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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'
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
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
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
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

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