Elephant seals equipped with antennas on their heads to map the oceans; satellites being used to target mosquitoes; an SMS system preventing the sale of counterfeit medicines in Ghana; smartphones that can predict you’re going to get depressed; credit cards that know two years before you do that you’re headed toward divorce; pills that transmit information directly from your body to your physician.
These and other stories are being told through “The Human Face of Big Data,” the latest groundbreaking, globally crowdsourced initiative from Rick Smolan, the creator of the “Day in the Life” series. The project, made possible through primary sponsorship from EMC® (NYSE:EMC), is based on the premise that the real-time visualization of data collected by satellites, and by billions of sensors, RFID tags, and GPS-enabled cameras and smartphones around the world, is enabling humanity to sense, measure, understand and affect aspects of our existence in ways our ancestors could never have imagined in their wildest dreams.
To view Multimedia News Release, go to http://www.multivu.com/mnr/58095-rick-smolan-human-face-of-big-data-project-globally-crowdsourced
Help protect the environment with Sony technology & crowdsourcing. Using crowdsourcing in conjunction with existing Sony technology and your ideas, Sony and WWF have created the Open Planet Ideas initiative which encourages you to get involved and be creative and to submit your ideas on how technology could be repurposed and put together a plan to help protect the environment.
The best crowdsourced ideas will then go to Sony and a panel of experts to be realised and go towards hopefully helping to save the environment.
Open Planet Ideas - Using Sony technology to protect the environment.
The Internet now has a vineyard — a premium, award-winning one at that. Beginning today, Columbia Crest — the only Washington winery to be awarded Wine Spectator’s No. 1 Wine in the World* — will help the online community of wine-lovers create the first-ever Crowdsourced Cabernet Sauvignon from the beginning stages of the vineyard all the way to bottling and selling the wine through a new online experience.
To view the Multimedia News Release, go to: http://www.multivu.com/players/English/7289351-columbia-crest-winery-vineyard-to-table-crowdsourced-cabernet-sauvignon/
Last year, Columbia Crest became the first winery to crowdsource a wine from vineyard to table through an interactive online community experience called Crowdsourced™ Cabernet. While the resulting wine of the 2014 vintage ages in barrel, the Crowdsourced Cabernet community will still have the chance to weigh-in on important winemaking decisions. First, Columbia Crest will be expanding the program by adding a 2015 vintage and allowing one lucky fan to play a larger role in the winemaking process. In addition, fans will be able to participate in critical weekly voting decisions for both the 2014 and 2015 vintages online at CrowdsourcedCabernet.com and, new for this year, choose the label design for the 2014 vintage.
To view the Multimedia News Release, go http://www.multivu.com/players/English/7409452-columbia-crest-crowdsourced-cabernet/
