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Lynne Murray is a graduate of the Royal College of Arts, and co-founder of Holition, a digital studio creating cutting-edge augmented reality retail and holo­graphic experiences.

She marries the role of a trained designer, with that of a start-up, business leader. In-person she is warm and engaging and combines a fierce creative intellect, with world-class expertise on future focussed fashion and retail branding.

She speaks with authority and con­fid­ence on the devel­op­ing language of the digital body and throws out some fas­cin­at­ing ideas during the course of our conversation.

She has recently been appointed as Director of Digital Research at London College of Fashion, with a brief to explore new chal­lenges for tech­no­logy in fashion and establish a dialogue around the emerging research field of Digital Anthropology.

In this interview, Lynne talks about how dialogues in digital fashion, tech­no­logy, augmented-reality and wearable computing are re-shaping ideas about the future of the body.

More info:

http://fashiondigitalstudio.com

http://holition.com

hypernetec catches up with the fast-moving Tom Emrich, founder of We Are Wearables, North America’s largest wearable tech community.

Writer, speaker, con­sult­ant and community builder, Tom keeps busy by acting as focusing lens for fast emerging technologies.

A natural connector and the earliest of early-adopters, Tom was one of the first Canadian’s to adopt Google Glass. He co-produced the first Wearable Tech con­fer­ence in Canada (WEST), and has created two apps for Glass.

He makes regular appear­ences on Canadian TV and radio as a wearable tech speaker and was recently listed as the third most influ­en­tial person in wearable tech by analytics firm Onalytica.

Show Notes

Intro­duc­tion

Toms’s Trend Picks from CES 2015:

Death of the Activity Tracker

Virtual Reality Makes a Big Splash

Gear VR

Google Cardboard

Child & Pet Wearables

Smart Jewellery Trend

The rise of smart jewellery as an indic­a­tion of better aes­thet­ics in wearable tech design.

Ringly

Apple Watch

Kovert Designs

Swarovski/Misfit

The Current State of Augmented Reality

HoloLens

Meta — Space­Glasses

Sulon Cortex

Magic Leap

Toms verdict: Not ready for primetime. Expect developer kits soon.

Apple Watch. Destined to be a hit?

The import­ance of digital touch in a networked world.

What to Watch for in 2015

Tom's Top trends of 2015.

Hyper­netec interviews Dr. Rafael Grossman, a trauma surgeon, medical futurist, and Google Glass explorer, working our of Eastern Maine Medical Center in the state of Maine.

Dr. Grossman talks about his experiences using Glass in clinical trials and his thoughts about using it as an aid for medical practioners and healthcare professionals.

Dr. Grossman was the first surgeon to use Google Glass in an operating theatre, in June 2013. He is a passionate advocate for the potential of wearable technology in medical environments.

He talks about his early experiences with Glass, the current restrictions of the device and why he believes wearables have explosive potential as future medical tools.

He outlines some clinical scenarios for the use of glass and explains why he believes the technology has a powerful role to play in the future of both medical practice and education.

Music: 'Hyperbola' - Artist - Tejaswi

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Hypenetec visits the North Yorkshire office of UK jewellery business, Kiroco, the creators of Kiroco Touch Jewellery, an innovative, smartphone savvy, interactive jewellery range.

We chat with the companies M.D. and Master Jeweller, Nigel Townsend and discuss Kiroco's ethos, products and its plans for the future.

Winner of the Best Innovation of the Year Award, at the 2014 Wearable Technology Expo, Kiroco products combine the elegance of traditional decorative jewellery, with cutting-edge digital technology.

The result, is a unique range of smartphone-enabled jewellery that refines the role of one of our most ancient cultural artefacts, by adding a new and engaging interactive twist.

Kiroco products take the sentiment of gifted jewellery and allow it to be translated into messages, video, pictures and audio. The resulting timeline, is 'locked' inside the jewellery and can be only be accessed when the wearer touches it to an NFC enabled smartphone.

The jewellery timeline can be updated long afer the giving of the gift. The result, is a combination of decorative item and evolving personal time-capsule.

Kiroco products bring the sentiment and emotion that has always been a part of jewellery, firmly into the the 21st Century.

More at http://kiroco.com

Thanks to Nigel, Fiona and the Kiroco team.

Music: 'Hyperbola' - Artist - Tejaswi

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