The Science Foursquare is social networking on the go. The location-based mobile app taps into your phone’s GPS and displays the whereabouts of friends on your network. You tell it where you are by “checking in”, Foursquare shares this with your friends, and rewards you with badges. By “checking in” it also suggests neighbouring locales [...] Read More…
Category Archive EMERGING
Emerging: Foursquare 27.03.2010
Emerging: Augmented Reality 02.03.2010
The Science Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that allows you to superimpose, through a camera, graphics and audio over a real-world setting in real-time. It augments what you’re actually seeing in front of you, like looking into a mirror and seeing something that’s not actually there. Recently, Wallpaper* Magazine included AR on their Cover. [...] Read More…
Emerging: Digital E-Ink 10.02.2010
The Science Structurally composed of millions of tiny microcapsule or cavities — an ink or oily substance fills them, and pigmented chips or balls with a negative charge float inside the microcapsule. You get a super-thin display where the E-ink technology creates something similar to an electric billboard (with 50 to 100 times less energy [...] Read More…