What do our future mobile devices look like and what will they do?

What does the evolution of mobile phone design look like?

The Pew Internet and American Life Project have released a study indicating that people who use social networks, cellphones, and IM tend to have a larger social circle than non-users.

In this video, Francois Bancon, Nissan’s General Manager, Marketing and Communication Group, Global Zero Emission Business Unit, took a few minutes to chat with the audience about Nissan’s vision for a zero-emission future.

In partnership with Nissan, PSFK held an event on October 20 2009 to discuss the future of Pure Living in Tokyo. Piers Fawkes, founder of PSFK, moderated a conversation with an international panel of experts and covered topics that included sustainability, design, urban planning, technology and zero-emission mobility.

Michael Lebovitz conducts experiments with dynamic, interactive typography.

Alex Bogusky and John Winsor from CP+B have just launched their new book Baked In, which champions the idea that products and brands that have an intrinsic value will render traditional advertising methods unnecessary.

We recently covered what the internet is killing and this video we came across shows through various statistics how the internet is changing our lives.

The tinkering that we now only associate with technology and machines, is emerging within the fields of genetics and biotechnology.

For one Boston Prep school, the satisfying turn of the page and row upon row of books have been replaced by the calculated clack of keyboards and endlessness of the internet. As the modern library it seems, contains no actual books.

Wired examines a trend they refer to as the “Good Enough Revolution”, a change in consumer priorities that favors ease of use, availability and price over quality.

As technology becomes increasingly sophisticated, so does its relationship with humans and the way we interact with it. Scottish electronic artist Calvin Harris created a “humanthesizer” using 15 models and conductive paint to perform “Ready for the Weekend,” a single off his upcoming album with the same name.
The project is a collaboration between Calvin, Sony Music Entertainment, and Bare conductive body ink. “Ink-human circuitry” was painted onto the models while two Arduinos were used to provide an analog-to-digital connection with a computer. From there, patching environment Max/MSP translates data to MIDI where the models can then perform by closing circuits [...]

As people increasingly move online for their news and entertainment, media providers and advertisers alike are seeking new ways to design these environments to maximize audience share, while successfully monetizing the (mostly free) content. In this evolving space, media companies are faced with the constant dilemma of maintaining the proper balance between content and ads; place too many flashy banners and risk losing your viewers, but not enough and your revenue streams suffer.
Until recently, achieving the right mix appeared to be more of a guessing game than anything based on scientific rigor, but all that might be changing as major [...]

As technology strives to keep up with consumer demand for smaller, faster and more powerful everything, it’s inevitable that many of the “next-big things” of the past will become little else but memories of the past as they are eclipsed by their younger, sleeker iterations. Given the speed of innovation, there’s a very good chance that many of the devices and cultural hallmarks that we’ve grown up with will be long extinct before the next generation of digital natives knew they ever existed.
To that end, Nate Barry over at Wired has collected 100 such objects into a handy list that [...]

New York now probably has the grandest Wi-Fi hotspot in the country. Yesterday, the New York Public Library opened its elegant Edna Barnes Salomon Room in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building as a reading room specifically for online users. In recent years, the room has been used mostly for special exhibitions and rental space for private engagements.
Built in 1911, the Schwarzman Building houses the library’s research collection. The Beaux-Arts room is decorated in the classical style with 4,500 square foot of rectangular space and boasts dark maple wood floors. It has seating for 128 people on brown leather chairs and [...]