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Technology Review: Printed Stickers Could Monitor Food and Vaccines http://goo.gl/mag/viFUI - http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/post...
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RT @ranjun_chauhan: Sentiment analysis in social seems flat. Wouldn't it be better to measure emotion? #socprod
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Working in the new Collaboratory space in 11 Madison, part of our Future of Consulting initiative (@ IBM Downtown) https://foursquare.com/jackmas...
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RT @peterkorsten: #IBM Collective Intelligence: Capitalizing on the crowd http://www-935.ibm.com/service... #ibmibv #HCM
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RT @BenjammerJ: Smarter computing isn't about creating a better infrastructure for sake of a better infrastructure, it's about business outcomes #ibmscforum
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So #SM12, what have we learned so far? Highlights? Insights? Headlights?
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Today! Building Cities through Social Media at UN in NYC. #SMW12 http://m.socialmediaweek.org
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The Number Of Mobile Devices Will Exceed World’s Population By 2012 (& Other Shocking Figures) - http://pulse.me/s/5YXFF - http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/post...
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Nike’s Sparq Shines a Light on Visual Training | Playbook | Wired.com You wouldn’t think that old saw, “practice makes perfect” would apply to, say, tracking a baseball as it comes toward you at 95 mph. Nike says it does, and wants to prove it. The company’s funky new Sparq Vapor Strobe eyewear works with the equally geeky Sparq Sensory Station to... - http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/post...
Nike’s Sparq Shines a Light on Visual Training | Playbook | Wired.com You wouldn’t think that old saw, “practice makes perfect” would apply to, say, tracking a baseball as it comes toward you at 95 mph. Nike says it does, and wants to prove it. The company’s funky new Sparq Vapor Strobe eyewear works with the equally geeky Sparq Sensory Station to analyze and improve 10 vital visual and sensory skills. The eyewear’s lens work a bit like a strobe light — hence the name — by alternating between clear and obstructed fields of vision to improve your ability to target an oncoming object. Think of it as watching that baseball through a venetian blind you’re opening and closing dozens of times a minute. It sounds crazy, but evidence suggests it works. The system has been used in particular by NFL players like St. Louis Rams running back Steven Jackson and Green Bay Packers wide receiver Greg Jennings. But you don’t have to be catching long bombs to benefit from the technology. Nike swears it can help any athlete in any sport where keeping your eye on the ball is critical. “The clearer you see, the better the reaction, the better the depth perception,” says Dr. Alan Reichow, Nike’s vision and science research director, who’s been studying visual and sensory performance in sports since the late 1970s.
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Connected Cars: How to Accelerate Mainstream Adoption | Mashable Every so often, the media tells us about an automotive manufacturer on the cusp of delivering wireless, cooperative systems. The reader immediately thinks of Knight Rider, and wanders through a fantasy of connected car heaven. However, this type of news is often miles from accurate;... - http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/post...
Connected Cars: How to Accelerate Mainstream Adoption | Mashable Every so often, the media tells us about an automotive manufacturer on the cusp of delivering wireless, cooperative systems. The reader immediately thinks of Knight Rider, and wanders through a fantasy of connected car heaven. However, this type of news is often miles from accurate; connected car offerings in the near-to-distant future are a different reality. This article examines the delays behind that “nearly done” automotive technology, and analyzes the value of our research dollars. In 2005, several automakers introduced cooperative, wireless systems at the Intelligent Transportation Society World Congress in the parking lot of the San Francisco Giants’s then SBC Park. Messages were sent vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure via dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) or, as it would later be renamed, “IEEE 802.11p (5.9 GHz).” Most of the applications were safety-related systems that offered a seemingly futuristic understanding of position, speed and road conditions. But that was six long years ago – so, what has changed? Apart from the Giants stadium name-change, not much. Technology is no closer to the marketplace. Let’s explore why.
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Watson’s New Job: IBM Salesman - Technology Review IBM’s Watson supercomputer reached a milestone in artificial intelligence last February when it beat two Jeopardy! champions. Millions watched, and while some experts dismissed it as a publicity stunt, IBM said Watson would soon be helping doctors diagnose illness, and hinted at talks with gadget... - http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/post...
Watson’s New Job: IBM Salesman - Technology Review IBM’s Watson supercomputer reached a milestone in artificial intelligence last February when it beat two Jeopardy! champions. Millions watched, and while some experts dismissed it as a publicity stunt, IBM said Watson would soon be helping doctors diagnose illness, and hinted at talks with gadget companies about Watson helping consumers with questions. As IBM prepares to celebrate the first anniversary of the televised contest on February 16, though, it is not yet offering the question-answering system for sale. Although limited trials using Watson technology are underway in health and financial services businesses, the AI prodigy is having its biggest impact by pulling in new customers for existing business products—as IBM persuades them to organize their data into formats that an AI like Watson can better understand. IBM has created a slogan, “Ready for Watson,” to help sell its products that way. IBM hasn’t disclosed how much it spent developing Watson, but the lengthy research and development process is believed to have cost in the tens of millions of dollars. To play Jeopardy, the system needed to understand the meaning of the answers posed as clues, and to rapidly apply general knowledge—distilled from the Internet and other sources—to identify possible answers. That required novel software and an expensive supercomputer. “Customers are coming to us and saying ‘I’d like a Watson,’ ” says Stephen Gold, IBM’s director of worldwide marketing for Watson. Eventually, that might be possible, but first they need to have the right data sets for Watson to operate on.
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Bits meet bite: Check out the connected toothbrush | GigaOM Want to really embrace the quantitative self? Forget tracking your sleep and start tracking your dental hygiene. Beam Technologies, a year-old startup, is set to introduce a Bluetooth-enabled toothbrush and app that will launch next month. The toothbrush contains a sensor and Bluetooth... - http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/post...
Bits meet bite: Check out the connected toothbrush | GigaOM Want to really embrace the quantitative self? Forget tracking your sleep and start tracking your dental hygiene. Beam Technologies, a year-old startup, is set to introduce a Bluetooth-enabled toothbrush and app that will launch next month. The toothbrush contains a sensor and Bluetooth radio that will send your brushing information to a smartphone app. Later versions will also track how long you spent in certain areas of the mouth and might add some kind of gamification layer to help encourage better brushing. Alex X. Frommeyer, the CEO and founder of Beam, says the Beam Brush should hit shelves in early March and retail for about $50 for the base and $3 for a replaceable brush head. The Android app is ready, and the iOS app should be ready when the toothbrush launches or soon after.
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Scientists Print Cheap RFID Tags On Paper | TechWeekEurope UK Technology could make RFID tags cheap enough to replace barcodes in the future A way to print Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips right onto paper has been discovered by a team of scientists from University of Montpellier. The technique uses a thermal evaporation process to... - http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/post...
Scientists Print Cheap RFID Tags On Paper | TechWeekEurope UK Technology could make RFID tags cheap enough to replace barcodes in the future A way to print Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips right onto paper has been discovered by a team of scientists from University of Montpellier. The technique uses a thermal evaporation process to deposit of thin aluminium coil antennas on sheets of paper which can later be used to create packaging or printed material. Researchers claim that this works out to be cheaper than any other method of  producing RFID tags, allowing the technology to replace both barcodes and QR codes.
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nanocosmos | the new extension of the Nanotechno Series http://www.nanotechno.biz - http://jackmason.tumblr.com/post...
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Step into the Smarter Planet Time Machine! For a little Friday Fun, try one of these three settings: …One Week Ago …One Month Ago …One Year Ago Or for quintessential quantum experience, try the Random button to sample one of the more than 4000 posts about All Things Smarter since we started three years ago in November, 2008. You are welcome to... - http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/post...
Step into the Smarter Planet Time Machine! For a little Friday Fun, try one of these three settings: …One Week Ago …One Month Ago …One Year Ago Or for quintessential quantum experience, try the Random button to sample one of the more than 4000 posts about All Things Smarter since we started three years ago in November, 2008. You are welcome to like or reblog your favorites to feed our collective intelligence on those posts that best reflect how the world’s systems can become more sentient and senseable. Of course, you can always browse through the misty mountains of Smarter Time via the Archive. Want to hold Smarter Planet in your hand? Get the mobile apps for iOS and Android.
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mHealth: Remote Patient Monitoring Is On The Rise, With Smartphones Leading The Way - http://pulse.me/s/5M92U - http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/post...
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Votizen Brings The Empowerment Of The Internet To Elections | Fast Company Before political campaigns were all over blogs, Meetup.com, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, there was USA.gov, cofounded by David Binetti in 2000. The site, which was the platform for the first ever webcast from the Oval Office, is now the U.S. Government’s official portal.... - http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/post...
Votizen Brings The Empowerment Of The Internet To Elections | Fast Company Before political campaigns were all over blogs, Meetup.com, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, there was USA.gov, cofounded by David Binetti in 2000. The site, which was the platform for the first ever webcast from the Oval Office, is now the U.S. Government’s official portal. Binetti’s new venture is a Silicon Valley tech startup called Votizen, a social network where voters can campaign for a candidate or a cause. Users reach out primarily to friends or acquaintances, leveraging their own social networks to organize. Votizen was used heavily in last November’s San Francisco mayoral race, which resulted in the election of Ed Lee, the first Chinese-American mayor in that city’s history. With the 2012 campaign heating up, we spoke with David Binetti, Votizen’s CEO and cofounder, about the disruptive impact of technology on the political landscape and the challenges of innovating in the federal government.
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Some Interesting facts about Mobile Phone Owners world wide - http://www.techshortly.com/2012...
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Be a Gamer, Save the World - WSJ.com We often think of immersive computer and videogames—like “FarmVille,” “Guitar Hero” and “World of Warcraft”—as “escapist,” a kind of passive retreat from reality. Many critics consider such games a mind-numbing waste of time, if not a corrupting influence. But the truth about games is very nearly the opposite.... - http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/post...
Be a Gamer, Save the World - WSJ.com We often think of immersive computer and videogames—like “FarmVille,” “Guitar Hero” and “World of Warcraft”—as “escapist,” a kind of passive retreat from reality. Many critics consider such games a mind-numbing waste of time, if not a corrupting influence. But the truth about games is very nearly the opposite. In today’s society, they consistently fulfill genuine human needs that the real world fails to satisfy. More than that, they may prove to be a key resource for solving some of our most pressing real-world problems. Hundreds of millions of people around the globe are already devoting larger and larger chunks of time to this alternate reality. Collectively, we spend three billion hours a week gaming. In the United States, where there are 183 million active gamers, videogames took in about $15.5 billion last year. And though a typical gamer plays for just an hour or two a day, there are now more than five million “extreme” gamers in the U.S. who play an average of 45 hours a week. To put this in perspective, the number of hours that gamers world-wide have spent playing “World of Warcraft” alone adds up to 5.93 million years. Ideas Market Ms. McGonigal will discuss her new book this week on Review’s Ideas Market blog. These gamers aren’t rejecting reality entirely, of course. They have careers, goals, schoolwork, families and real lives that they care about. But as they devote more of their free time to game worlds, they often feel that the real world is missing something. Gamers want to know: Where in the real world is the gamer’s sense of being fully alive, focused and engaged in every moment? The real world just doesn’t offer up the same sort of carefully designed pleasures, thrilling challenges and powerful social bonding that the gamer finds in virtual environments. Reality doesn’t motivate us as effectively. Reality isn’t engineered to maximize our potential or to make us happy. Those who continue to dismiss games as merely escapist entertainment will find themselves at a major disadvantage in the years ahead, as more gamers start to harness this power for real good. My research over the past decade at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Institute for the Future has shown that games consistently provide us with the four ingredients that make for a happy and meaningful life: satisfying work, real hope for success, strong social connections and the chance to become a part of something bigger than ourselves.
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The Next Generation of Renewable Energy May Be Created Under Water - Environment - GOOD But renewable energy includes another force of nature: water. Hydropower projects—in other words, dams—account for the majority of the country’s renewable energy generation, but because they’re old and unexciting, they’re squeezed out of accounts of renewable... - http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/post...
The Next Generation of Renewable Energy May Be Created Under Water - Environment - GOOD But renewable energy includes another force of nature: water. Hydropower projects—in other words, dams—account for the majority of the country’s renewable energy generation, but because they’re old and unexciting, they’re squeezed out of accounts of renewable energy’s triumphant climb. Tidal power, though, fits right in with wind and solar: A new Department of Energy report calls it “one of the fastest-growing emerging technologies in the renewable sector,” which means that, like solar, it’s small, but appears to have nearly boundless potential. Together, conventional hydropower, tidal and wave power, and other water-powered resources could provide 15 percent of America’s electricity by 2030, the Department of Energy projects. Tidal power is just beginning to emerge as a commercially viable source of power. Last week, a federal energy regulation agency granted the first-ever commercial license for a tidal power project, which will have a maximum of 30 turbines working under the surface of New York City’s East River. The agency has also issued 100 preliminary permits to projects in earlier stages.
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 Marc Alt on Hacking the Food System: Urban Rural Global Local | Food Tech Connect The question I propose is this: While hacking and re-imagining the food system here in the U.S., can we interact with, learn from and collaborate with like-minds on a global scale to meet the needs of growing populations in a resource constrained world? - http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/post...
 Marc Alt on Hacking the Food System: Urban Rural Global Local | Food Tech Connect The question I propose is this: While hacking and re-imagining the food system here in the U.S., can we interact with, learn from and collaborate with like-minds on a global scale to meet the needs of growing populations in a resource constrained world?
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Fare thee well #AndyPiper - To Secondary Ryan’s emotion, Andy Piper has been a paragon of the 21st Century... http://jackmason.tumblr.com/post...
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