A team at Nokia in Finland has created a computer touchscreen display out of ice. Insert joke here. Paul Marks writes that Jyri Huopaniemi at Nokia’s research lab in Tampere, whose team built the touchscreen, dubbed Ubice, or ubiquitous ice, admits that it is not a practical device, but is seen as a step towards
Amazon has launched an app for iPhone that lets users either scan the barcode of a product in a store or take its picture in order to ompare the price with that offered online by Amazon and other online merchants. It gets even better – the app also lets a person type or say the
According to Matthew Garrahan of Financial Times, the number of people subscribing to US cable television services has suffered its biggest decline in 30 years as younger, tech-savvy viewers lead an exodus to web-based operations, such as Hulu and Netflix. I’m not sure the implications of this are staggering, because (a) we saw it coming,
We’ve written about neuroscience and marketing, but it seems that there’s suddenly become a real push – as if neuromarketing is right on the verge of becoming the next big thing in advertising. Even the New York Times had a feature article this past Sunday. As such, it seemed like a good idea to dig
This year’s winner of the Loebner prize for the most convincing chatbot – software that mimics a human conversing – was created by Bruce Wilcox of Telltale Games in San Rafael, California.
“More than 30 years after the Star Wars film scene in which a hologram of Princess Leia appealed for help from Obi-Wan Kenobi, researchers have unveiled holographic technology to transmit and view moving three-dimensional images.” (Clive Cookson, Financial Times). This is the stuff that makes me crazy and excited all at the same time. It
