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This week's Foresight Building headline: There's a new smartphone app - take a picture of your eye with it's camera and it will calculate your vision correction perscription.
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Past headlines to stimulate Future Awareness™ thinking 7-11 is selling Farmville merchandise tying their brick & mortar with Facebook virtual world. Our current 4 digit based IP address stucture will run out of numbers in 2012 and the new 6 digit base. The challenge? They are neither compatible nor upgradable so how do we simultaneously change them all? A New York professor has built a two-armed nanorobotic device with the ability to place specific atoms and molecules where scientists want them. New research shows fetuses build short and long term memories in utero Newest gaming systems sense your body movements to play - no controllers! University of Houston if offering a certificate for Stategic Foresight Pretty soon you'll be able to lay electronic devices on a changing pad - no more cords! Bare Conductive is a "skin-safe, conductive ink. When painted on the skin, it allows a current to be passed through the body without causing an electric shock. Research published in PLoS Biology that demonstrates the reawakening of latent human cells' ability to manufacture an HIV defense A cloak of illusion, or a material that disguises one object as another, is being developed by scientists in Hong Kong. High school student discovers a mirco-organism that will bio-degrade plastics quickly. BMW is building the ultimate nanny machine — a car that will safely guide itself to a stop and notify the authorities if the driver suffers a heart attack, stroke or other medical emergency and can no longer drive. Scientists at MIT have invented a small antenna capable of picking up all radio signals (radio, TV, GPS,wireless internet etc.) paving the way for new multi-frequency devices. A patent has been filed for a triangle shaped touch screen keyboard to all but end typing errors on portable touchscreen devices. The US Federal Government launched the new Data.Gov website. The primary goal of Data.Gov is to improve access to Federal data and expand creative use of those data beyond the walls of government by encouraging innovative ideas A new telescope, surgically implanted into a patient's eye, helps alleviate macular degeneration. Now a new kind of agent is starting to roam the web that can understand the emotional content of what we write – and they could soon arrive on your desktop too Fruit and veggies without the fuss are the promise of a new robot being developed by scientists at M.I.T. The robot could someday plant, tend and harvest your garden for you. A miniature telescope that fits inside the eye of someone with macular degeneration and helps them regain normal vision has been developed by VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies. Nanoparticles that first illuminate, and could then destroy hidden tumors have been created by scientists at the University of California, San Diego The Terrafugia Transition - a car with a carbon fiber frame that converts to a plane in about 30 seconds - has made it's first successful flight A new type of glass, made from opaque titanium and zirconium instead of transparent silicon, is harder and tougher -- and weighs less -- than stainless steel. It could one day replace steel and aluminum in a wide variety of products, from golf clubs to airplanes. Two US groups announced transistors almost 1000 times smaller than those in use today and a version of flash memory that could hold the entire Library of Congress on a 4" square drive. Scientists have forged a promising avenue in the quest to restore mobility to patients paralyzed by disease and injury by rerouting signals from the brain's motor cortex to trigger hand movement directly. Kind of like the Marauder's Map in "Harry Potter" iGoogle's Navigator will let users track the location of their friends. Small cameras can now be embedded in the video screens displaying ads in public venues. Software tracks who looks at the screen and for how long. It can determine the viewer's gender, approx. age, and sometimes ethnicity and change the ad based on that input. Doctors may soon be able to diagnose disease from your breath and the air around your body using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. A devise is being developed to use for quick diagnosis right in the doctor's office. 200,000 users of Eve, an Online game, were asked to select 9 representatives from the on-line community to meet twice a year with the company leadership to express concerns and share their user-perspective suggestions. Human efficiency is being upped in buildings with multiple elevator shafts. Instead of up and down button, keypads let you select which floor and then a computer tells you which elevator will get you there the quickest. Using an LED plastic light filter and some wires, scientists at UCLA have modified a cell phone into a portable blood tester capable of detecting HIV, malaria & other diseases at even the most remote villages. Earth Class Mail- sign up to have your 'snail' mail sent to them, they scan it - unopened then uploaded to secure, private, online in box. Shoppers and stores have given a thumbs up to a hand-held device that maps out the fastest route to the best priced item you're looking for or can make suggest -ions on how to enjoy an after- noon in mall. MIT researchers use nano tubes to target delivery of anti-cancer drugs. A panel on Cyber Security is recommending the end to reliance on passwords. Instead, users would have to be carrying a device to gain access to networks. Fuel cells, capable of delivering days of power to laptops will be commercially available within 2-3 years. On today's Internet, algorithms rule. But a handful of startups are using large-scale human participation to offer online services that computers alone can't deliver.
By 2012, desktop software will be a quaint
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