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motion-sensing interactive walls that give their customers nutritional and workout tips and advice.

Sense hopes to provide better data around how well people are sleeping, and what's keeping them from sleeping better.

"800,000 Instagrams were tagged [Hurricane] #Sandy, and Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom thinks that makes it the most digitally captured event in history. But "how do we mine all these photos, make sense of them so you can consume the most interesting photos about Sandy?" he asked today at GigaOm's RoadMap conference. His conclusion was "We're going to need to be a big data company." Systrom says Instagram's focused is on "making meaning of all the data coming in, and improving the experience of curating." For example, he said that there were only 85,000 #SuperBowl Instagrams, compared to the 800,000 #SandyGram. People can't consume 800,000 photos, but they still want to pull valuable information from them."

Is it just me or does this headline not make any sense?

"Muse headband, which can sense the brainwaves of anyone who is wearing it. The headband is being advertised as a way to train meditation and mindfulness - but Netflix's team instead repurposed it as a gizmo to help the mindless who have trouble keeping track of their remote control."

"Kids looking for an Android experience without a phone bill have no shortage of options, but the MG is a bit different. By teaming up with BillMyParents, it lends kids a sense of financial freedom in their interactions with the Play Store, and a host of unique and exclusive apps streamline the experience. The price of entry isn't astronomical either -- it'll be $170 when it launches this holiday season, and early bird supporters can snag one for a paltry $99 on Kickstarter. That's not bad, for what amounts to a darn decent media player running ICS. Check it out for yourself at the source link below."

Google acquires makers of Alfred to improve digital assistant services

web of things from japan for remote sensing

The new features, styled Search plus Your World, were announced on a blog post today and come in three prongs. The first is the inclusion of "personal results" in the return to search queries. These results are based on what a user has shared through pictures on Picasa and on Google+ posts.  The second item in Google's new bag of tricks is a new type of search results that can flush out friends who have common names.  The final new feature is called People and Places and aspires to offer a sense of community by returning a list of new connections in response to generic queries like "music" or "baseball." 

"The amount of data we can collect from digital interactions by consumers is staggering, and making sense of it can seem daunting. This needn't be, though. You simply have to know which data are most relevant and how best to use them. With that in mind, here's a quick primer on how to use data to drive your digital strategy."

Gartner's survey of consumer sentiment, reported by the Detroit Free Press, shows that consumers give higher priority to "specific applications that make sense when they're driving," according to Gartner analyst Thilo Koslowski, including features like weather forecasting, traffic conditions, and parking availability, along with features such as voice recognition and automated crash notification systems. Gartner found that 82% of U.S. consumers would be willing to pay extra for such features, up from 20% just a few years ago.

The initiative will help journalists cover breaking news by making sense of the flood of public information on Twitter.

Not sure I'm a fan of this idea, regardless of a Apple's potential to profit.

Wow, potentially very disruptive in the sense that 6 pluses would become entertainment hubs, people may do more of "everything" on them. SHop, banking, work...what's the UX experience? Smartphone or tablet or something inbetween.

Apple needs to buy LeapMotion and put that thing in every device they make.