One Week Left To Invent The Future

The year is 2017. You have access to a new sensing technology, one that can see, hear, remember, and understand everything around you. It’s tiny, so it can be put something you wear or carry 24/7. What would you do with it? What would you call it? What would it replace? This is the challenge Intel, working with Germany’s Hyve AG, set before the innovators of the world on 6 November 2012 as the “Intel Future Contest” . The contest is accepting entries online through 18 December in the form of videos, drawings, or just detailed text. More than 200 ideas have been submitted so far. A fair number, not surprisingly, are for some kind of wearable virtual assistant, activity tracking, or memory capture gizmo. But that’s not all people are thinking about. A few examples: —The Gardener. Instead of giving the sensing device to a person, this innovator puts it in the garden, where it...

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