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Anyone Can Be a Mechanic With This Brilliant Augmented Reality App. Mary Meeker 2012 Internet Trends Year-End Update. Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker is doing a year-end presentation on the state of the web at Stanford tonight. We have the slides of her presentation here. As usual, it's a must read for anyone in the industry, or anyone with an interest in technology. This update to Meeker's deck has new data, and new slides covering digital payments, education, and healthcare. There is also a new section on big data. Enjoy! Kleiner Perkins. Gartner's Top 10 tech trends for 2013.

Computerworld - ORLANDO -First came the heavy adoption of Apple's mobile platform by consumers whose heavy use of the devices for business tasks forced the IT operations at their companies to support them. Android was the next mobile platform pushed onto IT and now comes Windows 8, Microsoft's latest effort keep its PC empire intact and gain market share in mobile devices. For Gartner, the arrival of Windows 8 makes the "mobile device battles" its top technology trend for 2013. Gartner announced its list of Top 10 tech trends at its annual IT/expo here this week. The battle among mobile device vendors for the attention of consumers is forcing IT managers into increasing heterogeneity.

Tom Minifie, CTO at a software vendor he asked not to be named, said developers at his company have built Apple and Android mobile apps for employees, including a smartphone tool that can separate workplace and personal communications. He noted, when asked, that the decision isn't a chicken and egg problem. LittleBits. LabCAST - The MIT Media Lab Video Podcast. 1,000,000,000,000 Frames/Second Photography - Ramesh Raskar. Lincoln Laboratory: Spin-offs. One measure of the Laboratory's contribution to the nation's economy is its success in transferring technology to spin-off companies. The partial list that follows indicates the range of industrial activities that have been generated and supported by ideas and techniques developed at the Laboratory.

Air Traffic Software Architecture, Inc. American Aviation, Inc. American Power Conversion Corporation Amtron Corporation Applicon, Inc. Spin-Offs. Social Media Monitoring Tools | Brandwatch. Neul - the Internet of Everything. Envisioning Technology. Future Timeline | Technology | Singularity | 2020 | 2050 | 2100 | 2150 | 2200 | 21st century | 22nd century | 23rd century | Humanity | Predictions | Events. Start-Up 100: StrategyEye interactive guide. Top 15 U.S. Startup Accelerators and Incubators Ranked; TechStars and Y Combinator Top The Rankings. UPDATE: Check out the 2012 Startup Accelerators and Incubator Rankings released on August 22, 2012. There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States.

We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with pure co-working spaces) as they offer entrepreneurs a way to spend a few months laser focused on a single idea. Through the accelerator or incubator they receive mentoring, guidance and a small amount of funding in return for a small stake in the company. With all the startup accelerator programs popping up across the country we were curious to find out which programs would offer the biggest bang for the time, money and effort spent in the program. As a part of his field work for the Kauffman Fellows Program (not to be confused with Kauffman Foundation), Aziz Gilani from DFJ Mercury, working in partnership with Tech Cocktail and the Kellogg School of Management, set out to determine the best startup accelerator programs in America and rank them. The new startup ecosystem [Infographic]

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Different topics - explanation. Shader Printer uses heat-sensitive 'paint' that can be erased with low temperatures (hands-on video) Lovin' the bold look of those new Nikes? If you're up to date on the athletic shoe scene, you may notice that sneaker designs can give way long before your soles do. A new decaling technique could enable you to "erase" labels and other artworks overnight without a trace, however, letting you change up your wardrobe without shelling out more cash. A prototype device, called Shader Printer, uses a laser to heat (at 50 degrees Celsius, 120 degrees Fahrenheit) a surface coated with a bi-stable color-changing material. When the laser reaches the "ink," it creates a visible design, that can then be removed by leaving the object in a -10 degree Celsius (14 degree Fahrenheit) freezer overnight.

The laser and freezer simply apply standard heat and cold, so you could theoretically add and remove designs using any source. Shader Printer with heat-sensitive 'paint' hands-on See all photos 19 Photos Comments.

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Recovery. Samsung: The next big bet. IN 2000 Samsung started making batteries for digital gadgets. Ten years later it sold more of them than any other company in the world. In 2001 it threw resources into flat-panel televisions. Within four years it was the market leader. In 2002 the firm bet heavily on “flash” memory.

The handsome payoffs from these ballsy bets made the South Korean company a colossus; last year its sales passed $135 billion. With these plans Samsung sees itself bringing technologies that are vital for society into much broader use. But the plans are also an ambitious industrial power play, one that challenges some of the world's biggest companies. The 83 firms that are tied together in Samsung's remarkably complex structure provide 13% of South Korea's gross exports. Yet Samsung wants to diversify away from consumer electronics, a market that suffers from falling prices, thin margins, fast product cycles and fickle customers.

Doing it the Samsung way The strategy is shrewd. From crisis to crisis. CHI 2012 - Advance Program. Envisioning Emerging Technology For 2012 And Beyond: Infographic Predicts Space Elevators, Blood-Powered Computers. When can we buy robots that will complete all our household chores for us? When will our gadgets be grafted onto our skin and powered by our blood? And when will transporting items into space be as easy as opening an elevator and pressing the "Up" button? Tech trend forecasting firm Envisioning Technology has put together a beautiful infographic that examines current scientific and technological research and predicts when in the next 28 years possible innovations might become reality. The graphic, titled "Envisioning Emerging Technology For 2012 And Beyond," separates breakthroughs into 11 categories -- artificial intelligence, Internet, robotics and space, to name a few -- and lets users hover over each item to see more information.

Emerging technology strategist Michell Zappa, who led the research team that gathered data for the graphic, told The Huffington Post that this mapping of tech's future was more than a purely imaginative exercise. A few more mind-blowing highlights: Knowledge management. KM Knowledge management.