Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

We’re in the middle of a significant change in how peo... services. Use of mobile devices such as smartphones and ... exploding.
People should be able to use digital services wherever t ...
Here’s how government services have been responding to ...

Personalization is a multidimensional concept, and it is... unpack it. If we are really talking about personalizatio... simply co-opting a word to make the technically feasible... and socially sophisticated, we need to think more deeply.

Nostalgia has been shown to counteract loneliness, bored... makes people more generous to strangers and more toleran... Couples feel closer and look happier when they’re shar... memories. On cold days, or in cold rooms, people use nos... feel warmer

I was one of the people who funded Leap otion on Kicksta... wowed by the potential of the product. I put my money do... eager anticipation. I loved the idea of an almost magica... interacting. I dreamt of the way it might, might, help m...
I have been

Abraham Maslow and some examples of pyramids inspired by...
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Health Check
Herrings - good to eat, not to inhale
... s satisfied, the desire to fulfil the next set kicks in.

With your help, we're creating a comprehensive database ... towers, cell phone signal strength readings, and Wi-Fi a... the world. Our goal is to become the global authority on...

with excitement building for the release of a new VR hel... Rift - it is worth asking what went wrong the first time... lessons be learned?

Unlike Google (GOOG, Fortune 500), which crawls the Web ... websites, Shodan navigates the Internet's back channels....
Shodan runs 24/7 and collects information on about 500 m ...
It's stunning what can be found with a simple search on ...
Shodan sear

I wrote a Thunderbird add-on to make the email interface... wanted — one that helps me remember to stay in touch w... care about, instead of always distracting me with the ne... trivia.

Analysts ABI Research expect the wearable computer marke... exponentially, predicting there will be 485 million ship... 2018.
A Microsoft executive said recently he expected we would ...

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Daniel Berger, a researcher at MIT, traced these neurons ...
EyeWire
People can get pretty addicted to computer games. By som ...
Right now I'm at the novice level of a game called EyeWi ...

Director Jake Schreier talks about his new film, which e...
Frank Langella on Robot & Frank: 'I'd rather make love i ...
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The tech giant's 'wearable computing' project is now bei... volunteers, meaning you might already have been surrepti... uploaded on to Google's servers. How worried should you be?

With "immersive media" taking content well beyond the TV... technology is attempting to move virtual reality towards... closer to real life.
Whether it be a cave, an igloo or a theatre, virtual rea ...
Full 360-degree screens are now capable of taking a

So this article is my attempt to summarise what I have d... use of humour in teaching. There is rather more written ... students, so I have unashamedly drawn upon the sociology... literature. However, there are similarities between soci... psychology

The gold fibres in the uniform, the product of years of ... actually do that communications work yet. Currently, the... a uniform," Joannopoulos tells Wired.com: They're about ... diameter, and Joannopoulos wants to scale down to 100 mi...
The fibres

People like lists of things. They're everywhere on the i... any subject matter you can think of, odds are there's a ... Nowhere is safe. Even here, on the Guardian Science sect... most popular articles in recent months is a list. But wh... popular? We

What this means is app-culture infiltrating the dashboar... space finder to a way to get coupons for local restauran... that can pop up on the windscreen.
It all relies on the car being connected to the internet ...
The connected car is already the thir

FORTUNE -- The key tech battle of the current decade wil... we wear. Technology is crawling out of our bags and pock... bodies in the form of wearables. An increasing number of... finding their homes on our wrists, necks, ears and eyes.... and the sma

DarkPatterns.org was set up by Harry Brignull. Dark Patt... interfaces that are intended to trick people. The purpos... to spread awareness, and to name and shame sites that us...

Body language affects how others see us, but it may also... ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how "powe... standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't ... can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain... have an imp

We tend to think of reason and emotion as being two diff... it turns out that there may not be a choice between the ...
Relationships between general and emotional intelligence
CT scan showing overlaps of different general and em ...
Differe

According to the International Society of Prosthetics an... there are some 32 million amputees in the world today, a...
Eric Ronning's ReHand, made mostly out of parts fabr ...
Eric Ronning's ReHand won US$10,000 at UW-Madison's ...
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Researchers have been pursuing the development of such a... decades, in some cases spending hundreds of millions of ... engineering challenges. One device designed to help peop... condition is awaiting U.S. regulatory approval. It is kn...
Second Sigh

So I tried something that sounded easy when I thought of... technically quite difficult when I tried to actually do ... the number of times I clicked on different check boxes a... different screens I had to navigate in order to document...
This is eas

Disney is launching augmented reality toys with a line o... in October; from there, it'll expand into other characte... then, it's keeping a tight wrap on images of what it's d... weren't allowed to take shots or video. We did learn tha... to Disney I

a way to store, sync, share, model and back up content
a work in progress
Open Source (Apache licensed)
an acronym for "Content-Addressable Multi-Layer Indexed ...
... neither "Cloud" nor "Local". happily both.

Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie ...
Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and ...
During the day, computer screens look good—they're des ...
f.lux
... use it just because it makes your computer look better.