29th Junio 2013
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Waltz Of The Rain by freddiehangoler
Case in point: the disruption of the GPS equipment market with smartphone apps happened almost overnight, they illustrate. “Users made the switch in a matter of weeks. And it wasn’t just the least profitable or ‘underserved’ customers who were lured away. Consumers in every segment defected simultaneously — and in droves.”
Reblogueado desde Privacy, Big Data, Human Futures by Gerd Leonhard
IBM developing ‘electronic blood’ to cool and power computers.
IBM Research is exploring the use of liquid coolant to cool and power powerful the exascale speed computers of the future.
“We are taking a new approach inspired by the brain,” said IBM Research scientist Bruno Michel. “Neurons are both cooled and powered by the blood, and by copying this packaging technique in the brain we hope to achieve a 5,000-times energy efficiency improvement by compacting the volume of our devices by several million times.”
“If you analyze a typical microchip, only one part per million is used for transistors that perform its functions, while 98 percent is used for cooling. But in the brain, 40 percent of its volume is performing functions, 50 percent is interconnections, and only 10 percent is used for cooling,” said Michel. “We want to produce computers closer to this ratio.”Exascale computers are required (among other things) to be able to analyse data in real-time from the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope, due to be completed in 2024.
Reblogueado desde FUTURESCOPE
The End of Cable TV? How Everyone Will Watch Television In The Future – ReadWrite
How much attention is OTT getting? The Interpret LLC’s New Media Measure syndicated report sets the number of US consumers age 18-65 that own an Internet-enabled set top box (like a Roku player, Apple TV, Slingbox, Vudu box, etc.) at 13.6%, reported a company spokesperson. Less than 14% may not sound like much, but OTT has been around for only three years. And Interpret’s numbers don’t include the millions of users watching alternate video sources like YouTube and Vimeo.
Reblogueado desde Privacy, Big Data, Human Futures by Gerd Leonhard
Social button sends half of small donations to content creators, half to charities
As the Kony 2012 campaign showed, viral sharing isn’t just limited to videos of cats and babies. Aiming to raise money for charities and creatives through ‘likes’, CentUp is a new platform that enables consumers to share content and donate to relevant parties at the click of a button. READ MORE…
Reblogueado desde Springwise Intelligence
Why The Human Body Will Be The Next Computer Interface
FJORD CHARTS THE MAJOR INNOVATIONS OF THE PAST, AND PREDICTS A FUTURE OF TOTALLY INTUITIVE “MICRO GESTURES AND EXPRESSIONS” THAT WILL CONTROL OUR DEVICES.
To see the future, first we must understand the past. Humans have been interfacing with machines for thousands of years. We seem to be intrinsically built to desire this communion with the made world. This blending of the mechanical and biological has often been described as a “natural” evolutionary process by such great thinkers as Marshall McLuhan in the ’50s and more recently Kevin Kelly in his seminal bookWhat Technology Wants. So by looking at the long timeline of computer design we can see waves of change and future ripples.
Reblogueado desde Emergent Futures Tumblelog
3-D Printed Car Is as Strong as Steel, Half the Weight, and Nearing Production
Picture an assembly line not that isn’t made up of robotic arms spewing sparks to weld heavy steel, but a warehouse of plastic-spraying printers producing light, cheap and highly efficient automobiles.
If Jim Kor’s dream is realized, that’s exactly how the next generation of urban runabouts will be produced. His creation is called the Urbee 2 and it could revolutionize parts manufacturing while creating a cottage industry of small-batch automakers intent on challenging the status quo.
Reblogueado desde Emergent Futures Tumblelog
personalfactory: 3D Printing Online Tools
A very useful 3D printing resource list.
1. Thingiverse - the most popular and the biggest database of free files designed for 3d printing
2. Willit 3D Print? - “website using javascript and webgl, where you can analyse your 3D design (STL or AMF files) before you 3D print it”
3. RepRap Calculator v2 - “useful set of calculators for RepRap users”
4. GCode Viewer - “viewer for GCode files, which contain commands sent to a CNC machine such as a RepRap or MakerBot 3D Printer”
5. 3D Printing Price Check - “the purpose of this site is to provide you with price estimates for many 3D printing services and their material options”
6. MakerBot Customizer - “simple way to make customized 3D Things
that you can share, download and print”7. Sketchfab - “web service to publish interactive 3D content online in real-time without plugin”
8. 3Dfile.io - “extremely simple 3D file or DWG drawing sharing app which creates online view links from the files you upload”
9. Sunglass - “powerful collaboration, issue tracking and version browsing for 3D projects”
Please reblog or send tumblr message if you know some useful online (but not portable like iPhone apps) 3d printing tools not mentioned above. ~personalfactory.tumblr.com
Reblogueado desde Applied Technotopia
Paper Tablet
This new innovation looks like a piece of paper, however, the ultra thin device is a prototype for a high-res display that has many possible uses. “The team behind the invention said their goal as to emulate the feel of paper – creating a robust, lightweight product that could bend and even be dropped on a desk”.
Peter Firth said that “with PaperTab, the whole idea is that screens should not be breakable,’ said Firth. ‘They should essentially be like pieces of paper. You can drop them on the floor, they can float down, you can move them around and bend them. I would say that in two years we will be able to buy flexible interfaces”.
Find out more at: https://www.lsnglobal.com/seed/view/7115
Reblogueado desde Emergent Futures Tumblelog
Skype calls now equivalent to one-third of global phone traffic
167 billion minutes of Skype-to-Skype traffic in 2012 a 44% increase.
Full Story: ArsTechnoica
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