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Category Archive: trends
I am attending O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference about the geo location software like Google Earth , PlaceSite and […]
Dave Chiu and Didier Hillhorst have developed an interesting concept of what they call Reputation Management Service. Interesting […]
advertising
The 24th issue of Neural is available in english. The cult magazine for new media art and emusic […]
Public recycling bins that use RFID to credit recyclers every time they toss in a bottle; pressure-sensitive floors […]
This summer i couldn’t find many interesting “media art” stories to blog, so i wrote lighter posts about […]
social
Ethertouch is working with the likes of Nokia, Bang & Olufsen and Microsoft to create applications for its […]
A year in an “assisted-living facility” costs around $28,500 a year, up to $40,000 in large cities. Lee […]
Maisonneuve has a fascinating story about ethnoburbs, the new suburbs for middle-class immigrants where strip malls are filled […]
Designer food consultancy firm Enivrance develops concept foods that are industrially viable. “The food industry needs new shapes, […]
Video game skills and a good poker face online are becoming essential job qualifications in the financial markets, […]
SpaceShipOne and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic can make us think that, after all, space trips are not out […]
There’s a growing trend of electronic products meant to make the owning of pets easier and funnier: from […]
A research by market analysts Mintel could help forecast what a day in the basket of tomorrow’s consumer […]
Hello Kitty will turn more plastic than ever by staring on a MasterCard debit card. “We think our […]
A new exhibition at London’s Science Museum asks whether the widespread use of digital enhancement to “improve” faces […]
This weekend saw the UK’s first consumer cosmetic surgery exhibition. The Body Beautiful show aimed at making shopping […]
In Korea (but this goes for other markets), makers are now promoting MP3 players as a fashion accessory. […]
Governments are committed to doing something to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases we release into the atmosphere. […]
High school students in South Korea preparing for the college entrance exam will be able “to use personal […]
BBC Science and Nature has a page where leading scientists and broadcasters tell on videos how they think […]
John Shirley wanted to know about the quality of life in the future, about our political life, the […]
A study of UC Berkeley reports that reading your news wirelessly on a PDA instead of on paper […]
The concept of Japanese hotel rooms that amourous couples can rent by the hour is being brought to […]
To keep the nation’s young and out-of-work busy and off the state dole, the Japanese Health, Welfare and […]
As housing becomes more and more expensive for ordinary people, the Guerilla Homes programme on BBC 3 (tonight […]
Greasecar Vegetable Fuel System is a kit that allows diesel engines to run on vegetable oil. When time […]
The New Economics Foundation (nef) is carrying out a survey asking people across Britain how much chain stores […]
Howard Rheigold wrote in Smart Mobs yesterday: “Want to knowledge-mob? Check out http://del.icio.us/tag/smartmobs and if you want to […]
To cover the voices of people on the street during the Republican National Convention, and let you directly […]
Virgin Radio and Napster will launch on Aug. 29 the first UK radio program counting down the week’s […]
Otara wants to host New Zeland’s first Computer Clubhouse, a centre aimed at education, not recreation. It would […]
Research experts at the Henley Centre say television is becoming a wallpaper medium – on in the background […]
The global sales of Japanese animation and character goods reach 9 trillion yen ($80 billion), 10 times what […]
Employees blogs gives readers a peek inside their daily world: their addiction to TV shows, favourite jokes, etc. […]
Spanish Fundación Chabrera has decided to rely on free softwares in order to boost its program of computer […]
The City of Munich, which was to be the first European city to adopt Linux in all its […]
London is having a try at speed flatmating. Borrowing the lonelyhearts technique of hiring a venue and giving […]
The BBC is planning to test a file-sharing system to distribute its TV programs to viewers over the […]
MIT professor Ian Condry has analysed the two “cultures of piracy” shaping the music industries in Japan and […]