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• Could your phone be hacked?
  TV1 News, 8 July
  A TVNZ reporter investigates just how easy it could be to hack into your voicemail
  Discussion starter:
  • Digital Technologies: data protection
• Geo-immersion makes maps come alive
  Innovationwatch.com video, 11 July
  Imagine a virtual computer simulation that reflects the world around you in real-time. Before you ever leave your home, a wealth of images and information about the world around you is at your finger-tips.
  Discussion starter:
  • Digital technologies: Blending the real and virtual worlds; software applications
• Free online games reflect sea change
  www.stuff.co.nz, 11 July
  Wellington games developer Sidhe will release its first browser based and social smartphone games in the next few months as it shuns bricks and mortar retailing for digital downloads.
  Discussion starters:
  • Digital technologies: gaming technology; modes of distribution
  • Enterprise: marketing strategies
• How the new Christchurch might look
  TV3 Campbell Live video, 11 August
  With the release of the blueprint for the new-look Christchurch CBD - including light rail, a new aquatic centre and European-style boulevards and precincts - a 3D modeller takes the images and creates a virtual experience.
  Discussion starters:
  • Design and Visual Communication: urban regeneratio
  • Digital Technologies: 3-D computer modelling
• The hot new search engine - and no, it's not Google-flavoured
  Idealog Daily Bacon E-newsletter, 20 September
  At 18, Daniel Gross was the youngest ever graduate from US incubator YCombinator. Now, along with co-founder Robby Walker, he's the 19-year-old head of Greplin, a user-authorised search engine that can reach parts of your online life that Google can't.
  Discussion starters:
  • Digital Technologies: computer programmin
  • Nature of Technology: idea generation; innovation incubators
• Is the NZ's next big success story?
  TV3 Campbell Live video, 21 September
  Young Entrepreneur of the Year Victoria Ransom has developed a software product which is being used by the likes of Facebook, Sony, Pepsi and Universal to market their brand on social networking sites. She led her company Wildfire to profitability in just one year, and in two years it has grown from seven to 170 employees
  Discussion starters:
  • Digital Technologies: Social media - software applicatio
  • Enterprise: commercialising a good idea
• Teachers use GPS to track children
  NZHerald.com article, 23 September
  Daycare centres in Sweden have started using GPS systems and other electronic tracking devices to keep tabs on children during excursions - a practice that has raised ethical and practical questions.
  Discussion starter:
  • Characteristics of Technology: socio cultural influences; ethical practice
• A band of robots tackle the haka
  Stuff.co.nz article and video, 21 October
  Canterbury University students have "trained" robots to perform the haka in time for the Rugby World Cup final. The four computer science interns used the Kinnect program to mimic human movement. This movement is then directly mapped to the robots.
  Discussion starters:
  • Digital Technologies: human-robot interaction
  • Characteristics of Technological Outcomes: 'proper' and 'alternative' function
• Growing New Zealand Business - Ponoko
  TVNZ Business News interview, 25 October
  If you can dream it up, odds on Ponoko can make it. Using Ponoko.com systems you can design online or customise an existing design, then they'll make it and send the finished product back to you.
  Discussion starters:
  • Digital Fabrication Technologies: Design tools; CAD softwar
  • Manufacturing Technology: distributed manufacture
• Move over geeks, gaming is seriously mainstream
  NZHerald online article, 27 October
  Latest research shows that gaming is no longer just for moody teenagers, geeks or boys who like their toys. Today's gamers are more likely to be in their 30s - and almost half of them are female.
  Discussion starter:
  • Gaming Technology: demographics; 'snack gaming'
• First Te Reo smartphone introduced
  Idealog Daily Bacon article, 3 November
  Mobile operator 2degrees has just unveiled the world's first Te Reo Māori smartphone, an IDEOS X3 that will go on sale before Christmas.
  Discussion starter:
  • Information and Communication Technology: cultural connection
• Kiwi's iPhone app snaps precious images
  NZ Herald online article, 3 November
  A New Zealand tech entrepreneur with Silicon Valley finance has helped turn iPhones into pocket photo scanners that can rival commercial archivists.
  Discussion starters:
  • Digital Technologies: computer science and programming; 'algorithmic spotting'
  • Characteristics of Technology: convergence of technologies
• 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.
  Discussion starter:
  • Nature of Technology: historical positioning of technology; sociocultural influences; interdisciplinary practice
• 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.
  Discussion starter:
  • Digital Technologies: picking the trends