This concept piece from Mozilla Labs provides some interesting ideas of how mobile devices could change in the coming years. Highlights include a separate gestural interface and a projected screen/keyboard dock.
Bonus: there’s also a 3D version of the video clip, using Youtube’s 3D technology (side-by-side, red-blue, and so on.)
Mozilla has just released its first report on the state of the Internet. The browser maker has an opt-in feedback engine from which it can capture data about how people use browsers, and it’s making that data available to the world.
Along with some more obvious metrics, such as browser use, the research also covers what time of day people start work, how many browser tabs they have open, and personalization. It’s an example of how user instrumentation and lifetracking can happen in strange places.
With more and more things to remember every day, will we trust computers to back up our brains? Find out in this interview with Sunil Vemuri. (read more...)
Patents have spread from products to processes, algorithms and even genes. This documentary examines the dangers to society of patenting everything. (read more...)
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