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A swarm of Nano Quadrotors

stuff i likeHey, watch this clip. Cool, but at the same time scary since you cannot help thinking of military applications. The questions is: what other kind of applications can you imaging for this technology?  

Go change the world

Thoughts on life“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it. You can influence it. You can build your own things that other people can use.” — Steve Jobs  

Gamify your toilets

gamificationOver the years I have heard many ideas of how to use games in different settings, for example putting a bicycle game in front of the gym bikes having the customers at the gym competing with each other, burning more calories. Or, as we proposed to energy companies in Sweden when I worked for Tieto, having customers compete with each others in energy savings. This is the first time that I have heard about using games in the toilets.  

Touch screens that touch back

user interfacesA strong trend in technology is natural user interfaces that let people interact with computers in an intuitive way. Think Segway and multitouch. I just found this demo of a touch interface that actually “touches you back”, that is can be programmed to feel like different structures. Cool. It will be interesting to see how  

Is Facebook overvalued? Naah, I don’t know anymore…

facebooksocial mediaI used to say that Facebook is overvalued. I’m not so sure anymore – Facebook is now the de-facto platform for the social layer on the web, just as Google is the de-facto platform for indexed search. Watch this video and try to grasp the figures.  
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