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.
Category: Lift
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
Category: Exclusive videos, Lift
NEXT is a tech conference in Berlin on May 8-9th 2012.
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.
ZMS inZair, free messaging on WiFi and Data networks
Posted by – February 23, 2012
inZair ZMS is being demonstrated at Lift12 in Geneva, can be used for free instant messaging and also provides social networking, localization layers are more.
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 City of Geneva welcomes Lift Conference and installs Fiber Internet
Posted by – February 12, 2011
Category: Exclusive videos, Lift
The Lift Conference has been going on in Geneva every year since 2006, with web industry people meeting up for 3 days of talks, workshops and networking. The City of Geneva is happy to host this conference, here they also talk about their efforts in installing fiber internet and free wi-fi hotspots all over the city of Geneva to make the city more competitive.
You can watch the many hours of Lift11 presentations with slideshows at https://liftconference.com/videos
Post Tenebras Lab hacker space at Lift11 Geneva
Posted by – February 12, 2011
Post Tenebras Lab use microcontrollers, screens, sensors, motors, leds, special materials and open source software to hack stuff together.
Instrument using accelerometers and gyro by nodesignlabs ircam at Lift11 Geneva
Posted by – February 9, 2011
This team from the Research Institute for Acoustic Coordination and Music at Centre Pompidou is working on real-time musical instruments demonstrating the use of accelerometers and gyros to trigger sound and new ways to create music. This could be used by a DJ or musician in live show or concert. It could potentially be triggered directly with the accelerometer, gyro and other sensors inside of a smartphone. Find more information at nodesign.net and http://www.ircam.fr
Mobino, a new mobile payments system demonstrated at Lift11 Geneva
Posted by – February 8, 2011
Mobino is a new way to pay for things through the mobile phone, through any cheap voice-only mobile phone as well, using voice prompts when dialing the payment system, and using a pin code to authorize the payment.
Steven Schuler of Ball State University at Lift11 Geneva
Posted by – February 8, 2011
Steven Schuler is the Sr. Assoc. Dir. Emerging Technologies at the Ball State University, Indiana. He tells us about the methods used with the students of that university to create Android and iOS applications and doing other projects in the real world. It’s the philosophy of learning by doing, the students are actually hired by real companies to have some real world IT experience before they graduate.
Latest news from CERN LHC at Lift11 Geneva
Posted by – February 8, 2011
Tara Shears of CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) gives us an update on the Large Hadron Collider, one of the biggest science experiments in history. They are ramping up the power of the accelerator in 2011 and 2012 to find the Higgs Boson, they are creating and capturing antimatter and she explains how the 3000 particle physicists at CERN can collaborate on research.
You can watch Tara Shears keynote presentation at Lift11 here:
You can watch my 4 CERN LHC Atlas videos as well, those are still relevant even though I filmed those in 2007:
CERN LHC ATLAS Tour
CERN LHC ATLAS GRID
Interviews with Engineers at the CERN LHC Atlas
CERN LHC ATLAS Control Room
Robert Scoble about Quora, Groupon, Android, Davos, Tablets and Apple at Lift11 Geneva
Posted by – February 7, 2011
Robert Scoble is one of the most influential bloggers on the web, he gives us an update and explanation on Quora, Android vs Apple, his Davos videos and more.
You can watch Robert Scoble’s pretty cool Lift presentation about the current status of Silicon Valley startups and tech companies in following video. Scroll forward to timecode: 1 hour 1 minute for Robert Scoble’s keynote (if anyone knows how to embed this video with deep link for starting at that time code, please post in the comments):
