In the future, you might read e-mail on digitally enhanced contact lenses

Thanks to media fragmentation and digital technology proliferation screens come in various sizes and shapes testing limits on measurement and analytics ....How is this for a change?

Research is currently being done to turn contact lenses into "portable screens" which project digital images, including e-mail, onto the retinas of its wearer. It is the future of augmented reality, as presented by digitally enhanced contact lenses. Sounds amazing! The full article is at the link below: http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/22/would-you-wear-digitally-enhanced-contact-lenses/?hpt=hp_t2

OECD country ratings as leading indicator and predictor of economic activity

Its worth investigating if the OECF ratings have a bearing on equity market performance and can act as leading indicators....

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/10/us-economy-oecd-indicator-idUSTRE7991QT20111010?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FbusinessNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Business+News%29

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

The Dunning  Ace Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it". The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than in actuality; by contrast the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to a perverse result where less competent people will rate their own ability higher than more competent people. It also explains why actual competence may weaken self-confidence because competent individuals falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding.  Thus, the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."

Future of Media is all digital and takes Human Experience to new frontiers

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38&vq=medium

Dream Big: Airbus pushing Human Experience to the limits 2050

Airbus Future of Air Travel

WHO IS THAT HOT AD GIRL?

‘Who is that hot ad girl?’ is a site that answers that exact question. Users send it requests to know more about actresses (and sometimes actors) in various advertisements. It was actually inspired by the actress used in recent T-Mobile ads (the one in the pink and white dress, you know who we mean.) The beauty of the digital space is that with enough effort these questions can almost certainly be answered.

http://whoisthathotadgirl.tumblr.com/

Solar System Scope

We’ve been hearing a lot about planetary alignment lately. The six-planet formation a couple of weeks ago was covered in the mainstream media, and the impending December 21, 2012 Mayan calendar is also tied to a
type of astrological alignment

http://www.solarsystemscope.com/

Long exposure shots of airline takeoffs and landings

The next time you’re on a plane, look around. Most people occupy themselves during the flight, but for takeoffs and landings, people tend to be glued to the windows - watching other planes arrive and depart. It shouldn’t be surprising then that a recent image gallery has found an
enthusiastic online audience.

http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/05/long-exposure-shots-of-airline-takeoffs.html

Water free urinals

Very simple but interesting product. Hopefully someone can soon come up with an innovation to extend this beyond urinals to work in existing toilets
http://www.falconwaterfree.com/how/stage2.htm