New tech trends worldwide 2015 from the Netexplo Observatory

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New Tech Trends 2015
Minter DIAL

Smart relations
building maturity  
and empathy
Our (too) smart
sustainable future
My “smart” life?
My smart,  
protective
surroundings

No Ad turns New York
subway billboards into real
works of art. The app
detects common posters
and replaces them, using
augmented reality to
create a gallery of
paintings or photos by
young artists.
No Ad
(USA)

Motivated by a
gamiﬁed mobile app,
connected cyclists
produce and transmit
useful data for urban
planning whenever
they use their bikes to
commute or for fun.
The aim is to use this
data to make the city
more bike-friendly.
Kappo
(Chile)

SmartWalk
displays real-time,
geo-located data
on walls or
sidewalks to inform
passers-by about
urban transport
(subway, bus, bike
stations, walking),
directions or local
stores.
Smart Walk
(USA)

Snips, a French startup
specialising in big data,
anticipates your needs and
puts them into context by
proposing geolocated
information and data
according to your location,
the time, your calendar and
your habits, which are
constantly recorded and
analysed. It’s the city at
your own pace.
Snips
(France)

A prototype drone
camera worn on the
wrist. The drone ﬂies
off to take a picture a
few metres from the
user, a selﬁe for
example, then
returns to the wrist.
An airborne
extension of the
self(ie).
Nixie
(USA)

An app designed
to show the
composition of
cosmetic products,
especially their
health impact. The
system references
more than 68,000
products, and rates
them from 1 to 10
on a “Dirty Meter”.
Think Dirty
(Canada)

These smart
chopsticks
ﬁtted with sensors
distinguish between
good oil (blue diodes)
and contaminated oil
(red diodes) and
display nutritional data
on a smartphone.
Baidu Kuai Sou
(China)

A miniaturised, low-cost
molecular spectrometer
that shows the
composition of an object,
food, a plant or medication
on a smartphone to check
its temperature,
ingredients, harmlessness
or authenticity.
SCiO
(Israel)

Developed by researchers
at Carnegie Mellon
University, these
programmable headlights,
comprised of sensors, a
computer and a projector,
automatically adjust
depending on the
environment and weather
conditions. The technology
also warns the driver of
potential road hazards.
Programmable headlights
(USA)

The “world’s smartest
motorcycle helmet”
offers its user an
augmented-reality
driving experience. Real-
time data is projected
onto the visor via
Bluetooth from a
smartphone, along with
the rear view from the
180° camera housed in
the voice-controlled
helmet.
Skully AR-1
(USA)

Inspired by Google Flu
Trends, Sickweather
analyses Facebook and
Twitter content mentioning
the symptoms of certain
diseases to show epidemic
zones like a weather report.
Through geofencing, users
receive an alert on their
smartphone when they are
near a hazard area.
SickWeather
(USA)

Created by eHealth Nigeria,
this simple mobile app
enables health workers to
report potential cases of
Ebola in real time.
Data is collected by
questionnaire, then
geolocated and modelled
to assess possible
outbreaks and allocate
resources more effectively.
Sense Ebola Followup
(Nigeria)

Smart relations
building maturity and empathy

This web service for teachers and
parents detects pupils’ speciﬁc
learning difﬁculties. The aim is to
correct them before they become
real obstacles, based on past
successes and failures. This
adaptive technology is enhanced
and improved with experience. It
draws on cognitive science for a
smoother learning process through a
personalised approach.
Branching Minds
(USA)

With this mobile
app, you take a
photo of an
equation and
obtain the step-by-
step solution on
your smartphone.
It’s a pocket maths
coach for school
students.
Photo Math
(Croatia)

Electronic ice cubes that
contain an accelerometer to
measure the mouthfuls of
alcohol consumed. This MIT
Media Lab innovation changes
colour (green/orange/red) with
consumption to encourage
moderation and pulsate to the
music (cool!).
A text message is sent when
the inferred blood alcohol
reaches the alert level.
Cheers
(USA)

You pick a friend, a volunteer or a
coach online and brief them about
the meeting you’re about to have
(work, date, family, etc.). They listen
in to your conversation and tell you
what you should say in real time by
messaging.
Tutoring for adults in the digital age.
Crowd Pilot
(USA)

An information and decision
tool on pharmaceuticals, this
search engine collects
scientiﬁc data and crowd-
sources the opinions of more
than 100,000 patients to
assess the efﬁcacy and side-
effects of medication and
compare alternatives and
treatment costs.
Iodine reconciles science and
opinion to empower individual
judgment versus “expert”
authority.
Iodine
(USA)

This cutting-edge technology
combines visual recognition and
artiﬁcial intelligence to recognise
and analyse motions from tiny
facial movements. The software
can interpret the emotions
revealed as well if not better than
a human being.
The possibility of understanding
and predicting behaviour gives it
a range of applications
(marketing, health, security, etc.)
CrowdEmotion
(GB)

This neuroscience-based
device changes the
wearer’s mood by
activating speciﬁc parts of
the brain through
electrical signals in order
to boost energy, calm the
wearer or sharpen their
concentration, as they
choose.
Thync
(USA)

Created by a psychologist, 7
Cups of Tea is a website and
app offering a free, anonymous
therapeutic listening service.
The service is based on a
community of 25,000 volunteer
"listeners", all trained in
psychology. Their aim is to
provide anonymous emotional
support in cases of depression,
eating disorders, anxiety, etc.
7 Cups of Tea
(USA)

Created by an artists’
collective, this system explores
the relationship between
identity and empathy.
Combining performance art
and neurosciences, the
immersive experience consists
of seeing oneself in a different
body (able-bodied/disability,
man/woman, thin/fat, white/
black) interpreted by an artist
who mimics the user’s
movements.
The machine to be another
(Spain)

No Ad (USA)
Kappo (Chile)
Smart Walk (USA)
Snips (France)
Nixie (USA)
Think Dirty (Canada)
Baidu Kuai Sou (China)
SCIO (Israel)
Programmable headlights (USA)
Skully AR-1 (USA)
SickWeather (USA)
Sense Ebola Followup (Nigeria)
Branching Minds (USA)
Photo Math (Croatia)
Cheers (USA)
Crowd Pilot (USA)
Iodine (USA)
CrowdEmotion (GB)
Thync (USA)
7 Cups of Tea (USA)
The machine to be another (Spain)

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