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Pew Research on how Americans think about the future

Legitimate research "roughly 50% of tweets consumed are generated by just 20K elite users---where the media produces the most information, but celebrities are the most followed"

Interesting research

Good overview of stats and UX insights for tablets

research suggests that women go for dedicated e-readers while men choose tablets. A new study of over 26,000 U.S. adults from consumer research firm GfK MRI found that women are 52 percent more likely than men to own an e-reader, and men are 24 percent more likely than women to own a tablet.

"Researchers from the University of Oslo have designed bots that can adapt to unforeseen problems and even 3D-print new parts for themselves."

Mother lode of social/mobile data from Pew

" This week the New York Times Research & Development Labs launched a new tool called Compendium, which lets readers "use articles, imagery, videos, and quotations to tell your own stories using New York Times content." A good comparison might be Storify for a single source's content, or Pinterest with more text."

"Flurry stacked up time spent with mobile apps next to the web and TV. Although it didn't take into account multitasking-which research shows is very common among mobile app users-Flurry findings indicated that US consumers spent more time in apps than on the web. And their time spent with mobile apps (127 minutes) was nipping at the heels of their time spent watching TV (168 minutes). Flurry broke down mobile app usage into categories, and found that mobile gaming led the charge, accounting for 43% of the time spent with mobile apps worldwide. Social networking came in second, accounting for 26% of consumers' time, and entertainment and utility followed, each with 10%."

Microsoft Research Cambridge team built an augmented reality system to help brain surgeons visualize 3D brain scans.

researchers have devised a way to "print" devices directly onto the skin so people can wear them for an extended period while performing normal daily activities. Such systems could be used to track health and monitor healing near the skin's surface, as in the case of surgical wounds.

Tablet shipments will outpace those of portable PCs this year as demand for PCs overall continues to slide, according to a new IDC forecast. The research firm projects that tablet worldwide shipments will rise 58.7% to 229.3 million units in 2013, while notebook computers will fall 6.7% to 187.4 million.

The researcher predicts that U.S. desktop advertising will hit $35.39 billion in 2014, but then begin falling off in 2015. By 2017, the figure will be $32.51 billion, which is close to the amount posted in 2012. Meanwhile, mobile advertising will hit $11.76 billion in 2013, up from $7.65 billion this year.

"Using the researchers' technique cuts that to 0.4 millijoules - a 99.96 percent cut. The team believes that the dramatic improvement in efficiency will lead to new services based on continuous GPS logging; for example, building a database of noise pollution levels in a given city, or getting tailored directions or search results based on the routes you most commonly drive."

Women's network SheSpeaks and female-oriented marketing firm Lippe Taylor surveyed over 2,000 US female internet users in March 2013 and found that only 6% reported still researching products primarily in-store, while another 5% asked friends and family for recommendations most often. The rest-89% in total-did their browsing mostly on the web, either via desktop (71%) or on mobile devices (18%).

Research firm Informa believes nearly 19 billion instant messages were sent per day in 2012 through chat applications, which has finally overtaken SMS texts which only 17.6 billion texts were sent in the same year. The 19 billion instant messages were spread across six of the most popular mobile chat applications: WhatsApp, BlackBerry Messenger, Viber, Nimbuzz, Apple's iMessage and KakaoTalk.