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Project Glass is a perfect example of what Google calls “moonshot thinking” – the type of thinking required to take on global-scale problems, define radical solutions to those problems, and succeed in solving those problems through the development of breakthrough technology.
For Google, Glass is a device that could potentially change the way we search, the way we share and the way we interact with the world around us. Make no mistake, Project Glass is extremely ambitious which is part ...
“There’s a f***ing zeitgeist going on with what’s happening in terms of art and crowd-funding right now,” states singer Amanda Palmer. “Everyone is getting inspired!” Last year Palmer -- musician, poet, all-out wild child -- leveraged her social media network to raise the money she needed for her latest album, book and tour. Palmer, who has used Kickstarter before, was surprised by the amount she managed to raise -- a record-breaking figure of US$1 192 793 from 24 883 fans ...
Augmented reality (AR) is not new, it’s a concept that has been around for ages and has seen a massive rise in popularity along with the ascendancy of the smartphone. AR allows you to apply an additional layer of information onto the real world to provide useful information that would otherwise not be available. With applications from heads up displays (HUD) through to interactive advertising, augmented reality sounds like a great avenue of future technology, available today.The key differentiator between ...
Everyone on the internet looks at porn. You do, I do, but more worryingly, so do children of very young ages. Given the unchecked proliferation of extreme porn genres on the internet, this is not a particularly good thing. On the other hand, sex is an incredibly taboo subject in polite society (much like international cricketer AB De Villiers’ musical career). Cindy Gallop, CEO and founder of new porn startup Make Love Not Porn (NSFW), says this is a recipe ...
The term Big Data has been thrown around pretty willfully over the past couple of years. It makes sense too, after all, petabytes of data are being gathered everywhere in the digital age at a furious rate, and by a variety of devices. You might as well use that data. Until recently however the only people really trying to use that data effectively were a handful of startups.Now though, it looks like Big Data is about to go mainstream. ...
“The past doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes”, reads the famous Mark Twain quote in the introduction of a research paper suitably titled Mining the Web to Predict Future Events.The mining of massive amounts of data allows a party to potentially adjust (and ultimately manipulate) its relationships found on the web via social media, media archives and seemingly countless other resources. Resources are gathered to the extent that it is, in most regards, theoretically possible to predict future events. ...
At the end of 2012, Joshua Topolsky wrote an editorial for The Verge entitled "Reasons to be excited". In the piece, Topolsky stated that while we’ve spent the past few years getting used to things like social networks, smartphones and tablets, 2013 will be the year where we will begin to understand the impact that these new technologies will have on our lives.Make no mistake. If you are in digital, it is definitely the time to be excited. We’ve all ...
Ahh, the future. That mystical place filled with robots and flying cars... and hopefully your businesses. Things are moving incredibly fast when it comes to technology, as trends which never existed before (think BYOD and that thing called social media) are increasingly becoming just another part of every day life. Think about it: ten years ago Facebook didn't exist -- now there are legions of postings for social media strategists, managers and gurus populating jobs boards. You can log into ...
The data grab is underway at every retailer in the world at the moment, not to mention large enterprises and your favourite social networking platform. But it is beginning to get a little too creepy for my liking.The first thing I want to get out of the way is that I am all for the personalisation of marketing material, promotions and coupons. I do not mind being targeted for certain promotions as long as there is some level or relevance ...
If you think pop stars are becoming more and more fake, accusing them of not writing their own material, and think that, God forbid, they can’t play an instrument and lip sync whenever they do a live show, then you are right, it’s true. But, there’s something out there that’s even more fake, but way cooler than the traditional fake human pop star: virtual pop stars.At the forefront of this new craze in music is the holographic star Hatsune ...
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