A round up of the latest digital trends from health and education to sport and retail.
IDEO Future of Automotive
How different will tomorrow be from today? Both a lot and very little. More of us will live to be 100. Our resources will diminish while our technological capacity grows. Stuff will get faster and cheaper. But our basic needs? We're betting those stay the same—that humans will still need to sleep, to eat, to work, and to move from place to place. That last part is what we're interested in here. What happens to mobility in the next 15 years? Let's go for a ride and find out. http://automobility.ideo.com
A retail experience that reinvents the way cars are sold.
http://www.nurun.com/en/case-studies/tesla-motors-retail-kiosks
Car Insurance Epic Mind Drive - Control a car with your mind!
http://www.moneysupermarket.com/hubs/car-insurance/mind-drive
Jaguar Land Rover work on a smart pothole detection system for the U.K
http://newsroom.jaguarlandrover.com/en-in/jlr-corp/news/2015/06/jlr_pothole_alert_research_100615
Destination British Columbia VR
Welcome to ‘The Matrix’? Theme park with virtual reality twist. www.thevoid.com
Flirtey is the world's first autonomous aerial delivery company
Regent Street launches smart app
http://barracloughandco.com/2015/04/09/review-walking-to-the-ibeacon-beat-on-regent-street
o2 and the England RFU VR
Wear the Rose allows you to train with your favourite player in VR!
Giving BigData back to the patient : Big Health
Billions of people worldwide are suffering from problems for which we have proven behavioral solutions. Yet most can’t access anything other than pills.
We use tracked data to create highly personalized behavioral medicine programs, all delivered via web and mobile to the highest standards of clinical evidence.
Tech giving hospitals the cutting edge
Liftware - helping those with hand tremors to eat again
Minecraft as a teaching tool
MinecraftEdu is a school-ready remix of the original smash hit game Minecraft. Minecraft Education Edition - Bring Minecraft to the Classroom!
Shop This
ShopThis! with Masterpass is one of MasterCard's newest innovations aimed at closing the gap between when you see something you like in an ad and when you make a move to buy it. ShopThis! with Masterpass is a new tech capability provided by MasterCard to digital publications, which effectively enables a buy now button on digital ads.
LG Smart Kitchen - chat with your appliances
The window that never sleeps
An interactive holographic shop window display concept for Paul Smith on Floral Street, Covent Garden, London. This concept aims to engage and attract potential customers in one of the busiest places in London out of hours.
Lily
The Lily autonomous drone - a camera drone slaved to a person’s movement. http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/lily-camera
Luna Sleep
Luna is the world's first mattress cover that makes any bed smart. http://lunasleep.com
Sainsbury open Digital Lab
Whilst in-house digital labs, innovation labs, tech labs are popping up all over the world. Sainsbury's in the U.K being the latest.
http://m.thedrum.com/news/2015/04/01/sainsbury-s-creates-digital-lab-latest-effort-keep-consumers
Spritzing lets you read at up to 5x normal reading speed
IKEA and IDEO bake up the future of the kitchen
Virtual reality gives music fans chance to be onstage with Kasabian
http://visualise.com/2015/02/virtual-reality-gives-music-fans-chance-onstage-kasabian
eSkin epidermal electronics
The Smart Wine Bottle
Thinfilm and G World Introduce First “Smart Wine Bottle” Featuring Printed Electronics Technology.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/10/ca-thin-film-g-world-idUSnBw105103a+100+BSW20150710
Next VR - be the action
NextVR develops custom lens-to-lens system for capturing live on-demand VR at broadcast quality
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/fox-sports-nextvr-demo-live-803101
Sensor-driven diagnosis
While fitness trackers from Fitbit and Jawbone flood the market alongside smartwatches from Apple, Samsung, LG and Motorola, the wearable industry is already looking towards a bigger picture - stepping away from consumers and using the technology to improve medical treatment
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/wearables-2-0-sensors-woven-into-clothing-lead-medical-revolution-1491495
Google Space Camp
Camp Google is a free summer camp that gets kids learning through fun, interactive science activities and adventures. Led by experts, the activities have been designed to encourage kids to ask questions, setting them on a lifelong journey of exploration and discovery.
https://camp.withgoogle.com/activities/week1/whats-down-there
Google has opened its first ever store
Rather than offering a retail experience, the shop in central London is more like a Google-themed amusement park. Visitors can press big red buttons to work an interactive display of Google (GOOG) features, including a play pod and screens showing Google trends (filtered to make sure the results are family friendly).
http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/11/technology/google-shop-london/?iid=EL
Five retailers using NFC and RFID to enhance shopping: but do they work?
Machine learning in the kitchen with IBM’s Watson
The team at IBM’s aim is to create an app that helps everyone from home cooks to restaurant chefs come up with new classics, so to do that, we gave Watson access to our massive (over 10,000) recipe database. (FYI: The kitchen isn’t IBM’s only domain—the team is currently using Watson to improve all sorts of industries and domains, like improving users’ personal health.)
http://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/trends-news/article/chef-watson-app
Disney’s $1 Billion Bet on a Magical Wristband
All TESLA Driverless cars all owned by UBER in 2020
IoT in the home - becoming tangible and desirable
The new British Gas HIVE has been through some changes...
The ‘Why’ Of Digital Transformation Is Clear. Now It’s Time For ‘How’
Ideo transforms the business class experience for Lufthansa
http://www.ideo.com/work/a-new-level-of-german-hospitality-elevates-business-class-travel
Back-to-School Shopping 2015: How Marketers Can Make the Grade
Google/Levi - Project Jacquard
Project Jacquard makes it possible to weave touch and gesture interactivity into any textile using standard, industrial looms.
Google's diabetes 'smart' lens licensed to Novartis
Owlet smart sock
Sleep better as a new mom with the Owlet Care smart sock baby monitor. It will monitor your baby's vital signs and alert you only when needed.
OSHbot service robots
OSHbot retail service robots were installed in the midtown San Jose Orchard Supply Hardware store. OSHbot will greet you when you come in, and you can talk back - in English or Spanish. Just tell OSHbot what you are looking for and it will guide you to that item in the store.
Reconjet
The first heads up display for sport enthusiasts.
Wearable Sensors, early diagnosis , remote diagnosis
http://pathfindersoftware.com/2015/07/wearable-sensors-are-the-future-of-personalized-medicine-html
Contact lens with built-in telescope could help people with blinding disease
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/17/tech/contact-lens-telescope-blindness/index.html
3D Printing Brings Imaginative Children’s Drawings to Their Playrooms
http://www.psfk.com/2015/07/3d-printed-drawings-childrens-drawings-toys-moyupi.html
Clarks using iPads to measure feet
Wearables in retail
How Wearable (specifically Apple Watch) could supercharge shopper marketing, using haptic to guide shoppers to the shelf to find the items on their digital shopping list. How geolocation can be used to offer deals when shopper enters the right store at the right time (with a countdown)
https://econsultancy.com/blog/66668-four-ecommerce-tech-trends-to-watch-in-2015/