Road trains: the future of connected driving
Posted on October 3rd, 2012 by Tim Aldiss
The utopian futures of urbanisation as depicted films like Minority Report, Star Wars and Blade Runner (utopian?) came one step closer recently when Volvo announced real world trails of something that they’ve coined (SARTRE) Road Trains. Anyone who’s ever tail-gated a bus on a bike will understand the principles of economy involved here, but it’s […]
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Gamification of life: CRED social scoring
Posted on August 23rd, 2012 by Tim Aldiss
Well another day working in the digital business is another day for distraction. I’d score really highly in the distraction ratings. Forget Kred, what’s my Dist score today?! Anyway I was going to write about the emergence of social media scoring into the mainstream with the launch of a new banking product (until @maddywood‘s tweet […]
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Organic Touch Screen
Posted on June 11th, 2012 by Tim Aldiss
So unbelievably cool, and something I’d say would be a wise tech investment… great for the blind too I imagine… Tactus Technology Introduction from Tactus Technology Inc. on Vimeo.
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Origami Star Wars X-Wing Fighter!
Posted on September 18th, 2011 by Tim Aldiss
I seem to be stumbling upon lots of Star Wars stuff at the moment. This is in the most part due to my son and me reliving the joy of discovering the story all over again. It’s also due to the Blu-ray box set release which I am yet to afford! Still amongst my searches for […]
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History of the home PC/Apple GUI
Posted on September 5th, 2011 by Tim Aldiss
This was a great find by DJ Greg Wilson: a series of short films about how all creation is plagiarism. Here’s the 3rd of 3 (the 4th is coming autumn 2011) which focuses on the creation of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of the modern-day home PC. Interestingly it was of course Apple who successfully brought […]
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[VIDEO] The Real Batman: turbine powered street legal batmobile
Posted on July 29th, 2011 by Tim Aldiss
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Groupon Now! – The Future of Advertising
Posted on June 14th, 2011 by Tim Aldiss
In a recent Guardian magazine article the CEO of Groupon, Andrew Mason, explains the success of his business model. In laymans terms the success of Groupon lies in it’s ability to breakdown the feeling of inertia in all of us when we see a special offer. All too often in the past we have the […]
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Augmented Reality Business Cards
Posted on May 30th, 2011 by Tim Aldiss
My faves knicked from a Mashable post…
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The Future of the Book
Posted on March 13th, 2011 by Tim Aldiss
From the great Design Thinking blog: The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo. Some folks in the New York office of IDEO have been thinking about the future of the book and how it shows up as an experience on tablets. They would love to get your reactions to the ideas. It is […]
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Favourite things from around the web this week
Posted on December 22nd, 2010 by Tim Aldiss
Fiverr – what would you do for $5? Foursquare adds photos (ReadWriteWeb article) Delicious – how Yahoo trashed its’ reputation (Guardian) Word Lens – the auto translation app. (Techcrunch)
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