Added 19 January, 2014
The Internet of Things is the concept that all the things we use around the house will be connected to us, and to each other. You've probably heard about refrigerators that are connected to the Internet, can alert you when you are out of milk, and even place the order itself online. If that is the direction that things are going, then why not have...
Added 19 January, 2014
Smart watches, socks, diapers... we have written about them all on WikiTrend. Wearable computers have breathlessly been reported on these pages for some time now as one of the Next Big Things. However, with few exceptions (like the transmitters on sharks in Australia that alert bathers to their presence), almost all the wearables we've spoken...
Added 16 January, 2014
KLM has been out in front of the social media curve for several years now. The Dutch airline has started many online trends, including initiatives that invited Business Class flyers to connect with each other before flying to facilitate business relationships. The airline is also one of the most active on Twitter and has a large social networking...
Added 14 January, 2014
Pizza Hut is the largest hot food delivery brand in the United States, as well as many other parts of the world. Up until now, if you wanted to order a delivery pizza, or Chinese food or whatever, most people would pick up the phone and call the store. The advent of delivery services like GrubHub and Seamless Web, both of which have popular mobile...
Added 13 January, 2014
The trend away from cash may be moving towards contactless mobile payments, but then again, maybe not. The process has been slow-going, with relitively few people adopting Google Wallet and other mobile-based payment systems. In the meantime, plastic credit cards contine to reign supreme. Problem is that credit cards are so successful that many...
Added 13 January, 2014
GE knows that the future of our homes is a wired world in which our appliances can wirelessly connect to the Internet and interact with us in ways that will, supposedly, add convenience and joy. That is the promise of the much-vaunted Internet of Things, a trend that will have our refrigerators, toasters and more connecting with us, and with each...
Added 13 January, 2014
Facebook and other companies already employ facial recognition technology to identify and tag people in photographs, but, until now, companies have withheld the tech from users for fear that it will undermine privacy rights. Of course, it's just been a matter of time that someone somewhere would put out an application that could let any user...
Added 12 January, 2014
Regular WikiTrend readers know about the Internet of Things, the concept that everything in our homes will be connected to one another on a network that will work seamlessly with our lives. Many products already exist including "smart" smoke detectors that alert you by mobile phone when they are triggered or need new batteries, and smart...
Added 12 January, 2014
Major American cable TV companies are losing customers at a record rate. The latest figures show that the companies lost about 113,000 subscribers in the third quarter of 2013, which is the beginning of a trend that is sure to accelerate over the next decade. The reason is that people are gravitating towards video on demand, rather than the old...
Added 8 January, 2014
There are lots of new brainwave-reading devices coming to the market that allow wearers to manipulate external objects just by thinking about it. We have already covered some of these, like the headset with furry "ears" that you can move just by thinking about it, the video game controllers that can your thoughts to moves to the screen, and the...