There was a lot of news this past week. Here are some stories that caught our eyes. Stadium in Berlin Gets Transformed Into Giant Living Room for World Cup, Includes 700-inch Television —TechEBlog “Best of all, admission is free for the giant living room, known as WM Wohnzimmer,
Just like Joe Camel, e-cigs’ popularity is due to the “cool” factor. That’s what Michael Steinberg from the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School found when he conducted a study comparing e-cigs and nicotine inhalers. E-cigs were also considered more satis
Apple is aggressively focusing on indoor cartography in order to compete with Google’s venue mapping efforts. And it appears that Apple is ahead of Google, because of the iBeacon technology that it has been planting in venues for some time. “iBeacons don’t specifical
The color blue is known to have a calming effect and can spark creativity. Now, let’s add hunger to that list. According to a new study, blue-enriched light exposure was associated with an increase in hunger 15 minutes after light onset and still lingered two hours after the mea
Imagine if your venue could adapt to your guests’ emotional states. That may seem like fantasy, but one group is working on it. The STAN (Science Technology Architecture Networks) research project is exploring whether buildings can reflect human emotions. The group created a Twi