Google Wallet launched in the US today, sounds like the future has finally arrived. It promises contactless payments and the end to bulky wallets all in one universal device. More precisely Google Nexus S smartphone, with it’s NFC chip as that device. The concept is brilliant, but like all adoptions of technology it’ll take time for it to be cast out as standard payment option. It will require everyone to upgrade to a NFC chipped [...]

3M have invested a lot in pioneering research and are really trying to push things forward by introducing a new flexible micro pattern product which hopes to shape the future. (Quite literally!) It will be sold as a product to existing manufacturers and hopes to be the standard for malleable touchscreen technology. The possible uses of the “flexible transparent conductor” could be a fully functional touchscreen wrist strap, e-publications or gaming devices as shown in [...]

With the hotly anticipated ios5 imminent, Magician and performance artist Simon Pierro runs us through a beta preview on his iPad. It’s truly magical stuff.