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Technology for the Elderly workshop at Lift 2012
Posted by – February 25, 2012
Johnatan Landais and Patrick Vincent of Erasme, talk about using technology for elderly people.
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.
The Libri by BlueLibris, wearable connected health sensor
The Libri by BlueLibris uses the Freescale Xtrensic MMA9550 solution, the Freescale Xtrinsic MAG3110 Magnetometer and the Xtrinsic MPL3115A2 Pressure Sensor, fusing together all the sensor data for Activity Monitoring, Voice Monitoring, TeleHealth Gateway, Location, Fall Detection and more. They say it’s the worlds smallest, simplest 3G speaker phone.
Diesel Dogs Smart Weights
Posted by – February 1, 2012
Diesel Dogs develops Bluetooth Smart Weights, records the movements of weights into an Android application, to be used for people working out and who want to try to optimize their workout. They were invited by Freescale to exhibit at CES 2012 as being in the top-10 winners of the Freescale Third Annual Bluetooth Innovation World Cup.
Monbaby Baby Health Monitor
Posted by – February 1, 2012
Remnart Technologies presents the Baby Health Monitor, they want to use Freescale sensors and low energy Bluetooth to make it thin and light enough to be put on the wrist of babies to monitor their health signals in realtime. Monbaby was also in the top-10 at the Third Annual Freescale Bluetooth Innovation World Cup.
UbiDuo by sComm, communication device for deaf and hard of hearing
Posted by – January 25, 2012
This ARM Powered device is for deaf and hard of hearing people to communicate with hearing people to interact with each other face-to-face.
Tobii eye tracking demo
Posted by – January 24, 2012
Tobii shows their latest eye tracking technology in the form of a thick bunch of cameras and detectors to be placed under a screen, after calibration, it can detect where you are looking on the screen, providing a new type of user interface for computing. Do you think we’ll soon have this technology automatically-calibrated and into all computer screens, into all smartphones and tablets also?
AQ Corporation NFC solutions
Posted by – January 24, 2012
AQ Corporation shows some of their latest NFC solutions for tablets, they sell tablets which stores can buy to receive NFC payments in store.
HuinTech touch panel mouse
Posted by – January 24, 2012
Huintech presents their latest RF based touchpointer device, to use for presentations, for putting mouse functions and certain controls in a remote.
iRiver Kibot, this robot takes care of children
iRiver and the South Korean telecom company KT have introduced this robotic playmate for kids called Kibot. The price in South Korea is something like $40 plus a $30/month subscription contract with KT over 2 years which includes new educational apps and videos through the KT robot portal in South Korea. It’s based on Android and also comes with the full Google Marketplace. The pricing for it is about the same as an iPhone 4S. iRiver plans to do more robots, to take care of old people, and maybe at some point they’ll release an Android robot that cooks food, takes out trash and washes dishes. The Android robots are invading the world! So what do you think, should I start a new ARM Powered Robots category on my website?
MHL at CES 2012
Posted by – January 20, 2012
Judy Chen, Director of Marketing at MHL presents the latest developments at the MHL Consortium, the latest list of devices to support the new standard. It looks like most new high-end phones, HDTVs and new types of devices are using the MHL connector and are part of the MHL Consortium, the reason being having everything go through one Micro-USB connector on the side of devices makes them simpler, thinner, cheaper to manufacture.
