Mobility Value: The Supermarket Checkout

Sometimes mobile or wireless service experts get baffled why users don’t take up their killer-application. Value creation in mobile services is rarely related to their actual cost. Tourists can pay more in roaming charges than their entire touristic expenditure for an average stay; managing parking through advanced mobile services is rationalised down to a (high [...]

Media X at Stanford University: the Ubiquitous Virtual Relationship

Narrated by: Chuck House Media X focuses primarily on the influence of science communication and the humanities mainly through research projects sponsored by corporate members or partners, as well as through workshops and seminars. Our teams discuss with these members or partners, select research subjects, and publish research results. We collaborate with these firms in [...]

Mobile Penetration in Africa

While reading the Guardian’s digital content blog this morning, I stumbled across the image above in an article about the use of mobile phones in journalism in Africa. To me, this image is both poignant and alarming—-in a country in which there is only 25% electricity penetration, there is already 37% mobile penetration. On a [...]

Living Labs Global Award Shortlist

The Living Labs Global Team is pleased to announce finalists for the Showcase Award. More than 310 entries have been received for the Award, and dedicated jury panels have worked day and night to review the many Showcases for each City Category.

Copenhagen Layer

Are you curious about the air quality around you? Would you like to know if you’re walking through a pollution hotspot during your commute or on a leisurely urban stroll? Now, in Copenhagen, you can almost do just that.

Urban Policy and City-identities, Hamburg

Here’s an interesting think-piece discussing the city of Hamburg’s regeneration, gentrification and urban policy initiatives over the last couple of decades and its struggle to accommodate divergent groups of stakeholders, especially the creative class.

Environmental Scientists partnering with the CIA

In the U.S., the CIA is partnering with environmental scientists to monitor global climate change. Using the agency’s satellites and classified sensors to gather images and data in remote locations, the CIA will then share this reconnaissance information with a select group of scientists. This is a novel way to make use of established information [...]

Zap Mobile Commerce in Africa

The mobile commerce solution, ‘Zap’, will now be available in the African nations of Niger, Sierra Leone and Malawi, an expansion from a successful rollout of the service in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda earlier last year; with this most recent launch, the service will now serve 150 million people in six countries on the continent [...]

Considering the Size of Sensors

Smaller than a penny, this sensor from OmniVision is capable of capturing 14.6-megapixel images and 60-frames-per-second HD video. As the size of sensors continue to shrink, we can expect mobile phones to increasingly become a one stop shop for all our gadget needs.

Nano-Sensors that can detect heart attacks?

A team of engineers and scientists in India have developed a technology capable of detecting heart-attacks before they happen. Using three-dimensional sensors and the nano electrical mechanical system (NEMS) of its polymer material, the scientists can detect any abnormal movement in the heart muscles and convert it into an electrical signal for detecting cardiac symptoms;

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