Gramercy Park Consulting

This is the blog of Simon te Brinke, digital communications strategist and principal consultant of Gramercy Park Consulting (GPC). Located in Perth, Australia, GPC provides clients with specialist digital consultancy services. GPC partners with corporate and government clients to develop innovative digital communications and business strategies by blending new technologies with creative thinking and emerging digital channels such as the internet, mobile commerce and social media. Contact Simon at stebrinke@gramercypark.com.au or +61 418 943 441

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The Bike Share System of the Future is Powered by Wireless Technology

This Fall, New York City denizens will have the opportunity to test an experimental public bike share system. SoBi, the Social Bicycle System, presents an alternative to traditional public transportation and will allow riders the freedom to find and unlock nearby available communal bikes using an Andriod or iPhone application.

SoBi is the first public bike share system to rely entirely on wireless technology for tracking, locating and unlocking bikes. The system is compromised of three elements: the social cyclist, the central server and the social bicycle.

Read the full article here: http://mashable.com/2010/08/11/sobi/

 

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Half of us text our families - when we're all at home

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Street Slide – Microsoft Research creates multi-perspective street panoramas from Street View imagery

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Pew Study Claims One Fifth Of American Adults Don’t Use The Internet

The Pew research center put out survey results today on broadband adoption and Internet use in America. There was one data point that I found startling. According to the survey, 21 percent of American adults say they don’t use the Internet. One fifth of all Americans.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/tEwMiw4t-jU/

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Android’s Awesome Gesture Search: Turn Your Phone And Write (Techcrunch)

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mayawaikiki: Step aside rail system! Check out what China is building. “A Chinese company is looking to build buses so big cars can drive right under them, which will ease congestion. The company is serious about it, too. Being developed by the Shenzhen Huashi Future Car-Parking Equipment company, the buses are currently planned for Beijing’s Mentougou district, where tracks on the road will make sure they stay straight as cars drive under them — and they drive over cars. ” [ via Dvice ]

mayawaikiki:

Step aside rail system! Check out what China is building.

“A Chinese company is looking to build buses so big cars can drive right under them, which will ease congestion. The company is serious about it, too. Being developed by the Shenzhen Huashi Future Car-Parking Equipment company, the buses are currently planned for Beijing’s Mentougou district, where tracks on the road will make sure they stay straight as cars drive under them — and they drive over cars. ” [ via Dvice ]

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Magnetic Snap-on Lenses for iPhone Camera

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quitting his job in Pune to solve an engineering problem he’d been thinking about for twenty years. Today his solution – a mobile-phone adaptation that triggers irrigation pumps remotely – is saving water in India and helping more than 10,000 farmers avoid several taxing, dangerous long walks a day
— Jugaad: Questions for Santosh Ostwal | The Economist (via interestingsnippets)
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Madgets – magnetic widgets for multi-touch tables that provide the rich haptic feedback and change color based on interactions

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