@MayoInnovation #POTF TweetChat (with images) · MayoInnovation. Starting Out on the Innovation Journey – The Innovation Matrix. Design for How People Learn. Genentech: The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2012. Surgeon General launches new app challenge. U.S.
Surgeon General Regina Benjamin is challenging mobile health application developers to come up with technology tools that are not only creative but also easy and enjoyable for Americans to use in their everyday lives to encourage healthy behaviors. The Surgeon General's Healthy Apps challenge, announced during her Dec. 6 keynote at the mHealth Summit, is designed to develop tools with tailored information that will encourage those "who may not be tech savvy and who wouldn't ordinarily want to get involved to become healthy and fit, and to make it easy and fun. " [See also: ONC goes Hollywood to showcase health IT] The app will also be aimed at individuals who live in communities that are hard to reach or underserved by healthcare providers. Developers can enter the competition until Dec. 30, and the winners will be announced in late January 2012.
[See also: Doctor or patient? "We want to start using this as soon as we can," Benjamin said. Verizon's new platform. Prototyping. How will we design products for the Internet of Things? As revolutionary as the mobile ecosystem is, it’s the interactions of more-intelligent connected devices with people outside the context of phones or computers that will drive more innovation, says Mark Rolston, the chief creative officer at Frog Design. Rolston, speaking at the Mobile Future Forward conference on Monday in Seattle described a future where devices become more contextually aware, thanks to embedded and connected sensors. Instead of thinking about the buttons on a phone or a laptop, manufacturers and designers need to think about what will happen when computers are embedded in everything and connected all the time.
Instead of computing’s being confined in a box on a desk or in the hand, computers will be everywhere, pulling data from a variety of places. In fact, user interaction might be a very minimal part of the overall design. Why we need to take computers out of computing. Computers — the boxes that we consult in the form of tablets, mobile phones and desktops — are wonderful, but they take away from what it is to be human and to really connect with one another.
So the challenge and opportunity that lies ahead is how to get the computers out of computing, said Mark Rolston, the chief creative officer at frog. Speaking at the GigaOM RoadMap conference in San Francisco, Rolston took the audience through a vision of omnipresent computing. “The room is the computer,” he said, as he described putting something like Apple’s Siri voice recognition system into an earpiece, and then being able to interact with a projector in a room to create a screen wherever the user needed one.
“Computing is decoupling. Most computers are composed machines, but if you can image a case where they are externalized resources in a room,” he said. So today, if you have an iPad, that’s all you have. Honda Robotics Unveils Next-Generation ASIMO Robot. UPDATED: November 8, 2011, 9:15 a.m.
Added video and more photos. November 10, 2011, 9:42 a.m. Updated video. You're looking at Honda's brand new ASIMO robot, which was just unveiled today in Japan. While the new ASIMO's appearance is similar to the version of ASIMO that we've come to know and love, there are some key differences inside that promise to make this generation more autonomous and capable than ever. Below we give you all the details, with a bunch of new pics to match. Here are the specs of the new ASIMO and a summary of its new capabilities: 1. Enhanced physical capabilities: The new ASIMO is lighter, faster, and stronger than ever. Bann Mankong. Text to Change. Experience Design: Glossary. Design for Social Change Group News. Innovate on Purpose. Dhama Innovations.