The Bee's Knees: IBM's RFID to Track Prosthetics " Implanet, a manufacturer of implantable medical devices hopes to keep my dad's knees intact by using IBM RFID solutions to alert him to recalls. According to a recent press release, the company will embed the tags into knee and hip replacements and use them to [...]

The End of the Virtual: Digital Methods "I would like to put forward a new era in Internet research, which no longer concerns itself with the divide between the real and the virtual. It concerns a shift in the kinds of questions put to the study of the Internet. The Internet is employed as [...]

Imperfect Futures – CFO Magazine – July/August 2009 Issue – CFO.com "Forecasting, never an activity companies felt particularly confident about, has now become nearly impossible. Processes that once resulted in mildly imperfect visions of the future now produce wildly imperfect ones. "The last 8 to 12 months have created a strong realization among many [...]

The Coming Age of Calm Technology Weiser and Seely Brown's paper building on the PARC 'ubicomp' research programme outlining a 'coming age of calm technology'. The article reprdoces Weiser's ideas about historical 'waves' of progress in computing. (tags: research ubicomp anticipation envisioning forecasting weiser computing) A [...]

ARToolKit Professional On the up – "ARToolKit is the world’s most popular library for augmented reality application development. With a ten-year development pedigree, an active community edition with thousands of users, and ongoing development incorporating the latest results of augmented reality research…" (tags: augmentedreality software iphone API game

Medical Augmented Reality | Beyond The Beyond Medical AR vision video depicting the ability to see 'into' a body using AR overlays. Not unlike MS 'future vision of personal health'. (tags: anticipation video vision forecasting augmentedreality biopolitics health) Thingiverse – Digital Designs for Physical Objects "Thingiverse [...]

Augmented Reality: A Human Interface for Ambient Intelligence RWW write-up on AR, giving a commentary explaining the whys and wherefores. The author runs the Bay Area Augmented Reality Meetup Group, so its a bit evangelical. Some interesting links to example services. Also commentary on 'ambient intelligence': "Ambient intelligence is a human interface metaphor. It [...]

IBM and The Internet of Things "IBM is involved in some very interesting projects at the intersection of two big trends we've been tracking in 2009: The Real-time Web and Internet of Things. They have a website devoted to this topic, called A Smarter Planet. As the name implies, it focuses on environmental matters [...]

IPhone Augmented Reality Apps Expected in September "The dazzling new trend of "augmented reality" mobile applications, software that puts layers of information on top of a mobile device's camera viewer, is something that's left iPhone owners feeling out of luck. Now one company developing such an app says Apple has said the technology required [...]

ACM International Workshop on Ambient Media Computing: Media Data Integration (MDI 2009) "In multimedia computing and management, ambient/ubiquitous/pervasive media integration is attracting a lot of attention. In particular, we are seeing large quantities of media data generated from various sources and presented to users. New emerging applications, such as digital entertainment, gaming, and e-learning, [...]