The Lowly Luggage Tag Gets a High-Tech Makeover
By Damon Lavrinc from Wired.com: We shop for flights on our laptop, book hotels on our tablet, and have a QR code boarding pass on our smartphone. So why are we still walking up to the ticket counter to get a printed sticker when we check our bags? British Airways and Designworks asked the same question […]
Smartphone Tracker Gives Doctors Remote Viewing Powers
By Tom Simonite from MIT Technology Review: View full report: Data science and personal information are converging to shape the Internet’s most powerful and surprising consumer products. Here’s the smartphone technology that alerts a doctor when patients are headed for trouble. Tracking you: The Ginger.io app tries to detect health changes by monitoring a person’s […]
Review: Pebble e-paper watch
From boingboing.net: 69k backers. $10m in the can. But now that the Pebble E-paper watch is showing up on our wrists, was it worth it? With 68,929 backers pledging more than $10m, the Pebble E-paper watch is the highest-grossing Kickstarter project to date. The pitch, to fund an Android- and iOS-compatible smartwatch, was so successful […]
Mobile phones: 40 years of handsets in pictures
From the Guardian UK: As we reach the 40th anniversary of the first public mobile phone call, we look back at four decades of innovation, from the “brick” handsets of the 1970s and 1980s to today’s smartphones. Expert Mike Short says: “Since its first use 40 years ago, the mobile phone has completely changed our […]
“Digital Omnivores” Devouring Video on Tablets, Study Says
From the Hollywood Reporter: Research firm Deloitte says 26 percent of the U.S. population over age 14 owns a tablet, smartphone and laptop. There were 160 percent more “digital omnivores” at the end of last year than there were at the end of 2011, according to a new study Deloitte will release Wednesday. The research […]