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. The medium of your brand will become irrelevant. Touchpoint design will not be enough to …
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 Automatic Systems
Joakim Formo has written about User Experience of Automation in the Ericsson User Experience Lab Blog. PRINCIPLE # 1: Don’t make the system more complex than it is useful PRINCIPLE # …
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 …