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• Imagining 2076: Connect your brain to the internet
  New York Times online interactive, 12 December
  New York Times readers were invited to make predictions and collaboratively edit a technology timeline divided into three sections: a sampling of past advances in computing, predictions that readers could adjust on a timeline, and a form for readers' own predictions. Tens of thousands of edits were made.
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  • Nature of Technology: historical positioning of technology; sociocultural influences; interdisciplinary practice
• Ten big ideas for 2012
  NZ Herald online, 12 December
  A survey of some of the more remarkable trends and breakthroughs that may - or may not - come to pass in the next year. Discussion starter
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  • Nature of Technology: technological innovation - creative solutions versus socio cultural reality
• Qubic breaks with packaging tradition
  Idealog Daily Bacon article, 12 December
  An Auckland store is embracing the 'recycle and reuse' philosophy, fitting out its space with a range of everyday materials that have been reused in new ways. The approach to 'reusing' reminds consumers that even the simple things seen in a fresh way can be objects of delight.
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  • Characteristics of Technological Outcomes: flexible approach to packaging; fitness for purpose
• MIT's trillion frames per second light-tracking camera
  www.bbc.co.uk, 13 December
  A camera capable of visualising the movement of light has been unveiled by a team of scientists in the US.
  The equipment captures images at a rate of roughly a trillion frames per second - or about 40 billion times faster than a UK television camera. Direct recording of light is impossible at that speed, so the camera takes millions of repeated scans to recreate each image. The team said the technique could be used to understand ultrafast processes.
• Kiwi wows tech show with 'invisible computing'
  nzherald.co.nz online article, 15 December
  A robotic cook, a colouring book that comes to virtual life and movies that read your mind are some of the innovations on show at a cutting-edge computer technology exhibition in Hong Kong this week.
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  • Digital Technologies: Augmented reality technology
  • Technological modelling: Prototype development
• Ultra-fast broadband will help with competitive edge
  stuff.co.nz, 19 December
  The roll-out of UFB in New Zealand is a game-changer. Easy access to fibre will revolutionise business and smash the barriers of distance that many local businesses have felt in the past. It will enable small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to take full advantage of technology designed to streamline systems and processes and help give them a competitive edge.
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  • Digital Technologies: digital infrastructure - optical fibre communication; cloud computing; remote working capability
• Huge breakthrough in 'direct to brain' learning
  nzherald.co.nz online article, 21 December
  In what could be a massive breakthrough, scientists may have found the means to beam knowledge directly into our brains, transforming the learning process into a near effortless and automatic activity. Where things get really interesting is the potential mis-use of this discovery as researchers also discovered that their approach worked when test subjects were not aware that they were learning.
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  • Characteristics of Technology: interdisciplinary nature of technology
  • Characteristics of Technological Outcomes: proper function / alternative function
• China's completely recycled Christmas tree
  nzherald.co.nz online article, 22 December
  Staff at a hotel in China created a Christmas tree from 20-thousand used plastic water bottles. They did it to show concern for the environment and encourage recycling
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  • Characteristics of Technology Outcomes: fitness for purpose in its broadest sense
• Five tech trends to watch in 2012
  Mashable.com blog, 27 December
  2012 promises to be a very busy year in all things digital. This blog article highlights the five trends that are likely to make the biggest impact in enhancing our lives.
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  • Digital Technologies: picking the trends
• The high cost of failing artificial hips
  New York Times online, 27 December
  The most widespread medical implant failure in decades involves thousands of all-metal artificial hips that need to be replaced prematurely. The financial fallout is expected to be unusually large and complex because the episode involves a class of products, not a single device or just one company.
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  • Technological Products: material properties and performance characteristics
  • Nature of Technology: sociocultural factors - legal responsibilities
• Apropos appropriation
  New York Times online, 28 December
  A recent American court case has highlighted a fundamental truth hovering somewhere just outside the legal debate. It is the fact that today's flow of creative expression, riding a tide of billions of instantly accessible digital images and clips, is rapidly becoming so free and recycling so reflexive that it is hard to imagine it being slowed, much less stanched, whatever happens in court proceedings.
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  • Intellectual property rights: copyright protection - the principle of 'fair use'
• Mind-reading, tablets and TV are tech picks for 2012
  BBC News, 30 December
  The new year is a time for reflection on the year that has gone before, and to look to the future. In part two of their look ahead to 2012, a range of BBC experts give their insights into the technologies sitting on the horizon.
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  • Digital Technologies: technology in business trends - 'API-sation'; 'real-timeness'; cloud computing - the next wave; biometric security standards