Beautecam is an app that analyzes your skin type based on a set of criteria, then recommends beauty products, and connects you to a social network where you can share your skin related data.
Quantified self + beauty products + social networks + global skin type data collection = ???
I (nic) have the magnifying lens if you want to try it out. Available in the Public Area.
http://ec2-46-51-242-2.ap-northeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com/wordpress/
Interesting take on using gaming elements to motivate…
As North Korea cannot produce enough chemical fertilizer, citizens are urged to collect kitchen waste and even human excrement to produce compost. Competitions are held between neighbourhood units in order to step up compost production. The photo shows the “compost production competition chart of district no. 13”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kernbeisser/2420680926/in/set-72157604582048816/
According to the EPA, 50% of the oil spilled in our waterways every year comes from motor oil runoff. Natural waste fibers such as hair clippings are really good at socking up oil. But when BP spilled all that oil a while back they insisted on using synthetic fiber to clean it up. Even though natural fibers are a free and abundant resource…
IDEO’s water team created three scenes envisioning a positive future with water.
also see : http://vimeo.com/6967118, http://vimeo.com/6971914
From California water: a study in resource management, 1971, by David William Seckler.
Researchers are the first to have made an artificial neural network out of DNA, creating a circuit of interacting molecules that can recall memories based on incomplete patterns, just as a brain can.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110720142501.htm
How often a given word is used, relative to other words, can convey information about the word’s linguistic utility. Using Google word data for 3 languages over the 209-year period 1800-2008, we found by analyzing word use an anomalous recent change in the birth and death rates of words, which indicates a shift towards increased levels of competition between words as a result of new standardization technology. We demonstrate unexpected analogies between the growth dynamics of word use and the growth dynamics of economic institutions. Our results support the intriguing concept that a language’s lexicon is a generic arena for competition which evolves according to selection laws that are related to social, technological, and political trends. Specifically, the aggregate properties of language show pronounced differences during periods of world conflict, e.g. World War II.
Statistical Laws Governing Fluctuations in Word Use from Word Birth to Word Death
“Postcards is an award-winning large format feature motion picture that explores our future in space - seen through the eyes of an engineer working to build a base on the moon, and who occasionally sends video postcards back to his wife and family on Earth.”
Are we in danger of running out of water? California’s population is growing by 600,000 people a year, but much of the state receives as much annual rainfall as Morocco. With fish populations crashing, global warming, and the demands of the country’s largest agricultural industry, the pressures on our water supply are increasing.
http://science.kqed.org/quest/video/state-of-thirst-californias-water-future/#edguide
