Written By Josefine Koehn on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 at 6:41 PM | In Technology Trends, Lifestyle Trends, Germany, USA | Please Comment
The next generation of sound systems for the road features THX technology.
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We all know the super surround sound technology from the movies, the little flying THX-man who seems to take us into another acoustic sphere. THX Ltd. was established in 1983 by filmmaker George Lucas to improve the way cinema audiences experience feature films. […]
Written By Josefine Koehn on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 8:01 PM | In Technology Trends, Lifestyle Trends, Germany, USA | Please Comment
Pervasive games extend the gaming experience to the physical world and allow gaming in the streets, offering a combination of tracking and location based interaction.
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We here at CScout are avid gamers. Fortunately we get to see the daylight quite a bit on our global scouting missions. Therefore, we love to hear about games that […]
Written By CScout US on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 at 5:23 PM | In Technology Trends, Lifestyle Trends, Germany, CScout News | Please Comment
Last year Deutsche Bank opened a futuristic pilot store, named “Q110″. The “Deutsche Bank der Zukunft” (German bank of the future) is located at famous Friedrichstrasse in Berlin.
CScout went to visit the innovative subsidiary. “I was positively impressed”, says CScout Managing Director Germany, Monty Metztger. “There were lots of innovative ideas. I can […]
Written By admin on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at 4:58 AM | In Lifestyle Trends, Germany, CScout News | Please Comment
The second annual Digital Lifestyle Day has come to a close. Two days of intensive panel discussions on the current state and the future of our digital lifestyle.
From Google’s Marissa Mayer to star DJ Paul van Dyk. From Esther Dyson to Dr. Joseph Vardi the panels were thought provoking and innovative. Here […]
Written By admin on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at 8:47 PM | In Technology Trends, Germany, Japan, CScout News | Please Comment
January 23-24 / DLD 06
We are proud to announce that CScout is a partner of the Hubert Burda Media Digital Lifestyle Day.
CScout will be presenting innovative trends and gadgets to the exclusive and international list of participants and speakers.
Together with the networking expertise of the team at Hubert Burda, CScout has brought ASIMO […]
Written By Josefine Koehn on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 5:54 AM | In Technology Trends, Germany, USA, Japan | Please Comment
Megatrend: Wireless
WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is a wireless broadband network which makes it possible to deploy whole communities with a functioning wireless infrastructure.
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With Digital Communities, Intel has pushed the roll out of WiMAX. Goal of the initiative is to help communities around the world carry out the sometimes controversial rollouts. Other […]
Written By Monty Metzger on Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 5:54 AM | In Technology Trends, Germany | 1 Comment
Megatrend: Wireless
Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) allows the delivery of multimedia content and services “on the move”.
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A whole new world looks set to emerge with video-on-the-go services. Since the European Telecommunications Standard Institute ETSI has approved the DMB standards for the delivery of multimedia content and services “on the move”, France, Germany, Italy, the […]
Written By Josefine Koehn on Monday, November 14, 2005 at 4:25 AM | In Marketing Trends, Technology Trends, Lifestyle Trends, Germany, USA | Please Comment
Mega-Trend: Location based services
Pervasive games allow gaming in the streets offering a combination of tracking and location based interaction.
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Developers are still experimenting to find the new killer application for location based services on cell phones. Location-based games might have what it takes. They not only use the new technology but also focus on the […]
Written By Monty Metzger on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at 12:25 PM | In Technology Trends, Lifestyle Trends, Germany, CScout News | 1 Comment
Yesterday I have been invited by Martin Bachmayer to explore the new Xbox 360 in Munich.
In an exclusive apartment in munich, Microsoft presented the Xbox 360 on the so-called “Livingroom Tour 2005″. I was impressed about the perfect quality and realistic graphics of the game-engine on the huge High Definition (HD) TVs. The high performance […]
Written By Monty Metzger on Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 11:45 AM | In Technology Trends, Lifestyle Trends, Germany | Please Comment
Wearable Computing is a growing research & development sector for small portable computers that are designed to be worn on the body during use.
Meta-trend: Ubiquitous Computing, Wearable Computing
Trend Category: Lifestyle; Technology; Product Innovation
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Mobile technology is ubiquitous. It is not uncommon to carry a mobile phone, a PDA, and an MP3 player, plus the necessary […]
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