Connected coffee
TopBrewer Coffee faucet by Scanomat - with iPhone control (by ScanomatCoffee)
Connected pizza
Ordinare la pizza tramite un magnete! A Dubai si può grazie a Red Tomato Pizza
sixthsense - a wearable gestural interface
Tecnologia e vetro. Vision!
JWT’s 100 things to watch out for in 2012, this presentation makes my list every year.
Tessuti interattivi
Maps + Mashups + Conflicts + History = Conflict History
Part amazing, part depressing, Conflict History is a Google Maps timeline mashup that lets you browse from past to present to learn about the world’s conflicts.
The screenshot above shows 2001-2010. Selecting the Info icon on the left gives background information on the conflict with additional links to related materials. The slider on the bottom brings you forward and back in time.
For example, we just learned about the Sicilian Wars of 600 to 264 BCE.
Most of the content is pulled from Wikipedia and Freebase, a Creative Commons licensed data source.
This is pretty incredible. I’m going to try and work this into one of my presentations.
(Fonte: futurejournalismproject)
Una lavatrice che twitta via SMS quando il lavaggio è completato. Un video di 2 anni fa!
The History of Payments – a mockumentary from Barclaycard
Freshly Peeled: ScanLife: Mobile Barcode Q2 2011 Trend Report
ScanLife’s Mobile Barcode Q2 2011 Trend Report is now available. Here are some of the key takeaways:
- A year ago, the ScanLife system was processing 10 scans per minute, and it now does 1 scan per second.
- Scans come from over 125 different countries every day.
- 2D barcode scanning is…
Connected Cars
GM’s Autonomous Pod Cars Are Coming To A Megacity Near You
GM has autonomous, electric pods that can be summoned by a smartphone and will whisk you, hands-free, to wherever you want to go. They’re almost ready, now we just need to wait for GPS to catch up.
