Mobile Phones as Sensors for Enhancing Lifestyles
I thought this video (despite being long) provided a fairly thoughtful look at potential use for the data our mobile phones are collecting. If you stick with it, it’s worth it.
Designing for Awareness
In the video below, interaction designer, Robert Fabricant, thoughtfully contemplates how designers can better understand triggers that help to change people’s behavior. I found his ruminations on mobile and health technologies to be entirely relevant. Do take a look.
Mobile App Lab in Africa
The World Bank in partnership with Nokia is set to create a mobile application laboratory in Afria in an effort to push innovation in the field, while providing special support to innovative solutions that address the diverse challenges facing Africa.
Skinput from Microsoft
If you haven’t already heard, the brains at Microsoft together with researchers from Carnegie Mellon came together last week to debut their innovative solution to our touchscreen-centric world, a technological leap that transforms one skin into their personal touchscreen.
A Savvy App for Texting Fiends
For those of you who find yourself texting about sensitive information, be it professional or otherwise, you might take interest in ,TigerText.com, a new application for iPhones that allows senders to control the lifespan of individual texts.
Our Handbook on Innovation in Services and Mobility in Cities – “Connected Cities: Your 256 Billion Euro Dividend” – now out!
We are pleased to announce that our new Handbook on Service Innovation in Cities is now out, published by the DesignLondon at the Royal College of Art. The result of a collaborative effort involving more than 20 contributors, the book presents rich original data and serves as a resource for professionals from both public and [...]
remap with Bestiario
This Friday I’ll highlight a project from the young and scrappy Barcelona/ Lisbon-based company, Bestiario. Combining art, science and design to create thrilling user experiences, the Bestiario team has put forth numerous unique interactive media experiences since it was founded two years ago. Check out their portfolio here.
“It’s not rocket science, but…”
In his third law for predictions about the future, Arthur C. Clarke famously declared that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. This is truer today than ever before, and almost every day sees the introduction of some new mobile application that is widening the boundaries for what we traditionally perceive as possible. A [...]
It’s no place really, but it’s real.
Hamburg – Mediterranean Matchmaking Summit, January 16. The prolific writer William Gibson has stated that we live in an age that is dominated by a post-geographical feeling. The development of the internet and the mobile generation has revolutionized the way that we view the world,
Living Labs Global Channel
