Tag: SOCIETY

Wheretheladies.at, the finest low-hanging juicy fruit of geolocation, is now available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Using check-in data from Foursquare, the app provides a large, red easy-to-see-even-when-inebriated compass needle that points to wherever the ladies are at. At the moment, the service only works in San Francisco, which will no doubt exacerbate a gaping flaw in the system: ...

You know Amazon's Mechanical Turk? It's one of the more interesting services online: Take people and assign them microscopic tasks. They simply do the tasks and make money, and you get your tasks done. They're not your employees, and you don't even really know who they are. It's all very impersonal – an "on-demand, scalable workforce". Sparked takes that same approach and applies it to ...

What would you do? You're sitting on top of an innovation that would rock the world. This particular invention would change the entire make-up of both the virtual and real worlds -- in fact, it would inexorably merge them together, for better or worse. I am of course talking about face recognition. Face recognition already exists -- be it to biometrically to open doors, or ostensibly as a ...