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Key takeaway: "As our possessions become smarter and smarter, the question becomes less about if we can interact with these objects and more about how we want to interact with them. Touchscreens will simply be one of the many options-after all, swiping and tapping a flat, glassy screen isn't a blanket solution to make something interactive."

Tracking customers with video cameras to monitor how they move through the stores in what some see as an effort to even the playing field what online retailers who can track consumers using analytics, according to a New York Times report. Stores using the technology include Family Dollar, Benetton and Warby Parker. They use the information to decide on matters like changing store layouts and offering customized coupons, according to the Times report.

Press-on nails that light up when near a NFC-enabled smartphone

Smells like Google Wave to me

This game first became popular on Facebook, and the game is built with Flash. Moving to mobile native apps is not hard from there, because Flash lets you then re-package the same game for iOS and Android with only minor changes required. Advergaming is a product I sincerely wish Moxie would offer to their clients. We still have considerable expertise in building Flash games and content.

Goodbye TV biz.

2016 trend? Or too soon?

Not too soon but maybe part of a larger trend

Article highlights the necessity of adoption before a technology can take root. Primary example: geo-location has been around a while, but it took a while fulfill it's promise because people had to be ready to embrace it, and the service had to make it approachable for them.

From Japan, a collaborative authoring community. "Cellphone novels" have been around for a while there, but this service uses Twitter and keeps the entire work open-sourced so the novel is remixable and people can pick up from anywhere in the novel to change the direction of the story and make it their own. It's pretty cool.

kids wrote and drew about what they thought a scientist was, then after going on a field trip to meet them, drew what they actually saw. used in daily 6.25