Think that mobile social apps are a waste of time and energy? What if you could use them to make the world a better place? Inhabitat took a look at mobile-based applications and systems designed to promote positive social good. Here are five rising social impact apps to watch.
The Extraordinaries Unable to [...]
5 minute video involving several leaps of faith for the future of the internet of things. To be fair, one of the narrators at the end admits these are the baby step years for the internet of things.
Internet of Things defined as the point when data about things is greater than data about people.
You might [...]
We try to get hopeful in this class, on the way to final presentations.
If products could tell their stories april 18
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It’s not every day that we get to see a Federally-funded hack:
More of the story here if you want to make one yourself.
Op-Chart in the NYTimes on the weekend of the iPad launch - a lifecycle analysis of the iPad, timely for discussing the core element of analysis in LCA - the functional unit.
Daniel Goleman, author of Ecological Intelligence and Gregory Norris, LCA software expert at Harvard authored the “chart” comparing e-readers. The authors compared the Kindle, [...]
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