The death of Multitasking:
Unitasking and focus pills lead the way.
Multitasking is out and Unitasking is in. But can you zero in without your focus pills? Technology’s promise was to give us more time to concentrate on the important things in life. Of course, it didn’t quite turn out that way (at least not yet). With...
Tricky fingers: Minority Report’s gesture control gets an upgrade
Minority Report and Gmail Motion predicted gesture based software control but they forgot one thing: Humans are lazy. Whilst just an April Fools day prank back in 2011, Google’s Gmail Motion attracted a lot of attention with the promise of intuitive, gesture based computer controls....
Augmented reality: The two worlds merge.
Divisions between the Internet and the real world are blurring as the two continue to merge. In its early days, the Internet remained separate from the ‘real’ world and there was little overlap. People would open up a web browser and ‘go on-line’ to check their emails,...
Google Dog meet Google Cat: Gps pet tracking
Millions of dogs and cats are lost each year, but that’s about to become a thing of the past, with new GPS animal micro-chipping promising to reunite lost pets with their owners. Pet microchipping has been popular for decades, but it’s only really useful...
The House of the Future?
Well, it didn’t quite turn out like this but here’s a great little slice of how internet company Arnet envisioned the ‘house of the future’ back in 2010. (Note: the video is in Spanish but you don’t need to understand Spanish to appreciate the humor.) ...
Dr. Toilet
Could a toilet become your new doctor? Japan has long been a leader in toilet technology with their automatic toosh-cleaning jets and accompanying drying systems, but now, a new technology brings the toilet closer to science fiction for the rest of us. Introducing a toilet...
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