Seen on Mashable: “Do you daydream about the future? We thought so. But rather than bore you with our frivolous wish lists (which are mostly comprised of hoverboards and self-lacing shoes), we have asked nine leading futurists to share their visions of the digital world of 2020. Click through the slideshow to see…read on.”
(via emergentfutures)
Tupac ressurected at Coachella 2012..
I haven’t found the need for an Ipad yet untill now…All my note books in one place, organised and easy to find. Sounds perfect.
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The Paper App for iPad has been gaining some serious momentum over the last week or two, putting on almost a million views of the app trailer alone. If you haven’t seen it yet, Paper (created by the guys at FiftyThree) makes drawing and sketching seem almost easy via a sleek interface and simple, cheap, in-app purchases of beautiful drawing tools like watercolours.
Perhaps better than the drawing tool itself, is the notebook concept, which allow you to showcase and socialise your creative output in a very cool flip-book kind of way. Throw in a few intuitive additions like Rewind that acts like an eraser in perfect chronological order… Very cool.” - Aden Hepburn
Got to love Ikea…
“I love this piece from IKEA in Russia. It’s not easy to create new, interesting ways to allow users to explore kitchens and the various accessories, but if anyone can do it, it’s IKEA, who’ve got a rich history in doing so.
And again, they’ve created a new way for users to experience their kitchen solutions, with a Multi-View Interactive Story seen through the eyes of every character in the film, which each perspective being completely in-sync with the story, so it feels like you can navigate through the film in real time…
Not only is it beautifully done, but the results are outstanding, with 540,000+ kitchen solutions discovered through the video. Very nicely done by the guys at Instinct/BBDO Russia.” - Aden Hepburn
What If Your Emails Never Went to Gmail and Twitter Couldn’t See Your Tweets?
A new tool under development by Oregon State computer scientists could radically alter the way that communications work on the web. Privly is a sort of manifesto-in-code, a working argument for a more private, less permanent Internet.
The system we have now gives all the power to the service providers. That seemed to be necessary, but Privly shows that it is not: Users could have a lot more power without giving up social networking. Just pointing that out is a valuable contribution to the ongoing struggle to understand and come up with better ways of sharing and protecting ourselves online.
“Companies like Twitter, Google, and Facebook make you choose between modern technology and privacy. But the Privly developers know this to be false choice,” lead dev Sean McGregor says in the video below. “You can communicate through the site of your choosing without giving the host access to your content.”
Through browser extensions, Privly allows you to post to social networks and send email without letting those services see “into” your text. Instead, your actual words get encrypted and then routed to Privlys servers (or an eventual peer-to-peer network). What the social media site “sees” is merely a link that Privly expands in your browser into the full content. Of course, this requires that people who want to see your content also need Privly installed on their machines.
(via emergentfutures)
Want one!
Oooo Stepping on toes.
“Welcome to Google Play, you can be forgiven for thinking this is just iTunes for Android, because you’d be right, it is. But Google does take it a little further I guess, as the Google Play platform is ready to connect with their smart TV platform, which will give them a slight edge, if you can call it that… However, what I actually like about Google Play, is the Ad, with Google sticking to their mechanical/physical model that we all can’t get enough of.” - aden hepburn
I’ve needed this so much! Now I can go to public toilets.
Jeff that lives at home..
Fucking germans
The power of mobiles, rrroawr
I give a negative fuck
Take parts of one of the best adverts of all time and add current memes and you get = Vytautas Mineral Water! It’s Earths Juice.
Nice Guinness!
Toyotas future….
Great concept, but, does technology have to completely rule out humans? All I can see is concepts making life easier but also taking away jobs that people need right now. Wouldn’t a better goal be making technology that provides and supports job growth and employment? I am not just talking about opening more jobs positions in producing creating these machines and maintaining them….
To be a complete hypocrite, I would like to have one of those futuristic wheel chairs… walking seems like sure a chore now a days.
Makes me smile.
