As Myanmar opens up, will mobile money emerge?
It’s an unprecedented moment in Myanmar’s history as the country opens up to financing, technology and connectivity. Will mobile payments play a role in transforming the country?
Frog design President joins Quirky to help lead design, product
Designers are the new tech rockstars. Former Frog Design President joins Quirky.
Water ATMs emerge in India’s urban slums — a clean water breakthrough?
Are connected water ATMs the future of clean water distribution in the slums of urban India? Startup Sarvajal thinks so.
The internet of weird things at SXSW: smart porta potties, light books and a robot zen gardener
At the official kick-off party for SXSW, Frog Design created an installation around unusual objects embedded with technology, creating an Internet of truly weird things.
Printers are for toys, not newspapers: 20 predictions for 2013
Want to get your brain amped up this morning? Why not peruse the 20 tech trends for 2013 from frog design? the design consultancy has listed predictions that range from controversial to confusing with a few that may make you think.
GigaOM RoadMap Video Rewind: Frog Design’s Mark Rolston
Mark Rolston, Chief Creative Officer of Frog Design was one of the speakers at our inaugural GigaOM RoadMap conference, held earlier this month. In this conversation< he talks about how as computing become all pervasive, we need to rethink computers and how we interact with them.
How will we design products for the Internet of Things?
As revolutionary as the mobile ecosystem is, it’s the interactions of more intelligent connected devices with people outside the context of phones or computers that will drive more innovation says Mark Rolston, the chief creative officer at Frog Design at an event on Monday.
Tweet About TV With frog’s tvChatter iPhone App
frog design, the design firm with 40 years of experience advising clients on how best to create their consumer electronics and services, from Windows XP to Roku to TV Guide’s new web site, recently began making a few products of its own. Among the first is a social TV iPhone app called tvChatter, meant to be used alongside watching programs live or simultaneously with friends.
The free application will come out with frog client NBC (s GE) as a launch partner as soon as Apple (s AAPL) approves it (probably in the next week or so). It brings in a stream of Twitter updates that are deemed relevant to about 30 prime-time shows from various networks. When users give their Twitter credentials, they can tweet directly to a stream and follow along with either their friends or everyone else in the world watching the same show and tweeting about it.
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