall, a huge amount of financial folly is being exposed. You only learn who has been swimming naked when the tide goes out – and what we are witnessing at some of our largest financial institutions is an ugly sight." Warren Buffett The scarcity that has characterised this financial meltdown, perhaps more…
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E-Paper (2)
Regular readers will know I've long been following the development of e-paper. Until recently it's been in very much in beta – an interesting but slightly clunky interface that has slowly been developing in usability and application. But I think it's just turned a big corner. Early next year, Plastic Logic, a company that was…
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E-Paper
I've been following the development of e-paper for some time. It's story has been one of slowly emerging promise but more recently it's taken several interesting leaps forward. Use of sophisticated plastics to make flexible displays like the bracelet media player pictured below are rapidly making e-paper look more like the kind of thin, flexible…
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Voiceless “Telepathic” Communication
New Scientist has just featured a demonstration of some incredible new technology that allows for "voiceless" communication and has enabled the world's first public voiceless phone call. Michael Callahan, co-founder of Ambient, demonstrates a specially developed neckband at the TI Developer Conference which intercepts nerve signals sent from his brain to his vocal chords and…
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Connecting The Dots
Scott Karp wrote a great post recently about the evolution from linear to networked thought, sparked by reflections on how all his reading was now done online rather than in print and whether this meant that it had become more scattered and non-linear, and as a consequence whether this was changing the way in which…
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The Bionic Contact Lense
University of Washington researchers have just managed to embed LED’s and an electronic circuit board into contact lenses. Quite an acheivement given the size of the components involved and the need to marry inflexible metallic elements with the flexible organic matter of the lense. The circuits were built from layers of metal which were only…
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Fighting Crime With Ones and Zeros
This video is not new but I saw it for the first time yesterday (in a cab of all places) and kind of liked it. It’s an IBM promo done by OgilvyOne about how data architecture and management have transformed how the NYPD fight crime. It was, according to the Commissioner, a "classic case of…