OnePage wants to make business cards a thing of the past. Hmmm… heard that one before! Looks OK but not sure it’ll make everyone throw their business cards away. Prove me wrong, but it’s a ‘not’ from me.
Software might know if you’re depressed – researchers used Bing to analyse word patterns to identify depression. Think it’s a good idea but wouldn’t want to be in the 22% that were wrongly diagnosed, particularly by my boss. Another ‘not’ I’m afraid…
Microsoft’s Home of the Future: A Visual Tour – technology that gives me recipes on my kitchen work surface depending on ingredients, charges my phone automatically and gives me interactive walls in my bedroom? Hmmmmn let me see… hot! No brainer.
Working Toward a Smarter, Faster Cloud – different types of cloud applications have different needs, so computer science researcher Vytautas Valancius has developed Transit Protocol, a system that lets cloud users choose that path their data takes through cloud computing platforms. Definitely ‘hot’ I reckon.
Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr Robot Would you be happy with a robot teaching your child? Depends on how good/bad the human teacher is, but regardless, I don’t think this one will catch on – not.
