SparkFun Air Quality Breakout, that is a digital gas sensor solution that senses a wide range of Total Volatile Organic Compounds

heart rate sensor, such as a Single Lead Heart Rate Monitor, into a sweater could be a quick solution as opposed to bulky or obvious options. https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12650

track the movement of bees

Nonny De La Peña, considered the “godmother of virtual reality” and a pioneer in immersive journalism, is quoted as saying the holographic technology would be a “journalist’s dream come true.”

The work being done at 8i Studios in Culver City, Calif., involves capturing real actors and, through software, creating a photorealistic hologram inside a virtual reality scene or augmented in real life through devices such as VR headsets or smartphones.

A demonstration video from 8i Studios showed how they capture life actors talking and moving against a green screen with more than 40 cameras rolling. This is translated into realistic, moving images that are then placed in VR environments.  It’s as if the live actor is in the “room” with the user.

Currently, there is no live motion capturing technology, but one can imagine the impact that would have on journalism.

De La Peña said in a Wired article that live VR capturing would be “the Holy Grail” of journalism. She added that the ability to do this is just around the corner.

Is television obsolete? … Yep.

ith AI getting more affordable and better, it’s easy to understand why chatbots are “popping up” everywhere. Also, the “unthinkable” has occurred…according to research from BI Intelligence, as of Q1 2015, more people were using the “Big 4” messenger apps (WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, and Viber) than people using the “Big 4” social media networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram). And by Q3 2015, that number was poised to reach 1 million.

Looking at the Innovator’s Dilemma, I feel like Apple knows how far it can go in terms of innovation, but it holds back, knowing that they can’t give the consumer everything they can because, otherwise, they have nothing new to give them year after year.

Travel is an immersive experience, so it’s important to make travel VR equally as immersive for users. It has to go beyond traditional destination videos and 360 images.

I have to ask, in light of Google awarding the British news organization, the Press Association, $805,000 to develop a way to automate 30,000 local stories a month, “How do robotic/AI journalists develop source?”

the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving, a study on the concept of innovation. In TIPS, it’s hypothesized that all innovations are created by either a) adding new parts to existing inventions or b) changing/improving weak parts. To put it simply, all innovations are adaptations of existing technology. Hence, Viewtron and the modern smartphone.

Using fingerprint scanning sensor technology, I would look for a story regarding how police stations might utilize fingerprints in ways not linked to investigation. It might be interesting to see how long fingerprint scans are kept on file and if that information is ever sent to other states, countries or sold to other companies. I would expect to collect information using a fingerprint scanner like this one form SparkFun. https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13007

 Lytro Cinema, an almost comically large filmmaking camera that sports the highest-resolution video sensor ever made, capturing as much as 400 gigabytes per second.