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“Square has just put the word out that it is rolling out to 30 NY taxis today, but instead of the white scanners we’ve come to love, riders will be the first to lay their eyes on brand new, rather sexy hardware. As you can see in the picture, it’s quite gorgeous. Square replaced the annoying LCD with an iPad, letting you to pay while the trip is in progress. Plus, it even sends receipts right to your phone or email.”
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“The strongest impacts of an emergent technology are always unanticipated. You can’t know what people are going to do until they get their hands on it and start using it on a daily basis, using it to make a buck and using it for criminal purposes and all the different things that people do. The people who invented pagers, for instance, never imagined that they would change the shape of urban drug dealing all over the world. But pagers so completely changed drug dealing that they ultimately resulted in pay phones being removed from cities as part of a strategy to prevent them from becoming illicit drug markets. We’re increasingly aware that our society is driven by these unpredictable uses we find for the products of our imagination.”
— WIlliam Gibson - The Art of Fiction No. 211
(Source: nearfuturelaboratory.com)
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“There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.”
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A Year’s Worth of Play All On One Map by Mudlark is an interactive map of London’s Underground showing all of the journeys made through each station in 2011 by people playing Chromaroma in the capital.
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“How is information technology shaping public space in today’s cities? What opportunities do new technologies offer to empower and activate citizens? And how can we hack these technological systems to do more for us? “
Adam Greenfield at Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin as part of Innovation Dublin 2011.
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Korean startup, Ecube Labs’ solar powered smart bins compress waste to fit more inside and can alert sanitation workers when they are full.
There’s a brilliant video that shows how they work - and more info on thenextweb.
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Cordon multi-target photo-radar can identify and track up to 32 vehicles across four lanes. It can instantly measure a car’s speed and position, stores violations on an SD card and can communicate with networked systems via Wi-Fi, 3G and WiMax. (via New Aesthetic)
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“Writers Bench: The Evolution of Melbourne Graffiti and Street Art Culture. 1980 - 2011”
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Tiananmen Square has two of these gigantic LED displays.
