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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Buy and Visa Contactless
In StoreFronBackTalk: Best Buy removes Visa Contactless system. Apparently over a dispute of the cost of valiation systems. A trend? We had a meeting with contactless...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Object Lessons from a Summer Workshop on a Cold Winter
As teachers begin a new calendar year and its promise of teaching and grading in cold, rainy, and even snowy weather, it can be a good idea to rethink how to approach...
From Putting People First
World Wide Mush
In his new book, “You Are Not A Gadget,” online pioneer Jaron Lanier explains how the Internet has gone off course. In this Wall Street Journal, he summarises the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D TV Ready for Prime Time
Is this the year for the emergence of 3D-TV? Some thoughts from exhibitors at the Consumer Electronics Show.
From Putting People First
Design for sustainable behaviour (part 2)
A range of other researchers have also published papers on the topic of design for sustainable behaviour. Twenty papers were presented at the CHI 2009 Workshop,...
From Putting People First
Design for sustainable behaviour (part 1)
Dan Lockton, a Ph.D. researcher at Brunel University (UK), has together with professors David Harrison and Neville Stanton, recently published a range of papers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nanoarticle Use
On the safety of nanoparticle use in products. ' ... The science and technology committee of Britain's upper house of parliament said in a report that use of nanoparticles...
From Putting People First
The false question of attention economics
A few posts have emerged recently that recapitulate the well-worn arguments of attention scarcity and information overload in the real-time social web, so Stowe...
From My Biased Coin
Visiting Dartmouth for a Research Symposium
I spent the day at Dartmouth, as I was asked to be "keynote speaker" for their Computer Science Annual Research Symposium. Essentially, it's their own mini-conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GIS In Retail
Great article from ESRI: The Future of Retail: Understanding the Geography of the Marketplace Helps Businesses Thrive, by Simon Thompson, ESRI
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmenting Packaging Using AR
Had a highly informative chat with Lisa Murphy of Metaio this past week about retail examples of augmented reality, and she pointed me to this interesting example...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vision for Augmented Reality
One of our early looked at AR used specialized eyeglasses. Here is more on this approach, though I think that smartphones will make this easier to deliver, at...
From Putting People First
The Internet is Africa
Publishing Perspectives reports on a recent panel discussion on the African publishing industry at this year
From Putting People First
Greenpeace guide to greener electronics
Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics provides an evaluation of “the 18 top manufacturers of personal computers, mobile phones, TVs and games consoles according...
From The Noisy Channel
Can You
Weren’t we just talking about what’s different about mobile search use cases and about how to make web search more exploratory? I may be biased, but I think that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Laundry
Have seen this low-water laundry idea covered for years, but yet to see it commonly implemented. So does a normal washer take water and destroy it? Or is the water...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power from Solar Updraft Towers
An interesting combination of solar power and heat draft. Reminds me of methods that use ocean water temperature differences.-
From Putting People First
Irish initiative to help SME
A new pilot programme from InterTradeIreland is aimed at assisting small and medium-sized firms, initially in the civil security sector, to innovate and meet identified...
From Schneier on Security