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A sweeping blow on mobile opportunities. A quick slide through of a near distance future

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The rise of the mobile strategist according to a study abmong 600 HR Managers in the US and UK. Nice infographics by Antenna http://i.techrepublic.com.com/blogs/antenna-infographic-sml-web.jpg

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Kinect + Brain Scans = Augmented Reality for Neurosurgeons. In preparation for surgery, doctors can look inside the skull from various angles to get a glimpse of the brain before operating. Microsoft Kinect was initially designed to immerse gamers in video games through its gesture and voice recognition technology. 

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The next generation of gesture control is just around the corner. The MYO armband lets you use the electrical activity in your muscles to wirelessly control your computer, phone and other favorite digital technologies. The result, according to developers ThalmicLabs - and this video, is a seamless way to interact and a truly magical sense of control. The market approach includes open API´s and a network of developers making and profiting from gesture control including apps. Pre-order the armband now for usd 149 at getmyo.com

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Mobile app developers should not be thinking "disruption," they should be thinking "interruption"

Web guru Alistair Croll to Business Insider

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In a new TrackMyMacca app, McDonalds Australia uses image recognition to track what you see on your table to where the ingredients on this local Aussie burger came from. With built-in augmented reality you can also view the actual beef, pickle and bun farmers spin their engines and stories around your food. 

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To limit the amount of typos in smartphone written e-mails, or the need for laptop all together, what about a virtual keyboard that fits on your keychain?. CTX Technologies just presented this at CES 2013. Solutions like this can revolutionize the way data is entered and managed. 

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In the future, I envision wildly more modular and customizable phones. Perhaps in addition to our own beautifully-designed phones, we could sell some kind of phone template, and entrepreneurs the world over could build a local business on building phones precisely tailored to the needs of his or her local community. You want a waterproof, glow-in-the-dark phone with a bottle-opener and a solar charger? Someone can build it for you—or you can print it yourself!

John Kneeland, Community & Developer Marketing Manager, Nokia

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Whatever happened with the rolling and bending device idea from 2005? This concept by  by Tamer Nakisci could have been the savior of Nokia. Even got the home button Apple introduced on iPhone a few years later :-)

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The UI has to be just as radical as the idea. It has to tickle the user's basal ganglia in five to 13 seconds.

Unnamed Apple engineer to Scott Lindenbaum, co-founder of Spun

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A high-tech iphone case is approved via FDA as EKG monitor. The AliveCor Heart Monitor is a $200 app and case combo that when held in your hands or pressed against your chest produces and EKG - the green blips that thells you whether or not you are going to die. Currently only available in pre-order for US medical professionals, this device could be revolutionary if/when made commercially available. Because of its portability, patients could have their EKGs taken right away without being shuffled around a hospital.

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Share your christmas captures with family and friends. Beam it to the big screen with Plair. A nicely design device for your TV´s USB port that enables smooth sharing of  videos and photos from mobile and tablet to the TV. Beta out now.

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Following SnapChat´s fun & self-destructing messaging app, Facebook just launched a similare app for iOS, named Facebook Poke. Users can poke or send a message, photo, or video to Facebook friends to share what they're up to in a lightweight way. Each message expires after a specific time you've set, either 1, 3, 5 or 10 seconds, and cannot be retrieved by either party again. When time runs out, the message disappears from the app. Users can poke an individual friend or several at once.

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Get crowsourced reviews for the most populare dishes with the new app, Dish.fm Powered by millions of reviews pulled from Foursquare, Yelp, and other social media sites, Dish.fm aims to help choose the dishes that receive the most positive and most popular online reviews. The app also uses Instagram and other social media images, where available, to provide consumers with not only a written review, but also a visual one.

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I think that location aware, and context-relevant shopping and payments experiences will be one of those technologies that changes much much more for the consumer than even the hard working technologists in Silicon Valley can imagine today.

David Marcus, PayPal 

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Google search has become part of our medical check-up these days. A study compiled by Demi & Cooper Advertising and DC Interactive Group shows that more than 90% of people ages 18-24 said they would trust health information they found on social media channels. One in two adults use their smartphone to look-up health information. 19% of smartphone owners have at least one health app on their phone. Exercise, diet and weight apps are the most popular types. 

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Within the next five years, your mobile device will let you touch what you’re shopping for online. It will distinguish fabrics, textures, and weaves so that you can feel a sweater, jacket, or upholstery – right through the screen. Haptic devices such as gloves or “rumble packs” used in gaming have existed for years. But we use them in closed environments where the touch doesn’t actually connect to where we are in reality. IBM Research think that in the next five years that our mobile devices will bring together virtual and real world experiences to not just shop, but feel the surface of produce, and get feedback on data such as freshness or quality.

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Within the next five years, IBM Research thinks that computers will not only be able to look at images, but help us understand the 500 billion photos we’re taking every year (that’s about 78 photos for each person on the planet). Usage: Doctors can see the diseases before they occur. Get discounts on on certain kind of food based on the images pined to your "Dream Kitchen" Pinterest board.