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Viewpoints

How tech will shape a future of situational skincare

Taking cues from fitness and health apps, Routinely co-founder Charlotte Van Loock is using data to tailor and adapt skincare routines to people's ...

Beauty : Technology : Health And Wellness

News

Hyundai's QR code store a teaser for next-gen retail

Retail conglomerate Hyundai is exploring the future of shopping with the opening of a hyper-connected and data-driven store, tapping into the spend...

Retail : Design : Technology

News

Dimpact is a carbon calculator for streaming services

Computer science researchers at the University of Bristol are encouraging streaming services to monitor and challenge their digital carbon footprint.

Tech : Carbon Footprint : Carbon Emissions

Big Ideas

Beauty & Wellness 2030: Ritualistic, analytical and nostalgic

In the decade ahead, beauty and wellbeing consumers will push back against superficial appearances to analyse and augment their physical beings.

Beauty : Wellness : Technology

Big Ideas

Why it’s time to bring men into the fertility conversation

Lea von Bidder, co-founder and CEO of Ava Science, on creating a more open discussion about fertility and how attitudes to pregnancy are changing.

Pregnancy : Pregnant : Women's Health

News

Ai Weiwei’s Hansel & Gretel examines the rise of surveillance culture

New York – The installation features a variety of tracking technologies.

Digital : Culture : Technology

Big Ideas

Dublin Web Summit 2015: Power of privacy

Dublin – Privacy is the next big battleground for brands, according to Wickr founder Nico Sell.

Wickr : Wickr Foundation : Encryption

News

Preview: NO_THING

Milan – This week’s Innovate shows how projection-mapping could turn the built environment into an interface sooner than we first thought.

Interface : Milan Expo 2015 : Interaction

Design Directions

NO_THING

NO_THING shows how projection-mapping can turn the built environment into an interface.

Interface : Milan Expo : Interaction

News

Escape the city

London – Channel 4 is showing commuters just how susceptible they are to surveillance for the launch of new show Hunted.

Hunted : 4Creative : Off-grid

News

Type unseen

London – Central Saint Martins MA graduate Emil Kozole has created a typeface that automatically censors itself. Typography project aims to highl...

Project Seen : Emil Kozole : Central St Martins

Big Ideas

New monitoring system tracks a user’s sleep and environment

The Sense sleep monitoring system assesses a user’s quality of sleep as well as his or her sleeping environment in one sleek package.

Self Quants : Self-quantification : Sleep Monitoring

Big Ideas

Withings launches smartwatch with classic design cues

The French consumer electronics company has launched Activité, a stylish smartwatch that digitally tracks your health and fitness levels.

Withings : Smartwatch : Wearable Tech

Design Directions

Mother

As human needs evolve and technology advances to create solutions to these fluctuating needs, we are accumulating a lot of devices. Once a device h...

Data-tracking : Internet Of Things : Self Quant

Big Ideas

CES: Phone gives Gen I a safe intro to tech

CES 2014: Phone gives Gen I a safe intro to tech.

Kurio : Smartphone : CES

News

CES: Child’s play: FiLIP shows smart wristwear for kids

Las Vegas – FiLIP, which is described by its maker as the world’s first smart locator and phone for kids, is on view in the WristRevolution Tech Zo...

CES : FiLIP : Smart Locator

Big Ideas

Wristband will improve security in a heartbeat

Nymi : Tracking : Security

Big Ideas

Citizen harnesses employees’ personal data

Portland, Oregon – Since 2011, followers of the Self-Quant movement have been harnessing the power of their own data. Now mobile technology company...

Data : Self Quantifying : Productivity

News

On track: McDonald's app scans for food provenance

Sydney – McDonald’s Australia has released the TrackMyMacca’s app, which customers can use to scan a range of products, including the Big Mac and C...

Tracking : Supply Chains : Food Quality

Communities

InPatients

Looking after your health used to mean sporadic trips to the doctor, then taking medicine if you became ill. Now a more sophisticated approach to w...

Tracking : MedMinder : Outpatient

News

Smart move: Adidas kick-starts miCoach in US

Adidas : MiCoach : Self-Quants

Design Directions

Up

As we reported in our Personal Information Economy macrotrend, a set of early-adopting members of the Self-Quants tribe have been going to great le...

Tracking : Measure : Progress

Design Directions

The adiZero F50

Self-quantification is informing the lives of thousands. As it becomes easier to gather personal information digitally, people are using that infor...

Tracking : Fun : PIE

Micro Trends

UPDATE: Check-in Culture

First we wrote about Check-In Culture. We noticed that people started checking in at their favourite places on Foursquare and Gowalla. We then noti...

Tracking : Auto Check-in : Nike+

News

Mountain pass: Tracking skiers on the slopes

Tracking : Colorado : Skiing