Johnatan Landais and Patrick Vincent of Erasme, talk about using technology for elderly people.
MySollars.com at Lift 2012
Posted by – February 25, 2012
MySollars.com is an Environmental Loyalty Solution for companies to engage consumers and for consumers it’s a social game to compensate their carbon emmissions.
Mute Watch at Lift 2012
Posted by – February 25, 2012
The Mute Watch is made by Mai-Li Hammargren, it provides an interesting design, display and user interface. You can order it for 199 Euros at: http://mutewatch.com
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.
Lego mindstorms robots at Lift 2012
Posted by – February 25, 2012
High-school students from Lausanne Switzerland show off their Lego Mindstorms based bluetooth synchronized robots.
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.
John Horniblow on Internet Freedom efforts at the United Nations
Posted by – February 24, 2012
Billions of people are going to be connected to the Internet for the first time in the next months and years, the United Nations works on Human Rights for the Internet. This is about China, conflict zones, ACTA/SOPA and many other aspects of Internet Freedom worldwide.
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.
Next Berlin conference (May 8-9th 2012)
Posted by – February 23, 2012
NEXT is a tech conference in Berlin on May 8-9th 2012.