Institute For The Future

Haptics-laden sport garment

"This is a haptic sports garment developed by the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research. Laden with actuators, the vest is...

On-the-screen games are still part of the future

Amidst all of the excitement about new forms of gaming that take place off the screen (such as on cell phones or through GPS devices), it can be easy...

China takes a crack at gaming addiction

Beginning 10/1 Chinese online gamers will face new regulations that restrict them to 5 hours of play within any 24 hour period. The new rules are an...

Implants part of MoMa's new design exhibition

"Developed by Penn State researchers, this prototype implantable glucose sensor for diabetics will be on display as part of the New York Museum of...

A-Rage wearable gaming platform

"A colleague pointed me to this site out of Australia for a project called the A-Rage, a new, still-in-beta wearable hardware & software platform for...

Smart shelf-life label

"Nestlé is integrating a smart food label from Timestrip into a food product package this spring. The chemistry-based label indicates whether a...

Hackers Put Brazil on the Map

Just in case you missed this article over the weekend. Looks like 80% of world's hackers operate out of Brazil....

Flailing into the future of game input

In the evolution of home videogame consoles, progress on the controller has taken a backseat to graphics, raw processor power, even the industrial...

Amsterdam Restaurant Puts Flickr on the Walls

I came across this interactive experience, called "Playing Flickr 2.0", during some recent research I've been doing in the run-up to our Fall Exchange...

Flailing into the future of game input

In the evolution of home videogame consoles, progress on the controller has taken a backseat to graphics, raw processor power, even the industrial...

update: Slow Broadband Adoption in the U.S.

About a week ago, I wrote that broadband deployment in the U.S. hasn't reached the steep part of the technology diffusion S-curve. According to a...

One of my absolute favorite songs is Sting's version of the classic Jimi Hendrix song "Little Wing," which he recorded on Nothing Like the Sun. (The...

CNET: Intelligence in the Internet Age

"C/NET has published the first in a series of articles titled "Intelligence in the Internet Age." The big question is whether "new innovations and...

Chipping corpses

"Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) company VeriChip is implanting tags in corpses to help the Mississippi State Department of Health keep track of...

Google Telecom Play Is About Local Advertising

Rumors today are that Google is getting into the ISP business, through dark fiber infrastructure and Wi-Fi. Methinks its likely a play to get a...

What to Do When Someone Jacks Your Navigation System

Well, after a decade in New York City, I had to move to San Francisco to get burglarized. But more important was what they took - the Garmin...

Another good reason to wear sunglasses when it's hot: to monitor your brain temperature. Medagadget reports that GMI Medical Instrumentation's new...

DIY micro satellites

"CubeSat is a program at Stanford and California Polytechnic State University to assist college and high school students and companies in building...

Treo cardiac monitor

"Mobile medtech company Active Corporation is now selling an ECG cardiac monitoring package that interfaces with the Treo 650...

World's smallest robot

"Dartmouth researchers built what they claim is the world's "smallest untethered, controllable robot." Built from micro-electromechanical systems...

Cell phone map of Graz

"MIT researchers tracked tens of thousands of (anonymous) cell-phone users traveling through Graz, Austria and used the data to generate a real-time...

India Telecom: Everyone's Going Wireless

India's telephone infrastructure has improved of late because it has taken the wireless route. Nearly everyone has a mobile phone these days. In fact,...

The OECD has published its 2005 edition of Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators, a global comparative study of the primary and secondary school...

RFID in hospitals

My colleague Frank Baitman sent me this snippet regarding Spyglass Consulting's new report on RFID use in...