Table Aquarium
Time Capsule
Token Necklace
Touch Membrane
Translation Passport
TransPort (Transparent
Transport Passport)
Transport Logistics
ViPr
Virtual Cubicland
Virtual Medical Education
Virtual/Real Museum
ExperienceVirtual Real Reality
Virtual Shopping in Real-time
Virtual Traveling
Virtual Yoga
Visual Credit Cards
Visual Electric Sockets
Bank offices at exclusive addresses add to the customer costs, but you need personal contact when you deal with important financial matters.
Personalized bank service at low cost through unmanned, avatar driven bank units available at public locations, i.e. shopping centers or local stores.
You get interactive information and documents on the table in front of you.
Device: Indiebank
Enterprise: Indiebank
Stories: Sharmila Malik, A Day in Sharmila's Life, Economy Time
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Intelligent garments capable of generating electricity for different devices, through movement, kinetics and solar power + new materials.
Stories: A Day in Zhang's Life
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Clothes made by an intelligent resistance textile, which has the capacity to increase and reduce the density in the material. It has sensors all over and responds to your muscle activity, both by putting pressure where you need to practice more and by stopping your movements to protect you from hurting yourself.
Stories: A Day in Takashi's Life
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The house where you live helps you making environmentally friendly choices.
A monitor installed in the house by the electricity provider helps you minimize your carbon footprint by recording your energy consumption. For instance, to balance the use of water and electricity, the building only allows washing between eleven in the evenings and six in the mornings.
Device: Connected Home
Stories: The First Visit, House Warming Party, A Day in Emre's Life, A Working Day for Emre
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INTERACTIVE REAL-TIME DISTANCE EDUCATION
Interactive real time distance education with video.
Stories: A Day in the Life of the Johnson's, An Ordinary Tuesday
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You are sometimes not aware that you work too much and neglect yourself and your family and friends.
The Life Balance indicates a person’s life situation, balance between work and leisure, in real time. When you change the parameters and positions of events, balance is achieved.
Device: Life Balance
Stories: Sharmila Malik, A Day in Sharmila's Life
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Electronic wallpaper that shows not only different images or patterns, but that also provides light. When you wake up in the mornings, the walls gradually gives more light, giving the illusion of dawn and daylight.
Stories: Bedtime
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Gated community where a number of big brands have gone together in creating a safe, clean and exclusive secluded world where you live, shop and entertain.
Stories: Sharmila Malik, A Day in Sharmila's Life
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The breakfast table is often filled with newspapers and schoolbooks for last minute homework, which has to share the space with cereals, breadcrumbs and scrambled eggs.
Instead of adding items to the table you use the table surface both to read the news, do your homework and socialize.
Device: Living Kitchen Table
Stories: About Next Week, Breakfast in the Johnson Family, Economy Time, Family Game, Homework at the Kitchen Table, House Warming Party, At Home With Sharmila
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When you move to a new address, your contacts are alerted when they are in the vicinity of your new living quarters.
Stories: My Friend on the Elbe River
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Living Tiles are connected screen tablets that come in different sizes.
When the tiles are put next to each other in different combinations, a larger screen area can be created, and content from the different screens can be merged.
The screens communicate with each other, and an unlimited number of screens can be put together.
Device: Living Tiles
Stories: A Day in Johnny's Life
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A wristwatch, which no only shows you the time, but is also a mobile device with all its functionalities.
It can project content, such as a keyboard, on your lower arm, which functions as a touch sensitive surface.
Stories: A Day in Zhang's Life
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With train transport growing, you need a better opportunity to work onboard.
The trains are equipped with flexible working cubes. Each chair is rotatable, and depending of the number of people in your company, you can draw walls to create your own physical cubes. (See also Sound Walls in Train Transport). You can also take advantage of the Virtual Cubicland.
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Low-tech devices for disaster sensitive areas, such as water filters effectively distributed with data feedback, and sensors indicating risks of earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis etc.
Stories: A Day in M ichel's Life
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You need to live with your memories.
The Memory Shrine is a device that presents collected images, short film sequences, music and sounds, life history, relatives, important memories etc., at a random pattern, never repeating itself from time to time. A small polished stone in a drawer activates the device. As you hold and stroke the stone, the depth and intensity of the memories are increased.
Device: Memory Shrine
Stories: A Day in Minako's Life, A World Without Computers
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Micro Communities for local interest.
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Music Mesh gives you the ability to play in a virtual rock band with real instruments, and also to have band members from different locations.
Stories: A Day in Emre's Life
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Despite digital readers and e-paper, many people prefer to read newspapers printed on paper. Still, this creates very much paper waste and litter in cities and on public transport.
The Newspaper on demand is printed directly for you based on your reading preferences at local newsstands. It is printed in super-high speed on special paper with ink that has a limited lifespan, and the print fades after a couple of hours. When you have read your paper, you recycle it at one of the newsstands where you get the papers, and it can be printed again. As you recycle your paper, you get the next issue free; otherwise you have to pay for it. This eliminates the need for recycling logistics. For instance, you can pick up your newspaper when you enter the metro, and leave it on your way out.
Stories: Around and Inside Dresden
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Families spend less time together, and there is little time to prepare and gather around a traditional family dinner.
No Place Like Home is a restaurant where the idea is that you bring your own food and hire your own chef. The atmosphere is relaxed and casual, filled with people of all ages and styles. You sit with your family while a chef prepares the groceries you have brought with you, and when you come home, you have it all on movie so you can try the recipe yourself.
There’s often live music, and after dinner you move to the living room like part of the place, where you have coffee and dessert and socialize with other people.
Stories: A Day in the Life of the Johnson's, House Warming Party, Grandchildren and Neighbors
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You want to bring your distant colleagues, employees, friends and relatives closer to your life.
Office Aquarium, where you can check up on employees, colleagues and friends in real time.
Brings your office to your table, making your colleagues present and allowing for spontaneous interaction.
Device: Picture Aquarium
Stories: A Day in Sharmila's Life, Grandchildren and Neighbors, House Warming Party
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Network based game using an open innovation code to solve different problems in society. If you have helped solve a specific problem you get a reward.
Stories: A Small Crisis
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The Open Food Court Zones started as an initiative from Indiebank, giving people with small resources the opportunity to open up small food places with the help of micro loans. Mostly it is elderly women who are enrolled in the project and serve good-quality homemade food in the open courts.
The Open Food Courts are separate economic zones. No real money is involved. The entrepreneurs get each an account with a small sum by which they can purchase the first groceries. They only borrow little at a time. As soon as their businesses are beginning to show profit, the money is paid back automatically.
With the CashPoint (see Devices), even smaller entrepreneurs get a chance to sell their goods. At a flexible market place, CashPoints are available for rent, and allows anyone to reach the customers without having to rent expensive store space.
Device: CashPoint
Stories: A Day in Michel's Life
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Personal avatars on any screen for social interaction.
Stories: Economy Time
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You need incentives for people to behave in environmentally friendly ways. If they are rewarded for their choices, they will alter their behavior.
When you get fuel at a gas station, you get a different price according to various factors, such as what car you have, how much you drive, and other environmentally friendly choices you have made in your previous purchases.
Stories: A Day in Emre's Life
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You can get advice on how to spend your leisure time through personally relevant information on upcoming events and locations of interest.
Stories: A Day in Zhang's Life
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You don’t need to contact a doctor as soon as you are a little worried about your health and lifestyle, but still you need advice and answers to your questions.
The Portable Life Style Coach, which you can keep in your pocket, makes sure that you eat and take your medications properly. It also gives you suggestions for things to do, contacts to take etc. You can also use your Portable Life Style Coach to get advice in day-to-day questions on life style and health.
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When you make choices in your life, you want to know what impact your choices have on the environment, so you can adjust your lifestyle, both on a local regional and a global level.
An application were data is downloaded and feedback given on a local, regional and global level so it is apparent that positive environment choices have obvious consequences in many areas of life.
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A lamp hanging in the ceiling over a table, projecting any kind of content down on the table surface. You can view, browse, enlarge, turn and interact with the content in any way you wish.
The projector unit consists of three individual, adjustable projectors and a speaker system for communication.
When not in projector mode, the outer ring functions as a ceiling lamp with led lights
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The World Heritage sites are exposed to major threats through pollution, damage etc.
Creation of protected secluded zones (see Secluded Communities) around World Heritage sites.
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A city can implement a great deal of transparency, making it easy to access available government data. They can also use location-based services to provide information on elections and emergencies.
Stories: Ruby Freeman
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Instead of purchasing different services from different entrepreneurs, there is an open market for individuals and small companies that both want to make their local environment better, and benefit from the efforts thay have made.
When you have performed a task, and proven that you have been able to make a change, you get your reward.
Stories: A Small Crisis
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RFID chips embedded in food packaging.
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In a world where you can be reached anytime, anywhere, it becomes a luxury not to be reached.
The Secluded Communities are areas where there is no mobile connection, no GPS can find you, no Internet or wireless. When you enter the gate, you submit all your devices. Anyone trying to reach you can only find that you are inside that secluded community, but they cannot get any further.
Stories: Sharmila Malik, A Day in Sharmila's Life
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Eco Passport
Employment Matchmaking
Forum
Environmental Sponsorship
Environment Bubble
Everlasting Diary
Everlasting Schoolbook
Farm Experience
Friend Screen
Game on DIstance
GPS Necklace for Pets
Handshake Communication
Home Robot
Human Avatar
Hybrid Electricity Generator
iHome
iLove
Indiebank
Intelligent Garments Intelligent Training Garments
Intelligent House
Interactive Dist. Education
Life Balance
Light Wallpaper
Living Island Community
Living Kitchen Table
Living Moving Cards
Living Tiles
Living Wristwatch
Local Transport with Flexible
Working Cubes
Low-tech Devices for
Disaster Sensitive Areas
Memory Shrine
Micro Communities
Music Mesh
Newspaper on Demand
No Place Like Home
Office Aquarium
Open Code of Innovation
Open Food Court Zones
Personal Avatars
Personal Price Fuel
Personal Leisure AdvicePortable Lifestyle Coach
Power of the Masses
Projector Lamp
Protection of World Heritage
Real-time Local Democracy
Reversed Entrepreneurship
RFID Chips in Food
Packaging
Secluded Communities
Second Life 2020
Sensor Networks
Sensor Tatami
Shopping Logistics
Slow Motion
Smart Carts
Social Mapping Services
Sound Walls in Train
Transport
Space Tourism
Spider Computer
Storyteller
Synchronizing Table
Generation two of the Picture Aquarium, with touch sensitive interactive surfaces, where material can be moved from side to side.
Can be used for news, 3D TV and video conferencing, as well as an ambient light source, fireplace or aquarium.
Device: 3D Aquarium
Stories: A Day in Johnny's Life, Robert Johnson Does His Homework
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ACTIVE WALLS WITH DIGITAL SHADOWS
When you meet new people, it takes a while of talking to get to their specific topics of interest, and you may never realize that you have something in common.
Digital wallpaper, where the shadow of a person reflects her interests, i.e. a devoted kite-flyer’s shadow contains flying kites. Depending on the con, you can activate which layers of your personality you want to be reflected.
Stories: Housewarming Party
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Data gathered from mobile phones is used to provide real-time traffic information and help find other, alternate routes in advance, which leads to reduction of traffic jams. (See also TransPort)
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ADVANCED VIRTUAL PRESENCE / HUMAN AVATAR
You want to be present at an event, but cannot attend yourself. To follow the event on distance is not the same, since no one is aware of your presence.
Instead of following the event on distance, you hire a person to go there in your place, a human avatar. This person wears a special face and ear mask with your image projected, and you wear another mask at home, where you watch and hear everything. It is you who speak and listen; the human avatar simply does what he is told. Through silent instructions, you can ask him to look to the left or right, go and say hallo to a specific person etc.
Stories: Mel Tamahori
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There is a need for easy measurement of different health indicators in the home.
Sensors placed in the bathtub to measure different health indicators, such as body volume, body mass index, body fat, blood pressure etc.
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To wake up at the sound of an alarm clock is often unpleasant, and you feel uncomfortable being woken in the middle of deep sleep. Also, it is difficult to keep track of how much sleep you really need.
The Biological Alarm Clock finds a suitable time in your sleeping rhythm through sensors on your arm. It can also be programmed to monitor your total sleeping hours to make sure that you get enough, but not too much, of sleep.
Stories: A Day in Emre's Life, A Day in Ruby's Life
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COMMUNICATION CONSUMERS – MEDIA COMPANIES
Communication between consumers and media companies – giving personal usage info in return for relevant and location-based services to promote events and artists, bringing relevant media to consumers quickly.
Stories: A World Without Advertising
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Communication sofa – embedded in furniture objects. Chat with awareness, activities reflected on walls, digital shadows on the wall reflecting your personality.
Device: Communication Sofa
Stories: The First Visit
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You need a connection point in your neighborhood where you can meet friends and neighbors and get help.
The Community Center is mixing real world interaction with digital, providing people with a lot of help and access to devices they could never afford themselves.
Device: Connected Community Center Container
Stories: An Ordinary Tuesday, The Accident, Going to School at Home, Interview with Minako Aragaki, A Day in Minako's Life, A Game With Eriko, My Medicine
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When you hold your Spider Passport in front of an item at a shop, you get information about the product's history, were it was produced, how it has been transported etc.
Device: Spider Passport
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A ring which is kinked to a specific person. When you press the ring, the person gets immediately alerted.
Stories: A Day in Zhang's Life
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It is both awkward and time-consuming to undress and try clothes in a small changing room in the shop. The Digital Mirror allows you to see yourself in the clothes you are ordering in the privacy of your home and in a good light, without putting them on.
Stories: A Day in Sharmila's Life
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DIGITAL PASSPORT – CHOOSE YOUR ADVERTS
More and more people feel adverts and commercials are intrusive, and don’t want individual offers aimed at them without their consent.
With your Digital Passport, you can quickly check places such as adverts, shops or restaurants, and get info on specific offers directed to you. You look through a small window on the device, which shows you the information. The device stores your shopping habits and provides you with directed personal information, but only when you choose to get it.
Stories: A World Without Advertising
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Advanced system for sensing, preventing and preparing for disasters, such as earthquakes and floods, before they happen.
Stories: Michel Sudiro
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People spend many hours queuing in waiting rooms in hospitals for illnesses that could have been treated in a simpler and more effective way.
The Doctor in a Box is a device that you can either have in your home or can be brought to you by a home Samaritan, relative or friend. It offers distant healthcare with video conferencing for daily/weekly check ups like blood pressure and a simple blood test to see that you are fine and that the medications you take are working well. Immediately after the tests are taken the doctor’s face comes up on the screen. It also gives you the possibility to show the doctor where you have pain on a map or on a close-up of yourself, through a 3D observation glass and other objects for examination on distance.
Device: Doctor in a Box
Stories: A Day in Minako's Life, Local Hospital, The Accident, My Medicine
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E-paper, with updated news and rich media.
Stories: Interview with David Johnson, A Day in Ruby's Life
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Interactive wallpaper that can be changed and adjusted according to your preferences.Chat with awareness, activities reflected on walls, digital shadows on the wall reflecting your personality.
Device: Communication Sofa
Stories: The First Visit, House Warming Party
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When you shop, you want to know which alternatives that are most friendly to the environment, both regarding cultivation methods, geography, transports, packaging etc.
The Eco Controller is a pen that you use to scan the barcode or info tag embedded info the product you are interested in. In an instant you receive an eco-value for that product.
Stories: A Day in Emre's Life
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You want to keep track on your ecological footprint, and receive benefits if you are acting in a way that is good for the environment.
The Eco Passport is your personal identification and eco account, and also a communication platform.
For instance, you can quickly check the current eco-balance value of restaurants, shops etc. You look at different places through a small window on the device, which shows you the values. Through your choice, you increase your personal eco balance capital.
Stories: A Day in Emre's Life
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When enrolled in the Employment Matchmaking Forum, as soon as you become unemployed the Forum automatically employs you. You get paid as you search for a new job, but you must be available for jobs, long or short, as soon as you are needed. The Matchmaking Forum is anonymous, your age, sex or nationality is never shown, and its advanced matchmaking system matches your qualifications and merits with all jobs available. All financial matters, including tax are calculated automatically. Being linked to the system means that you are never unemployed for long periods.
You can also enroll in the Forum as you leave an employment by your own choice.
Stories: A Day in Ruby's Life
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You can act as en environmental sponsor to a remote village, where you can support them both financially and technically, and follow their progress in real-time.
Stories: A Day in Emre's Life
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With the help of digital wallpaper, sound and even smells, you can transform a room to a capsuled environment ("morning in the mountains", ""city at night", "day at the beach" etc.).
Stories: Bedtime
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Many people, especially the young, write in a diary, but they are always worried that someone else will find it and read it. Also, when you write in your agenda, you tend to mix private notes with school tasks, and you might not want to show your private notes when your agenda is on your school desk.
The Everlasting Diary is a book that you can keep on your shelf, and take down and browse through after many years. It is a digital book, but not a desktop computer, and not something that you update when there is a new model.
Covered in a book jacket of embossed high quality leather, it contains pages that you can turn and write on. When you are in school, only the school related topics in your agenda are active. Some are secret, and only activated when you move your finger over them. If anyone else finds your diary, the pages are blank to him or her.
You can exchange certain parts of the information with your friends by exchanging bookmarks that you keep inside the book. If you both hold your bookmarks, information is transferred. If you want to exclude someone from receiving information, you remove his or her bookmark.
Stories: The Books
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In school nowadays students mostly get used schoolbooks, which they are not supposed to write in. The books are often several years old, and the information in them is not always correct. Also, children often get back problems from carrying heavy backpacks filled with books.
When you start school you receive your own book. As soon as you enter each class, the topic of the book changes, and the chapter you are working on is active. You can write in your book and underline s. The books are updated digitally as information and teaching methods changes.
When you do your homework, you choose for instance ”history” on the first page of the book, and it becomes a history book.
Stories: The Books
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Children need to learn more about how food is produced and how to run a farm in an environmentally friendly way.
Farms are open to school classes who can make day visits, experience farm life and spend time with the animals. Before their visit, they can learn about the farm, how things work and what they can do to help. At the farm, they help with certain tasks according to a fixed schedule and at the end of their visit they can collect vegetables or dairy products that represent the value of which they have contributed to the farms income. After the visit, they can follow up the work on the farm.
Stories: Johnny Rogers, A Day in Johnny's Life
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A full-length mirror-like screen. Through the screen you can communicate with friends who also have the screen, and see them next to yourself.
Stories: A Day in Zhang's Life
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Cats and dogs are often seen as family members, and especially for old people they can be important companions.
GPS necklace for pets, so there will be ways of finding them if they get lost. The pet’s routines are mapped and they can indicate their human companion’s well being.
Stories: A Day in Minako's Life
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You can play a traditional card or board game with someone even though they are not present. The pegs or cards are moved as the other person plays where they are.
Stories: A Game With Eriko
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As you shake hands, you automatically exchange information. You can activate which layers you want to expose in the meeting.
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Home robot to help with everyday tasks in your home.
Stories: A Day in Minako's Life
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Anything that can be burned can be used to make electricity. If you hand in i.e. over-grown vegetables that you cannot sell, you can get paid in "tokens" or prepaid vouchers.
Stories: A Small Crisis, A Day in Alonso's Life
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Branded building, complete lifestyle solution offered by a strong brand.
Stories: Sharmila Malik, A Day in Sharmila's Life
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Exclusive branded matchmaking system.
Stories: Sharmila Malik, A Day in Sharmila's Life
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In the 2020 version of Second Life you can study languages, get an education and many other things.
Stories: A Day in Larisa's Life
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Sensor networks for water and noxious insects for making farming more effective. Ambient intelligence systems for micromanaging crops, saving on water use and early disease detection.
Stories: A Day in Alonso's Life
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You need to make someone else aware if you suddenly get ill and cannot get help by yourself.
As a part of the intelligent home, the sensor tatami mats sense your movements and indicate if you fall, if you lay too still, if your movement pattern is changing etc. This can be used in the home instead of a surveillance camera, which can feel threatening to your integrity.
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Shopping logistics through showrooms and home delivery. You don’t bring the things you buy with you; instead they are delivered to your home immediately.
Stories: A Day in Sharmila's Life
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As technology gets more advanced, producing items that are always faster, it allows humans to be slower. You needs quick technology to be able to move at a slow pace.
This is applied on movement (slow moving, where you use the travel time instead of getting as quickly as possible to one point), slow food (where cooking can take time) etc.
Stories: Time to Travel
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Smart Carts lets the customers know when they pass a product that is for sale, is on their shopping list or that they normally would buy but have forgotten today. Instead of expensive billboard or printed circuits, the retailers advertise their goods through GPS units, directed to each customer uniquely. They can also ensure that products meet the customer’s standards for fair trade, sustainability, and CSR.
Stories: Ruby Freeman, A Day in Ruby's Life
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Sometimes a friend can be close without anyone of you knowing it. Also, there might be people connected to your friends or relatives that you are not aware of.
Service that lets you see who of your friends are in the vicinity. Depending on your current preferences, you can see your own friends, their friends, their friends’ friends etc, up to a level of six degrees. You can also set the diameter of the area you are mapping.
This can be useful both when you are out travelling alone or if you want to get to know people at your new job.
If you don’t want any contact at the moment, you set the degree preferences to zero.
Stories: Mel Tamahori
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Commuting by train and working onboard is a growing trend. But the need for privacy is important. You don’t want to let someone else overhear your business meetings, and you don’t want to take part of other’s conversations.
Sound walls creating silent spaces through noise cancelling. When you draw the invisible sound curtains to mark your private sphere, you block out the sounds from entering and exiting those ”virtual walls”.
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Slow moving spaceships for transportation.
Device: 2020 Metropolis
Stories: A Day in Takashi's Life
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To travel in space is the journey of a lifetime, but it is not an option for single individuals.
Earth-space viewpoint, a physical link between earth and a space platform, enabling you to see earth from above, transported there by a capsule elevator.
Stories: A Day in Mel's Life, A Day in Ruby's Life
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Next generation ultra mobile device with projector and laser keyboard. It projects both keyboard and screen. Can be folded in an instance, carried in your pocket, and brought anywhere.
Device: Spider Computer
Stories: A Day in Sharmila's Life, Grandma's Computer
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The Storyteller is an audio book device, that reads for you when you have gone to bed. It senses when you fall asleep and stops reading for you. Next evening, it starts reading right before wher it was when you fell asleep yesterday.
Stories: A Day in Ruby's Life
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Table where you can place mobile devices, which are synchronized automatically.
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3D AQUARIUMGeneration two of the Picture Aquarium, with touch sensitive interactive surfaces, where material can be moved from side to side.
Can be used for news, 3D TV and video conferencing, as well as an ambient light source, fireplace or aquarium.
Stories: A Day in Johnny's Life, Robert Johnson Does His Homework
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To choose to live in another time than the present, with the help of technology, which filters and adjusts information accordingly.
Stories: A Day in Mel's Life
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Sometimes you need to be reminded of things in your life, such as when to take your medication, especially as you get older, you also want to be able to contact someone easily if you should feel the need.
Little token, carried in a chain around the neck, both for socializing and for reminders of vital information. It alerts you of things you must not forget, and it tells you if someone in your close network needs you. If you press your little token, the person in your network who is closest at the moment gets alerted. If they don’t respond, the signal goes further to the next person, and so on.
Stories: A Day in Minako's Life, A Day in Zhang's Life
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When you have a long-distance friend and are forced to stay apart for longer periods, sometimes it is not enough to be able to speak or even see each other.
The Touch Membrane lets you to feel the exact imprint someone is making on a dedicated surface, allowing for physical contact in real-time despite distance.
Device: Touch Membrane
Stories: A Day in Emre's Life, Larisa Petrichenko, A Day in Larisa's Life
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With the increasing internationalization, the need for quick translation between languages is growing.
With your Translation Passport, you can quickly check s on signs, labels, magazines etc. You look at different s through a small window on the device, which shows you the translation.
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Device that lets you see the traffic guidelines in front of you as hood-up information on the windscreen, or alternatively in a transparent window as you drive.
Traffic information gets updated in real-time. Data gathered from mobile phones is used to provide real-time traffic information and help find other, alternate routes in advance, which leads to reduction of traffic jams.
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Improving the traffic situation without changing its physical infrastructure, taking in consideration all means of transportation. It coordinates all available traffic options and synchronizes them. This gives people the best options needed for each transport distance. The system also relocates the transport resources to when and where they are most needed.
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Verbal typewriter, allowing you to see the text take shape visually as you speak.
Stories: A Day in the Life of the Johnson's
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Advanced video conferencing system where people can have contact with their working colleagues, relatives and friends at a distance.
Stories: A Day in Minako's Life
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At large companies, with many employees at different locations all over the world, much money and time is spent both on travelling and on various tele-conference solutions, that are not a satisfactory solution when it comes to working together.
The Virtual Cubicland allows you to ”open up” the walls of your office to other rooms, ”cubes”, no matter in which part of the world they are really located. The different spaces are managed through little cubes sitting on your desktop.
Device: Virtual Cubicland
Stories: A Day in Emre's Life, A Working Day for Emre
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The method of learning by ”trial and error” is not very wise in medical education, since patients’ life and health are at stake.
Medical education where you can treat virtual patients and learn how they respond to different treatments, medications, surgery etc.
Stories: Karem Selim, A Day in Karem's Life
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Virtual reality tours that enhance the experience at a museum. You can really visit the times and places that are the topic of the exhibition, through a combination of phusical display and augmented reality.
Stories:A Day in Zhang's Life
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A virtual reality fraud, where you are tricked into believing that you remove your virtual reality glasses and are back in reality, when you are really still in the virtual reality context.
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Virtual shopping in real-time with friends at a distance.
Stories: A Day in the Life of the Johnson's
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Instead of travelling yourself, you can experience virtual travelling, either by virtual reality or via a virtual human avatar (see Advanced Virtual Presence/Human Avatar).
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Virtual guided tour through the morning yoga.
Stories: A Day in Sharmila's Life
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Money can be difficult to conceptualize, especially by young people, who often take loans and make purchases that exceed their credit.
Interactive credit card where money is visible on the card. Wireless transactions of money between credit cards is made visible on the cards – you see the money moving, ending up on the other card. Also, when you shop, you see the money
disappearing from your card.
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Visual circles surrounding the electrical sockets in the home, letting you know how much electricity you spend. When the green circle around a socket is filled, it turns red, which means that the elctricity is more expensive.
Stories: A Day in Ruby's Life
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Wall TV – large flat screen TV in hyper high resolution (HD super), flat speaker sound system, touch sensitive surface. Can be combined with interactive real time distance education and communication with video.
Device: Wall TV
Stories: A Day in the Life of the Johnson's
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Shortage of drinking water has become an increasing problem in many parts of the world.
The global water and energy company Water To Life offers governments and regions to take over and handle infrastructure, purifying and distribution of water.
Many governments choose to outsource their water issues directly to Water To Life, who delivers a total solution according to a fixed contract. Water To Life is listed on the stock market.
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Translation tools, hyper-functional real-time language translation. World of Mouth offers a software platform enabling simultaneous translation through speech recognition and recognition.
Because of increased bandwidth, translation can take place in real time, based on a deeper understanding of language mechanisms, which makes the s personal and trustworthy. Verbal simultaneous interpretation.
Enterprise: World of Mouth
Stories: Johnson Family, A Day in the Life of the Johnson's, Mel Tamahori
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Active Walls with Digital
Shadows
Advanced Traffic GPS
Advanced Virtual Presence
Bathtub Sensors
Biological Alarm Clock
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Communication Consumers
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Communication Sofa
Community Center
Consumer Passport
Contact Ring
Digital Mirror
Digital Passport
Disaster Sensors
Doctor in a Box
E-Paper
E-Wallpaper
Eco Controller