Via fellow futurist Scott Smith, this pretty amazing concept piece: the Wearable Pregnancy Ultrasound. The description: PreVue is a solution to enhancing maternal-fetal bonding as a reassurance window.
New York Times blogger KJ Dell'Antonia has a piece on the Motherlode parenting blog about Memi, a new smart bracelet that aims to selectively inform users-- in this
Tech writer Michael Thomsen has a piece in Complex Tech about a new iPhone app that "wants to make you a better lover." Inevitably named Spreadsheets, it uses
"In its latest ad, with an "if you can't beat em, join 'em" message, Apple isn’t carving aspirational ground, it’s caving to people's vices," Jennifer Rooney declares. She's
Sherry Turkle recently published an op ed in the New York Times about selfies and "The Documented Life." In it, she argues that the focus on taking selfies,
Webki, a London-based group about which I can find very little-- their Web site doesn't say who works there, their Flickr account has pictures from one event in
Recently, Mercury News columnist Michelle Quinn argued that we shouldn't "blame smartphones for turning us into the digitally dazed." I don't buy the notion that our phones have
For a while now I've been talking about how smartphones behave like kids. Recently I got some actual kids together to illustrate the point. This video was a
From a 1999 Douglas Adams essay (via BBC's Tom Chatfield): We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a
Granted, this is from the Daily Mail, which tends to the alarmist and anecdotal, so take it with a grain of salt: Toddlers these days are barely out