Jude Kelly points out in this TED talk, that skew and ultimately bias affects how we interpret even non-fictional stories. She highlights that there is a more useful, a more …
Svalbard’s Global Seed Vault – the most important film you’ll watch
If there is one important film you need to watch this year to get over the Oscars #EnvelopeGate it is this one – the Crop Trust’s Svalbard’s Global Seed Vault. …
Scientists decode brain signals that recognises images
Scientists from the University of Washington have decoded brain signals at nearly the speed of perception for the first time — enabling the scientists to predict which images patients were …
Top 6 Predictions for Service Design in 2016
Erik Flowers predicts what we can expect from service design over the next 18 months. Image source: FB
How the new Skype Universal Translator works
Skype have written a blog post explaining how their Skype Translator works which is currently available as a preview-release for the Spanish language. The blog includes a short Behind the …
Nicholas Negroponte on the Future of Bio Tech
Nicholas Negroponte has described Bio-Tech as the next big Innovation wave in an interview this time with Think Big. Earlier this year at TED 2014 in Vancouver, Negroponte reflected on …
DesignX: A Future Path for Design
The Design Collaborative* have written an Essay on DesignX – a new, evidence-based approach for addressing many of the complex and serious problems facing the world today. It adds to and …
Wanderers, a short film by Erik Wernquist
I stumbled across this short film by Erik Wernquist this weekend. It was a film featured in Vimeo’s Staff Picks Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik …
ESA promotes Rosetta comet mission with film
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a short sci-fi movie to promote its audacious Rosetta comet mission. Ambition is a collaboration between Platige Image and ESA. Directed by Tomek Bagiński and …
Automagic – Design Principles for automated systems
Joakim Formo has written about User Experience of Automation in the Ericsson User Experience Lab Blog. Principles: Image Sources: PaleoFuture and Gizmodo
IDEO’s vision on the Future of Books
IDEO have created a nice concept video on their visions for the future of the book. Meet Alice and Nelson – different experiences linking diverse discussions, connected readers, multiple stories and community building around books.
Google Instant & Scribe
Google today launched: Google Instant Google Scribe (related blog)
Language, music, syntax and the brain
A really interesting high-level article by Aniruddh D. Patel and published in Nature Neuroscience which looks at the comparative study and cognitive theory of music and language and its representation …
Digital image of 1000 bits stored in atom
A digital image made up of 1000 bits has been able to be stored in the atoms of a polymer molecule. www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/article.jsp Journal reference: Journal of Chemical Physics (vol, 117 …
The Internet2 project – a similar project to NGI
The Internet2 project. An institutional/industry led group/project similar to the government led, Next Generation Internet (NGI). It’s aim is to develop and test new protocols, applications, etc for the future …