Johnatan Landais and Patrick Vincent of Erasme, talk about using technology for elderly people.
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Berlin Design Research Lab at Lift 2012
Posted by – February 25, 2012
Fabian Hemmert and Tom Bieling of the Design Research Lab in Berlin talk about their research of the future of mobile phone technology, haptic feedback around phones, wearable computing. They also design a glove for deaf-bling users to be able to communicate over the Internet.
Adrianne Jeffries and David Birch on BitCoin, digital worldwide currencies at Lift 2012
Posted by – February 24, 2012
Adrianne Jeffries, reporter at The New York Observer and David Birch, Consult Hyperion offer their opinions of the status of BitCoin, worldwide digital currencies, the future of financial services and more.
Anaïs Saint-Jude on the 17th century origins of Information Overload, Twitter, Blogging
Posted by – February 24, 2012
Anaïs Saint-Jude organizes the BiblioTech Program at Stanford, encouraging use of Humanities, Philosophy, Litterature, Arts in Technology companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple.
Marcel Kampman on the future of schools at Lift 2012
Posted by – February 24, 2012
Marcel Kampman launched Project Dream School to gather ideas for how to revolutionize schools worldwide.
Voltitude Folding Electric Bicycle at Lift 2012
Posted by – February 23, 2012
Voltitude is a foldable electric bicycle. Available from March 2012 for about 5000 Swiss Francs, range is 35 kilometers, weight is about 20kg.
Swisscom Labs at Lift 2012
Posted by – February 23, 2012
Swisscom is the biggest telecom company in Switzerland, they have launched http://labs.swisscom.ch where any user can submit ideas for what they think Swisscom should do and then Swisscom can fund those and make those ideas happen.
University of Art and Design in Geneva at Lift 2012
Posted by – February 23, 2012
Students from HEAD show some of their technological designs at Lift12 in Geneva.
Frog Design enhances social networking at conferences
Posted by – February 23, 2012
People can scan the QR code on their badge, then walk in front of a Kinect and projector and it can display overlay information on top of people and they can connect and tweet by simply standing close to each other.
Sennheiser Innovation Office mega-trends at Lift 2012
Posted by – February 23, 2012
Sennheiser has an advanced research and design center in Zurich Switzerland, they are working on implementing future trends for what Sennheiser might do in 5-10 years.