Moment Allows Navigation on Your Skin
Tracing your GPS direction on your skin; Doubling smartphone use in Africa; Plantsss the ultimate green app; Virtual farming at Eataly
Moment is a wristband that traces your GPS direction on your skin. Instead of having to rely on your smartphone for navigation, it suggests the direction to take via a signal on your wrist. Click talks to the key researcher of the gadget, Shantanu Bala.
African Smartphone Use
Smartphone use in Africa has doubled. The big driver is the huge drop in the price for smartphones which are even cheaper of course when second-hand. Michael Kaloki reports from Nairobi.
Plantsss: One of the Greenest Apps Around
Plantsss was created by the Chilean garden designer Max Delporte with the aim of democratising gardening. Using your GPS location this app – a recent winner at Latin America’s Green Awards in Ecuador - gives you information about the best kind of plants to use in your area. Click’s Jane Chambers went to Mahuida Park on the outskirts of Santiago to meet the two founders Max Delporte and Santiago Lyon for a demonstration of Plantsss.
Eataly
Carlo Ratti has a plan to reconnect you with the simple pleasure of growing your own organic food. But the catch is you will do so digitally. Click talks to Ratti about his plans for a new kind of farming that will be unveiled in Bologna, Italy.
(Photo: Moment wristband © Somatic Labs)
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How to navigate with your skin
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