Designers have to start thinking about transparency and accessibility in the design of privacy-sensitive products and services. This book offers the designer guidance, in the form of eight design principles, that help with designing products and services
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Heath Bunting gives insight into the networks at play that constitute an identity, like banks, health care and education. By using these different networks Bunting creates new synthetic identities. In his ‘Identity Bureau’ one can purchase official and legal UK identities
rep.licants.org is a web service allowing users to install an artificial intelligence (bot) on their Facebook and/or Twitter account. From keywords, content analysis and activity analysis, the bot attempts to simulate the activity of the user, to improve it by feeding his account and to create new contacts with other users. Quick Q&A with the artist
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While regine is away, I’m posting pieces about notable and award-winning works at Japan Media Art Festival. Some […]
This one has just been added to my I want one list. For the INCITE/RCA collaboration, Jon Arden […]
Tomorrow will be launched the bluepulse location-based service which enables people within a Sydney shopping centre get on […]
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When a major disaster takes down the phone system, who ya gonna call? An emergency communications system developed […]
Community Voice Mail project provides homeless people with a way for potential employers, social service agencies and relatives […]
Overdue debtors may not be able to rely on Caller I.D. to screen out bill collectors much longer. […]
Cocoon in the box , by Robert Schwermer, won the Green Tent Competition which asked entrants to design […]
Emergency Medical Systems, manufacturer of medical equipment, will launch in September EmergencyMedicalStation-TV, a kiosk-based satellite network, hoped to […]
Japanese food company ItoHam will print QR codes on their sausage and ham products beginning in October. The […]
SmallPlanet, a Los Angeles-based startup, created three location-based applications for mobile devices they are planning on rolling out […]
A survey by Brit supermarket chain Tesco showed that three quarters of parents found shopping with children stressful […]
Italian telco Tim and Health Telematic Network, are launching the first Italian sms-based health service, allowing TIM subscribers […]
Escape-A-Date from Cingular is a service that turns handy when you want to escape a blind date that […]
To promote wireless phone safety in the USA, FreeHeadset.org is offering free cell phone headsets. Participants are only […]
Goopas (short for Good Passport/Good Passgate), is a context-aware information delivery service for train passengers. When they register, […]
The Operating Company Name Lookup service from Accudata Technologies allows carriers to track and lure back former subscribers […]
This week, Spanish mobile phone company Amena is launching a service allowing seniors or disabled persons to call […]
NYKRIS, which had designed the interface of the Tate Modern’s iView application –a handheld device allowing visitors to […]
Amber alerts were created after the 1997 kidnapping and murder of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman. Now a technology debuting […]
The Traceabili-Tea allows Japanese consumers to view the information about the tea manufacturer by taking a picture of […]
Spanish software company Innova Telecom, has developped Hydra a software to create interactive applications based on SMS. Let’s […]
Food company Dole has introduced a new service that allows mobile phone users to check vegetable information while […]
One of the biggest problems in Spain over the past few years has been the increase in the […]
Japan is testing the future of live sport in trials involving large numbers of wifi access blanketing all […]
Alive Technologies developped a platform to monitor the progress and physical condition of marathon runners. The system relies […]
A new wholistic taxi system from Raywood Communications, called MD-X system could offer within one year a whole […]
Robert Barrows, from California, is patenting video-equipped tombstones to let mourners watch messages from the dead. The headstone […]
The State Hermitage Museum in St Pertersburg plans to offer mobile phone users an opportunity to have reproductions […]
A collaborative programme between the major players in mobile content delivery and the UK network operators is setting […]
Customers of SK Telecom Moneta mobile credit-card service, which allows to make direct online payments via mobile handsets, […]
The Surface Patterns is a project by Centrifugal Forces that plans to build a huge and evolving archive […]
Nextel is offering supervisors a new service to monitor remote employees’ work time, tasks and location status. Using […]
Four years after Lucie Blackman was murdered, her father has launched Safetytext, a service to alert friends and […]
While the larger coffehouses (Starbucks, Tully’s, Ladro, etc.) propose for-pay wireless services, an increasing number of Seattle’s independent […]
In UK, over 1,000 Boots drug stores will provide printing Kodak kiosks with infrared or Bluetooth capabilities for […]
Wanna share pictures with friends, but don’t like/trust e-mail attachments? TIME Global Adviser provides three new alternatives: ShareALot […]
Search marketing firm Overture has launched on Monday in the US Local Match , a service allowing advertisers […]