Innovation

Maker movement and open hardware

The world is ours to make: The impact of the maker movement presented in several videos. Maker movement and open hardare are keys to many today’s hardware innovations.   What Is Open Source Hardware? Open Source Hardware Explained – EEVblog #195 Meet the Makers: Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries   WHY DO OPEN HARDWARE? –

Razor-thin profits are cutting into newspapers’ chances at innovation

Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab: Newspaper companies will continue to struggle with digital innovation without better cashflow — Newsonomics: Razor-thin profits are cutting into newspapers’ chances at innovation Newsonomics: Razor-thin profits are cutting into newspapers’ chances at innovation http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/05/newsonomics-razor-thin-profits-are-cutting-into-newspapers-chances-at-innovation/ It’s taken lots of cuts to keep American newspaper companies even slightly profitable. But without better

Looking for Computing Reboot

IEEE has an interesting working group and web page called Rebooting Computing. “Rebooting Computing” was coined by IEEE Life Fellow Peter Denning as part of his National Science Foundation-sponsored initiative to revamp computing education. The group will work from a holistic viewpoint, taking into account evolutionary and revolutionary approaches. Why this is important? Computing Needs

Acoustruments

I read There’s a Way to Control Phones With Sound, Not Electronics article I read yesterday interesting. It says that researcher Gierad Laput thinks the future of smartphone interaction could look a lot like playing the flute as he has developed together with Eric Brockmeyer, from the Disney Research Lab, a series of phone accessories