WIMBLEDON AND IBM RANK THE
PROS
FACEBOOK RAMPS UP MOBILE
RESOURCES
Wimbledon’s official technology partner,
IBM, has instituted a 3-D printing
initiative that tracks live data statistics
from matches and prints corresponding
leader trophies every 20 minutes. Players
are assessed based on actual performance
on the tennis court along with broad
social media opinion. - PSFK
Facebook has now completed a partial
company acquisition of Monoidics, a UKbased soware verification company.
With the rise in mobile development, the
technical team of Monoidics will join
Facebook’s engineering team to work on
product development. - All ings
Digital
PREDICTING A BRIGHTER FUTURE
A CAR CONTROLLED BY
SMARTPHONE
A ONE-LETTER WORD FOR “THE”
Unorthodox Australian restaurateur Paul
Mathis has created a shorthand symbol
for the most commonly used word in the
English language, “the.” Seeking to
shorten the word for texts and other areas
of rapid communication, he has had an
app created that allows smartphone users
to tap into the shortcut. - PSFK
EXPLORING PARIS BY APP
SRI, the developing institute of Siri, has
begun work on a predictive desktop
assistant named Bright. e smart tech
will use sensors and stored memory of a
user’s actions to pull up necessary
information before a user knows they
need it. Experts predict applications in
both smartphones and laptops, among
many more. - PSFK
A team of students at Griffith University
in Australia have created an automated
car controlled solely by smartphone. A
partially 3D printed prototype has been
created and the team expects to have a
life-size version on the road by August
11th. - PSFK
AN NFC-TAGGED LIBRARY
Fujitsu has installed NFC tags to shelves in a Japanese
library. Library patrons can use their smartphone or
tablet to see additional information about books
before they borrow, leading the way to potentially
replacing (or augmenting) the classic Dewey Decimal
System. - PSFK
A new augmented reality app called
“Paris, en and Now” lets users see Paris
in a new way. In the app, historical
imagery is layered onto modern photos.
Users can see more than 2,000 landmarks
and places of interest as they appeared a
century ago, and can juxtapose the two to
see just how much time has changed
them. - PSFK