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Doug Vining
Don't charge that phone!
Posted: 18 June 2013
Back in 2005 we suggested that, in the future, we would have phones that didn't need to be charged the way we do now. That was pretty radical thinking, remembering that, at the time, the iPhone hadn't been invented. Now it seems this futuristic idea is fast becoming reality!
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Gizmos and Gadgets: Self-Charging Cell Phones Coming Soon
18 June 2013
Smartphones are too smart for their own good. Users have come to rely on them so much that they constantly need recharging. The batteries just can't keep ...
NEVER CHARGE YOUR PHONE AGAIN
New nanotechnologies set to scramble battery makers
Dateline: 15 August 2011
From a consumer point of view Motorola's new technology announcements may just mean more convenience. For battery manufacturers this could be the ...
Anton Musgrave
China leads the way in supercomputing
Posted: 18 June 2013
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With Big Data on everyone's lips it's interesting to observe Chinas progress in building raw computing power. Will this achievement give them some advantage over the rest of the world or will it simply enable the Chinese to maintain their growth. Certainly it seems that their progress in innovation and science is gaining speed. Recent revelations on data spying, industrial espionage and so on ...
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Chinese supercomputer world's fastest
18 June 2013
China has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the previous US holder and underlining the country's rise as a science and ...
CHINA IS TOP OF THE FLOPS
Supercomputer breaks the exaflop barrier
Dateline: 27 January 2019
China's Tianhe-9B has trumped America's Oak Ridge Labs in the race to exascale computing, with a full 1,000 petaflop record. Despite all their tweaking, ...
Neil Jacobsohn
The Avatar will see you now!
Posted: 17 June 2013
Medicine is only one of all the industries be affected, disintermediated and reinvented through technology. How do you feel about doing your recovery therapy with an avatar? How long before the scenario we wrote about in 2008 in the MindBullet alongside becomes reality?
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The Avatar Will See You Now | MIT Technology Review
17 June 2013
Medical centers are testing new, friendly ways to reduce the need for office visits by extending their reach into patients’ homes.
TAKE TWO ASPIRIN AND WE'LL GOOGLE YOU IN THE MORNING
Another blow for traditional health care as virtual doctors rule
Dateline: 26 May 2012
It all started way back in 2008 with consolidating patient records. Next came online medical consultations. And now the latest revolution in health ...
Neil Jacobsohn
Data becomes the new currency
Posted: 14 June 2013
We've said for years now that YOU are increasingly becoming the product! Businesses like Facebook, Google and Yahoo have no real 'product' beyond what you, as the user, creates. So it seems logical that advertisers will start targeting those individuals who wield influence in this networked world. How long before the new-age power-brokers are digitally recognized as they enter a restaurant, ...
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Yahoo mulls ads based on influence
14 June 2013
Yahoo has published a patent detailing how ad charges could be based on a viewer's "social influence".
WE'RE ALL SLAVES TO BIG DATA
Information overload and too much choice lead to anxiety and depression
Dateline: 22 April 2016
Three years ago, in 2013, the world was trying to estimate what the true size and impact of 'Big Data' would be. It seems like we got much more than we ...
Wolfgang Grulke
Aspirational invisibility
Posted: 13 June 2013
Of all possible aspirations that an upwardly mobile individual might have in this information-dense world, becoming 'invisible' to Google and Facebook would seem to be the least likely. Not so! As this article argues, being 'unGoogleable' will soon be the ultimate chic!
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Internet anonymity is the height of chic
13 June 2013
In this age of information overload, internet exhibitionism and NSA snooping, is it possible to make yourself unGoogleable? And does it earn you added ...
BIG GOOGLE IS WATCHING YOU
Watch that phone hanging from your employee's neck - it's a webcam!
Dateline: 19 April 2008
In the UK, Big Brother is watching, and shouting at you. Dutch TV is hounding someone caught sunbathing topless on Google Earth - so everyone now knows ...
Wolfgang Grulke
BMW joins the driverless fray
Posted: 9 June 2013
The BMW 5-series steers, speeds up and overtakes on the autobahn! Our 2004 MindBullet is nearing!
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Hands off the wheel Tommy - for you the driving is over
9 June 2013
I’m in an ordinary 5-series BMW in the fast lane of the autobahn, ploughing through rush-hour traffic on the outskirts of Munich. The drivers I’m ...
HUMAN DRIVERS BANNED FROM ALL HIGHWAYS
"We can save a million lives a year" says Automobile Association
Dateline: 2 November 2018
The British Government today passed legislation banning all human-driven motor vehicles from highways, effective one year from today. The move has been ...
MindBullets Editors
THE FUTURE OF MANUFACTURING IS ABUNDANTLY CLEAR
Published on: 6 June 2013
Dancing atoms will end the age of resource scarcity
Dateline: 18 September 2023
Technology has always driven the progress of manufacturing, from the first time one of our ancestors carved a flint tool, to the Industrial Revolution and beyond. We've seen the Information Age rewrite the rules of manufacturing. We've seen 3D printing revolutionize the way we make things, and even 4D manufacturing is now commonplace. But few imagined that the nanotechnology dream first articulated in 1986 by K. Eric Drexler with his seminal book 'Engines of Creation', the science of atomic-level ...
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Neil Jacobsohn
The dark side of Big Data
Posted: 3 June 2013
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Big Data is the magic bullet of the moment, with virtually every major organisation looking at how they can profit and perform more efficiently from the sea of data in which we are swimming. And indeed, there are gold mines hidden inside our filing cabinets and computer disks. But beware over-dependence on data - as the attached article powerfully relates.
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Robert McNamara and the Dangers of Big Data at Ford and in the Vietnam War | MIT Technology Review
3 June 2013
Robert McNamara epitomizes the hyper-rational executive led astray by numbers.
WE'RE ALL SLAVES TO BIG DATA
Information overload and too much choice lead to anxiety and depression
Dateline: 22 April 2016
Three years ago, in 2013, the world was trying to estimate what the true size and impact of 'Big Data' would be. It seems like we got much more than we ...
Wolfgang Grulke
How time flies...
Posted: 5 June 2013
We published our first MindBullet almost ten years ago, on 21 August 2003. The subject was 4D printing in the home - a subject that is now just entering media consciousness! They said we were "crazy". Yes, but were we being crazy enough?!
4D printing is building things at an atomic (quantum) level, as opposed to 3D printing which is essentially building things one molecule at a time. ...
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BEAM ME UP A BURGER, SCOTTY!
Dinner from Sony – made atom by atom, molecule by molecule
Dateline: 9 February 2010
Pushing the trolley around the supermarket looks soon to become a thing of the past. You can now make almost anything you want, custom-built, right in your kitchen, using the new Sony Nano Assembler. This gizmo is a microwave look-alike - at least superficially. By using the atoms available in your garbage, the Sony P1 is able to assemble anything - from a fresh lettuce to a spare part for ...
Doug Vining
Pizza printer
Posted: 4 June 2013
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NASA is sponsoring a project to develop a 3D printer that prints food, in space. Quite a cool idea for hungry space tourists. The first request from the electronic chef is for a pizza!
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Home-baked idea? Nasa mulls 3D printers for food replication
4 June 2013
New technology could have wider commercial application or even aid the fight against world hunger
FOOD IS NOTHING BUT I.P.
Billionaire digital chef creates the ultimate franchise
Dateline: 12 October 2023
When the first 3D ink-jet printers appeared, they were typically used for high-tech applications that could justify the cost. Leading-edge medicine was an ...
Anton Musgrave
Siri has a name change.
Posted: 3 June 2013
We all have memories, some not so fond, of the first consumer smart assistant in our phones. Fear not, the smart I-Assistant has been overtaken by the next generation of really smart support...'Watson' I presume ! Armed with voice recognition language barriers will crumble, smart answers will become ubiquitous and teenagers will lose their competitive advantage in arguments with Mom or Dad! ...
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IBM's Watson Headed to Your Smartphone as Customer Service Agent | MIT Technology Review
3 June 2013
The software that obliterated human champions on Jeopardy will now be talking to customers of banks and other companies through websites and mobile apps.
AI AGENT WINS NOBEL PRIZE
Researcher makes physics breakthrough with artificial help
Dateline: 2 October 2010
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences shocked the scientific community yesterday by announcing that the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to an ...
Neil Jacobsohn
Big Brother knows how you feel!
Posted: 3 June 2013
Welcome to the world of Affective Computing - technology the analyses human emotions, from the sound of your voice to your facial expressions, and is able to work out how you are feeling. The response could be anything from calling medical assistance to playing some happy music.
It's evolving science, but holds the promise of all sorts of interesting new outputs. What could you do with this ...
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Technology That Knows When to Hand You a Hankie | MIT Technology Review
3 June 2013
Happy? Sad? A startup called Beyond Verbal has developed technology that can understand how you’re feeling just by listening to your voice.
IT KNOWS WHAT YOU'RE THINKING
Now we can communicate with our thoughts - and technology
Dateline: 13 June 2019
For generations, people have dreamed of communicating with their thoughts. Now, thanks to the first commercial device that successfully reads brainwaves ...
Anton Musgrave
Super computer in your pocket?
Posted: 29 May 2013
What disruptions will happen when we all carry a super computer, (remember IBM's Watson Computer?) in our smart phone? Think of many intermediaries or purveyors of information that you know...Doctors, Lawyers, Private Bankers, Auditors, etc. How will they stay relevant? Where will value be created in future?
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IBM's Watson Headed to Your Smartphone as Customer Service Agent | MIT Technology Review
29 May 2013
The software that obliterated human champions on Jeopardy will now be talking to customers of banks and other companies through websites and mobile apps.
AI AGENT WINS NOBEL PRIZE
Researcher makes physics breakthrough with artificial help
Dateline: 2 October 2010
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences shocked the scientific community yesterday by announcing that the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to an ...
Anton Musgrave
Internet of Things Approaches
Posted: 29 May 2013
Just imagine a world where everything is connected...billions of things all in a web of opportunity! The solutions around the data flows will be fascinating, useful and confusing...unless you get in to the mode of innovative thinking on the possibilities soon. Imagine your business web, with every person and thing connected intelligently? What does this offer?
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Tiny Computers That Collect Data from Anywhere | MIT Technology Review
29 May 2013
A computer two millimeters square is the start of an effort to make chips that can put computer power just about anywhere for the vaunted “Internet of ...
BIG GOOGLE IS WATCHING YOU
Watch that phone hanging from your employee's neck - it's a webcam!
Dateline: 19 April 2008
In the UK, Big Brother is watching, and shouting at you. Dutch TV is hounding someone caught sunbathing topless on Google Earth - so everyone now knows ...
Doug Vining
Google goes global
Posted: 28 May 2013
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Google is finally executing on its strategy to connect up the "other 3 billion" with its own wireless networks. This was something they originally hoped to do with satellites, but are now considering blimps and high altitude aircraft.
The MindBullet linked here explored this scenario almost five years ago! ...
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Google blimps will carry wireless signal across Africa (Wired UK)
28 May 2013
Search giant Google is intending to build huge wireless networks across Africa and Asia, using high-altitude balloons and blimps
DIGITAL DROUGHT DISAPPEARS
Upstart satellite operator creates bandwidth flood
Dateline: 15 May 2011
The Google-funded satellite communications company O3b has transformed the cost of internet access in all those hard-to-reach places, by launching dozens ...
Doug Vining
Digital sniper rifle
Posted: 29 May 2013
The age of digital conflict is already upon us. You don't need skill to aim and fire a sniper rifle, just some electronic wizardry.
The future is closer than we think! ...
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'Self-aiming' rifle turns novices into expert snipers
29 May 2013
First time firing a gun? There's help at hand – a new "self-aiming" rifle can help even a novice hit the target at long range on the first go. But the ...
WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE WAR DAD?
Digital conflict has changed the rules of engagement
Dateline: 12 December 2050
My grandson was asking about my personal experience in the Vietnam War. He simply cannot understand how we could possibly have lived (and fought) with ...
Neil Jacobsohn
The future is always messy!
Posted: 27 May 2013
The future is always messy! As new economy ideas hit up against the established marketplace, there are bound to be sparks. So where's the creative, innovative solution? Which smart insurance company will spot the gap and take advantage, as we discussed in the MindBullet alongside?
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Car-sharing service RelayRides halts service after cease-and-desist letter | SmartPlanet
27 May 2013
Yet another peer-to-peer service comes up against regulatory hurdles in New York State.
INSURANCE BECOMES REAL-TIME
As risk increases, so does your cover - automatically and effortlessly
Dateline: 27 March 2016
Taking out insurance cover has always been a pain. Bureaucracy and boring paperwork were the order of the day - but no more. The networked world and ...
Neil Jacobsohn
Now you can publish that book!
Posted: 27 May 2013
Everyone has a book in them, so the saying goes - and now it is becoming super-easy to publish it, thanks to Amazon. Another challenge to industrial-age business models, of which the established publishing industry is a classic example. Let the market speak!
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Amazon’s Kindle Worlds gives fan fiction new legitimacy | SmartPlanet
27 May 2013
Amazon’s new publishing platform may be a genius business move, but without any serious quality control, will the market be flooded with bad wri
APPLE, AMAZON E-PRICING OVERTURNED
eBooks, eMovies and eMusic "rip-off" stopped by social networks
Dateline: 8 November 2012
No one really knows how Apple managed to get away with its iTunes pricing for so long, but now consumers have teamed up on social networking platforms to ...
Neil Jacobsohn
Design your own car - and then print it?
Posted: 27 May 2013
Sure, for years we have been customizing our cars, and building cars from scratch from kits. But how about designing your very own car over the Internet? Crowd-sourcing moves to a new level! And when additive manufacturing, or 3D-printing as it is better known, becomes mainstream, why then, you can design AND print your own customized super-car, using the local Post Office!
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Consumers are starting to design cars over the Internet | SmartPlanet
27 May 2013
Some auto manufacturers are dipping their toes into co-creation with customers, seeking design preferences via online communities, social network site
THE POST OFFICE ISN'T DEAD - IT'S JUST BEEN REINVENTED!
They're becoming high-tech 3D print shops
Dateline: 9 November 2014
Five years ago everyone was predicting the collapse of postal services from Argentina to Zimbabwe. After all, the use of 'snailmail' had dwindled to a ...
Neil Jacobsohn
How NOT to start a business!
Posted: 22 May 2013
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We regularly tell business audiences that there's a new breed of company and entrepreneur out there, focused ruthlessly and relentlessly not on process, but on the customer. Against that background, here's some countter-intuitive advice from a pair of successful young Turks.
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Everything you’ve heard about starting a business is wrong | SmartPlanet
22 May 2013
Two entrepreneurs have some advice for would-be startup founders: Don’t spend too much time planning when you should be selling.
OLD JOBS DIE, NET WORK BOOMS
As traditional employment falls, entrepreneurship has never been stronger
Dateline: 17 September 2016
Isn't it interesting how often predictions about the future turn out to be completely wrong? Take the astonishing explosion of technology. The fear was ...
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