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Cool solution to help prevent people from walking into walls or falling down stairs while texting. Another tool that will keep people staring at their phones longer. Freely walk and text and see what is going on in front of you, on the road while walking and typing or down stairs. Write text messages or share your message with friends via Twitter, Facebook, SMS or Email. Type n walk or walk and type without fear!

Looks like a house arrest bracelet. Is pointless considering mobile GPS tech, but uhhh this could be useful in the future when combined with other types of technology, especially for disabled or blind people.

Fleksy is a free keyboard app that makes it easy to type without looking and boasts a powerful autocomplete function. 

"Retailers as disparate as Williams-Sonoma Inc. and Home Depot Inc. have become much better at tailoring e-mails to specific customers rather than the one-size-fits-all blasts that once dominated this type of marketing. Measured by sales per dollar spent, e-mail outperforms social-media advertising three to one, according to the Direct Marketing Association, a trade group founded to provide accurate marketing data. That explains why retailers will send 19 percent more e-mails this year."

"Using addressable ads, marketers can predetermine the type of consumer who will see their commercials. In this case, Allstate is taking consumer data widely available from firms such as Experian, Epsilon and Axicom, along with subscriber information from Dish and DirecTV, and using all this to pinpoint renters. In other words, if the subscriber is a homeowner, the commercial is not supposed to appear on the TV screen. By using both DirecTV and Dish, Allstate's new-technology commercials will reach about 15 million households."

Amazon's same-day delivery service Prime Now, which is today available in more than a couple of dozen U.S. metros, is experimenting with another type of service that goes beyond traditional purchases: it's offering consumers the ability to test drive cars. Specifically, Amazon has partnered with Hyundai to offer test drives of the 2017 Elantra through a new program called "Prime Now. Drive Now."

The company promises its meals will contain absolutely no refined grains, added sugars, or other processed foods or flavorings. The promise of fresh fruit and vegetables, whole grains and sustainably raised meats and fish appeals to dieters of every type from Paleo followers to those watching their carbs to vegans and vegetarians, Manara said.

"Now, if you dig down, the targeting is not about the location of the beauty parlor, drug store or airport, but that in fact you visited a beauty parlor, drug store or airport. The nature of what types of place you visit, not where they are, is the basis for targeting. If you frequent one or more parks, grocery stores, the zoo and maternity stores, you just might be a Mom, the logic goes. And, the logic seems to work."

"'We basically had two different campaigns running,' said Carl Corbitt, creative director at Goodness. 'We had student-facing banner ads and a teaser video targeted to college-aged kids visiting Break.com, YouTube and Facebook, while we created a bogus 'Dean Deals' logo for all parent-persuading elements generated by students who visited the site (emails, banner ads, wish list landing page, etc.).  'For the parent-tracking banner ads we created five different banner ads for each of the five parent-types (25 different headlines). The headlines on the banners not only speak to the parent's personality/parenting-style (helicopter parent, BFF, Gadget Geek, etc), but we also added more 'nagging' to the headlines over time.' "

"Thirty years after it introduced a new type of colorful, graphical storytelling to the newspaper world, USA Today will unveil a redesigned print publication on Friday that pushes further in that direction, and a complete overhaul of its website that it hopes will produce a more fluid, app-like experience that some would say resembles the Flipboard mobile app. The changes to its website, which will launch in beta on Saturday, feel the most drastic. USA Today sites registered 38.7 million visitors in August, up 48% from 26.1 million a year ago. And USA Today Sports Media Group, a subset of that overall number, grew 133% from 11.6 million to 27 million over that same period thanks in large part to the January acquisition of the Big Lead Sports network of blogs."

invisible keyboard for typing while consuming content

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." 

Types of apps used regularly by US tablet users, april 2011. Fashion/beauty 22%

"Pandora-like interface" that lets you mark dishes as "want it," "loved it," "tried it," or "hide it." The latter lets you hone your recommendations and weed out the types of dishes that you want to avoid