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Marketing has always been about playing the heartstrings, but don't think Apple's new patent on mood-sensing technology is going to revolutionize the field, says mood-tracking technology researcher Whitney Erin Boesel

Netflix is to consider new interactive storytelling technology for their TV dramas

BBC R&D is working on a Visual Perceptive Media project that uses information about the viewer to tailor video content. This week we discuss the effect that technology like this might have on advertising, entertainment, and especially education. Imagine what it would be like for a lesson to play your favorite music, reference your favorite movies, or use your favorite colors? That's the type of school we want to go to.

"Ambient Literature is a two-year collaboration between UWE Bristol, Bath Spa University and the University of Birmingham, established to investigate the locational and technological future of the book. Funded through a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the project is focused on the study of emergent forms of literature that make use of novel technologies and social practices in order to create robust and evocative experiences for readers. "

"Voice is natural, voice is human. That's why we're fascinated with creating usable voice technology for our machines. But most of that technology is locked up in a few big corporations and isn't available to the majority of developers. We think that stifles innovation so we're launching Project Common Voice, a project to help make voice recognition open to everyone. Now you can donate your voice to help us build an open-source voice recognition engine that anyone can use to make innovative apps for devices and the web."

Lyrebird is the first company to offer a technology to reproduce the voice of someone as accurately and with as little recorded audio. Such a technology raises important societal issues that we address in the next paragraphs.

"Project Tango is Google's attempt to build a device which is intimately acquainted with its surroundings "

"Project Tango is Google's attempt to build a device which is intimately acquainted with its surroundings "

Technology Insight - A Look at the Work of the BBC's R&D Department

Could "programmatic" technology used in online advertising also be used to automate and personalize the distribution of cultural and editorial content?

"Frank Rose is a leading writer and speaker on digital culture. His most recent book, The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories, investigates how entertainment and advertising are responding to overwhelming technological change."

"Storytelling techniques within traditional broadcast media have not made major advances in recent years due to the linear and relatively rigid approach to narrative despite advances in the technology that delivers the content. This research proposes the concept of 'perceptive media' in which the content creators have at their disposal different tools and sensors to allow for the subtle adaption of the narrative without any direct interactions from the audience members. The concept is demonstrated through the creation of a 'perceptive radio' that is able to play specially designed content that adapts to the physical and social context in which the radio resides."

This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures and offers a brilliantly lucid account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology.

Diminished Reality video demonstration by Jan Herling and Wolfgang Broll from the Ilmenau University of Technology. The software can remove objects from live video in 40ms per frame.

Apple is seeking a patent on something it calls "Inferring user mood based on user and group characteristic data" that its application says would figure out how you are feeling and "... then deliver content that is selected, at least in part, based on the inferred mood."

Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering... this Chrome Experiment has them all. "The Wilderness Downtown" is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire's song "We Used To Wait" and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.

Medium blog about Intel Realsense and Nevermind

This television uses facial recognition technology to locate its viewer, then rotates its screen to face them.

"The BBC is developing personalised dramas, radio shows that talk directly to listeners, and technology to record live events remotely, as it looks to shape the future of broadcasting."

Tinkering with technology is what we do. Making something innovative, imaginative, going where no man has gone before makes us as happy as cats at Christmas… oh man those Christmas trees!