Imagining Augmented Reality

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• Technology

  

  What Augmented Reality Could Actually Look Like

  Seems like there's more and more chatter about augmented reality stuff lately (or else I just started paying attention): Last week, we giddily...

  by Siobhan O'Connor 1

• Technology

  

  Digital World Explorer

  The digital ethnographer Michael Wesch on the dark side of social media, what we learned from Iran, and why the future of the web depends on human...

  by Andrew Price 1

• Technology

  

  Intermission: Lichtfront's Augmented Light Sculpture

  The artists at Grosse8 and Lichtfront used an angular sculpture that looks like an abstraction from Robotech, four projectors, and two...

  by Andrew Price +

• Cities

  

  Ideas for Cities: Tech Missions

  Tech Missions Technology evangelists and coaches could function as a mobile “genius bar,” going out to every neighborhood via exploration buses...

  by GOOD +

• Technology

  

  Singularity 101 Will Return Next Week

  The singularity may be near, as Ray Kurzweil says, but our series, Singularity 101, is taking a break this week for the holidays. The next post...

  by GOOD +

• Technology

  

  Skinput: Your Arm as Control Panel

  This prototype of a system called "skinput" (and it is definitely a prototype) lets you use your forearm or fingers to control your electronics....

  by Andrew Price +

• News

  

  Faster than Light: Separating Fiction from Reality

  Warp six, Mr. Scott. This is the seventh part in an eight-part series on the future of transportation. New articles published every...

  by Seth Shostak 2

• Business

  

  How Might We Measure What’s Most Meaningful?

  We live in a society that has refined its measurement of economic activity to an extreme degree. Indeed, many of the measures that we rely on...

  by Tim Brown +

• Cities

  

  Ideas for Cities: Google Analytics for Learning

  Google Analytics for Learning Cities should measure the impact of learning more closely, because education reduces unemployment and poverty...

  by GOOD +

• Technology

  

  Samasource: Internet Jobs for the Marginalized

  Leila Chirayath Janah, a friend of GOOD, recently launched a nonprofit venture called Samasource. Samasource aims to connect educated workers in...

  by Andrew Price 1

• Technology

  

  Criticisms of the Singularity

  Is superhuman intelligence feasible, or even desirable? Part seven in a GOOD miniseries on the singularity by Michael Anissimov and Roko Mijic....

  by Michael Anissimov +

• Technology

  

  Travel the Trans-Siberian Railway from Home

  Google has put together a remarkable "virtual journey" that allows you to take the historic Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostok. You...

  by Andrew Price +

• Technology

  

  The "Outlet Regulator" Spits out Electricity Leeches

  Inventor Connor Klein's "Outlet Regulator" will actually spit out plugs that are draining electricity from the outlet unnecessarily. He...

  by Andrew Price 1

• Technology

  

  Maybe Your Avatar Controls You

  Jesse Fox, a PhD student at Stanford, is exploring how the online interactions you have through an avatar shape your real life identity. Video...

  by Andrew Price +

• Technology

  

  Excellent: A Laser-equipped, Trash-sorting Robot

  Given that only 6 percent of the plastic crap we throw away gets recycled, it's good news that Mitsubishi and Osaka University have invented a...

  by Andrew Price +

• Technology

  

  The Cost of Driveby Culture

  Seth Godin raises a question that any media company should be thinking about carefully: We're creating a culture of clickers, stumblers and jaded...

  by Andrew Price +

• Technology

  

  Playing Pong with Nothing But Your Eyes

  Undergraduates at Imperial College London created a system that allows people to control a simple video game with their eyes alone. Video after...

  by Andrew Price +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Is the Large Hadron Collider Being Destroyed by Malicious Forces from the Future?

  It might sound far-fetched, but so does smashing protons together at light speed to recreate the conditions of the start of the universe....

  by Morgan Clendaniel +

• Cities

  

  Crowdsourcing Useful Data in NYC

  Last week, the city of New York launched "A software application competition to make New York City more transparent and accountable, and an easier...

  by Zach Frechette +

• Environment

  

  The GOOD 100: Solar Electric Light Fund

  Here's a conundrum: If solar power is still prohibitively expensive even in the richest nations on the planet, how will it ever spread to the...

  by GOOD +