The organisations and individuals doing the most to erode personal privacy and liberty in 2004 who have won […]
The City of Corpus Christi, Texas, will deploy Wi-Fi system for use by the city-owned water and gas […]
Mikel Maron has created a Flash-based application called The World as a Blog that tracks in (nearly) real-time […]
advertising
The technology not only threatens consumer privacy, it could allow hackers and tech-savvy shoplifters to fool merchants by […]
Wayne Chiangis is developing a “Deskoid Robotic PC”, which combines PC, robotics and the desk itself, to create […]
Goopas (short for Good Passport/Good Passgate), is a context-aware information delivery service for train passengers. When they register, […]
social
This year, the international media arts biennial Werkleitz Biennale has chosen the theme “Common Property / Allgemeingut” to […]
Yellow Arrow is a spatial annotation project that started in Brooklyn (NY) in which anyone can mark places […]
Auracle is a networked sound instrument, controlled by the voice, played and heard over the Internet. No need […]
Paname Ensemble has launched two weeks ago the first metro and RER map of bloggers from Paris and […]
The Federal Drug Administration is moving closer to approving the use of RFID to identify patients and/or permit […]
In Huddersfield (Northern England), Speakers Corner, an interactive art project that links a 15m LED screen with the […]
Companies are launching fake blogs: some actually look like blogs but pretend to be genuine ones and hide […]
Spanish Northern city of Bilbao will host, on October 6-9, the first World Chess Championship opposing humans to […]
In the UK, cosmetics firm Avon told customers earlier this year they would get a free pre-pay mobile […]
The Operating Company Name Lookup service from Accudata Technologies allows carriers to track and lure back former subscribers […]
Speech technology is now used to check frequent flyer points, order pizzas or book tickets, but customers still […]
The Zone project –by Bernd Hitzeroth and Myriel Milicevic at Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea (Northern Italy.)– wants […]
Reporters Without Borders denounced the “irresponsible” policies of major US Internet firms Yahoo ! and Google which bow […]
According to the Sunday Times (front page of the 25 July edition), a national database containing confidential information […]
Casey Fenton, a 26-year-old web consultant from Alaska, launched CouchSurfing, a networking site that puts like-minded travellers from […]
The Kansai Airport (Osaka) has introduced microwave devices to checks plastic bottles that people carry aboard airplanes. The […]
So about 35 have official accreditation to attend the Democratic National Convention. Cyberjournalist published a list of the […]
G-Search and Fujitsu Technosystems began offering this week in Japan “Sing Mail”, an application that sings the sentences […]
A new jacket from German clothing firm Rosner incorporates a 128-megabyte MP3 player controlled through cloth buttons on […]
When fragrance is used in spatial designs, it is mostly for branding purposes or for suggestive advertising (e.g. […]
The festival for interactive and digital art HALF MACHINE , inspired by the theme “meltage man and machine”, […]
British scientists from QinetiQ –a technology development company– found a way to mass-produce frequency-selective screens which filter out […]
This week, Spanish mobile phone company Amena is launching a service allowing seniors or disabled persons to call […]
Grace and George, a pair of socially skilled and autonomous talking robots will interact with the attendees of […]
Despina Papadopoulos’s projects are made for romantic geeks. Let’s start with her Love Jackets: Once a pair of […]
A new accessory sold by the Spanish online retailer Tecnoregalos allows users to physically fight the charaters of […]
E.L.I., or the Electro-Linguistic Imaginator, is a roaming poet that records the words and phrases people introduce into […]
Last week, the House of Lords, the highest court in England and Wales, decided that police will be […]
NTT DoCoMo now boosts three services to bring “interconnected world for Tokyoites today.” 1. Visual Controller enables a […]
Two posts from Picturephoning about camphones, wireless carriers, students and politics in the US. Student digital reporters to […]
Six Apart -the company behind Movable Type and TypePad platforms- bought French blog software firm Ublog last week. […]
The Niall McLaughlin Architects’ Houseboat won first prize of the “Unbuilt House” category of the RIBA’s Future House […]
The Institute of Transportation Studies is hosting an exhibit at UC Berkeley’s Brown Gallery: Transportation Futuristics, “Visionary Designs […]
NYKRIS, which had designed the interface of the Tate Modern’s iView application –a handheld device allowing visitors to […]