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PostSecret's smartphone app was crowdsourced over a two-year period, and gives users a chance to browse through secrets based on location, presumably in an effort to let users reach out to...
The great power of this system comes from taking data from many users, in other words crowdsourcing it. This sharpens the floorplan, making it more accurate. It also allows them to infer...
Having supervised a number of water recreational surveys in her career in the past, Mrs Harris is looking forward to analysing the results from this crowdsourced national survey. “As far as we...
The Gap store on Chestnut Street, San Francisco has become the first retail partner for Roqbot, allowing its customers to decide what they listen to while they shop.
SkyLight, an adapter that claims to connect almost any smartphone to any microscope will go on sale in March. The device’s designers received funding to create the device via crowdsourcing...
Most Geiger counters for personal use cost around $200, prohibiting many from measuring radiation for themselves. That's where non-profit organisation radiation-watch.org has stepped in....
The Suspicious Activity Reporting Application is exactly what it sounds like. See something that looks like a violation of the law, no matter how insignificant? Snap a pic, tag it with GPS, and...
CitySourced is billed on its website as "a real time mobile civic engagement platform." The platform provides "a free, simple, and intuitive platform empowering people to identify...
The project can be accessed online, and also targets low-level crimes unrelated to the riots and a further 2,000 images are available to virtual vigilantes.
Human-powered crowdsourcing is often used for simple tasks that computers can't easily handle, but the researchers believe that applying it to more complex tasks can provide a highly...
LAUSD has a new weapon to help them repair crews stay steps ahead of the problems — with an army of 700,000 students. Through analytics technology provided by IBM, and a mobile app through IBM...
pressureNET , a crowdsourcing tool designed to collect data from Android phones and submit it to meteorological researchers for better forecasting. Interested users begin by downloading...
Those of us living the big city life often forget that there are ample places in the great outdoors where cellular signal is nonexistent. The solution? Walkie-talkies. They provide a direct line of...
Devicescape’s whole business model is designed around the idea of providing cheap ubiquitous Wi-Fi to carriers. Through crowdsourcing, it has identified and mapped 12 million open access points...
This article presents you with two videos: The first video shows a so-called "Roundphone" concept, a biscuit-shaped smartphone device that uses holographic projections as a screen....
Apple is making good on decades of thought and promise, from its Knowledge Navigator concept and even the too-early-to-market Newton device.
Suren Ter-Saakov – the Russian IT expert behind the portal – claims to have crowdsourced around 50 million unique IP addresses that have file-shared all manner of music, video and software...
Jason Toews, the co-founder of GasBuddy.com, says his company receives about 500,000 gas price reports every day. "The data is all crowdsourced," he says. "It's all based...
The application was developed through a partnership between the MBTA and ELERTS, creators of an industry-first personal safety social network for emergency notification. ELERTS is creating better...