Seen that? – Kraftwerk and the future
Kraftwerk and the future The Techwear Weblog
it's sunday again: I just bought the "Minimum-Maximum" CD from Kraftwerk (amazing), the german electro music pioneers. The first song is "Die Mensch-Maschine" (the man machine) and the lyrics is: the man machine half creature and half thing What expresses the original vision of wearable computing. That has changed. The new lyrics could be: the man machine creature things surround him (the picture and much more concert pictures from Jan Moesen) [...] Read More
Future Skin The Techwear Weblog
A breakthrough in nanotechnology – that is more important for techwear then ever before: chemists from the University of Arkansas announced the first 3D-form from nanomaterials. The advancement from 2D to 3D makes textiles possible. Nano is not a micro-micro-picture of something funny anymore, but a pulp you can make fabrics from. Ok, thats a bit fast because we're still inside the university. But it's the next step and it [...] Read More
Future is close The Techwear Weblog
If you're not in New York but want's to know how the future may look like – just give yourself 5 minutes for this little picture show from the Wired Next Fest. It's just amazing. Read a bit about it here and then: give yourself a future rest: WIRED NEXTFEST Photo gallery [...] Read More
Predicting nanotech’s immediate future Nanotechbuzz
Much of what has been written about nanotech revolves around fairly advanced/far future scenarios. What however do you thing are going to be some of the impacts and applications over the next few years? That's the question Jose Garcia at Meme Therapy posed to me and two other nanotechnologists in a Brain Parade entitled, "Nanotech's immediate future". In my answer I focused on nanosensors and biosensors. Professor David Berube addressed them [...] Read More
CEOs and the future Sox First
How can we tell whether a company will keep innovating? Check the language of the CEO, according to a new study.In their paper, Managing the Future: CEO Attention and Innovation Outcomes, the researchers Manjit Yadav, Jaideep Prabhu and Rajesh Chandy analysed data relevant to the innovation process in the internet banking industry. The data was broken into three parts: speed of detection, speed of development, and breadth of deployment of [...] Read More