A broadcast-to-mobile offering in Korea has been embraced by consumers to the tune of one million devices, according to this story in Digital World Tokyo. Of course whether anyone is actually watching is not said. It's easy to believe many are, ...Read More
At CommunicAsia, Masaaki Fukumoto, director of the biological signal-processing laboratory at NTT DoCoMo's multimedia laboratories shows off a prototype phone interface that works by sticking one's finger in the ear. Worn on the finger, the Bluetooth-enabled terminal converts voice to vibration ...Read More
Richard Barbrook has an interesting-sounding new book, The Class of the New, about "Netizens, elancers, cognitarians, swarm-capitalists, hackers, produsumers, knowledge workers, pro-ams." In other words, "the new social class emerging from the networked workplace." The book offers Barbrook's introduction to the ...Read More
There's an imagination-provoking post by Anthony Townsend at the IFTF's Future Now blog, about the implications of new biological materials, and how they might start affecting how we live, and what we live in. I see three main threads worth thinking ...Read More
Curved Air serves up an awesome combination of several music instruction videos. No tubular bells? (Thanks, Rob Brown!) Read More
The BBC reports that two University of Nebraska professors have developed a sensor that matches the sensitivity of human touch. This is key to many interesting applications where touch is very helpful (as it is so hard-wired into human views ...Read More
The Observer tells the story of how LG and Samsung, with BBC and ITV, are testing the waters of TV on mobile, Together with other partners, including Eurosport and Cartoon Network (owned by US media giant Time Warner), they will make ...Read More
For the thousands of supereverywhere readers in London (you know who you are) comes a chance to experience Music for Bodies. Terrestrial and virtual research into new ways of making and listening to music. Ever felt music through your back? Or ...Read More
