Your Moods

Your outlook on life can be changed simply by your posture. You know how you can spot a very confident or shy person just by reading their body language. Well the reverse is true as well. If you try to stand taller and take up more room even when doing a video conference, you will see a change in the attitude towards your surroundings. The same is also true for people that drive large cars, they seem to have more confidence on the road and might be a bit more brash than others. Another factor that affects your moods and outlook is the weather. Everyone loves a sunny day but it can impair your judgement. Nothing can go wrong on those sunny days, right? Well, as it turns out, there are other colors on the spectrum that do freaky things to your brain: Being exposed to green can apparently make you more creative. So much for being in control of your moods despite your surrounding. There needs to be a way to take advantage of these little quirks.

Customized Computing

Does it sometimes seems like the computing these days knows a little too much about you? Is it really possible that we can all be reduced down to an algorithm? That is a rather disturbing thought. The other day when I picked up my phone, it seemed like that my day was planned to the minute. Even the news is very much customized. Your phone is constantly gathering what the app developing ones call signals. These could be your commuting habits, which the phone can glean from its internal GPS, often within a few feet. Your phone could also gather your meetings, your future trips, your friends and family, your favorite sports team, the type of news you usually read and even things like your heart rate. Things really get interesting when the apps that gather these signals start to be predictive. When that happens, your phone can start anticipating your needs, interests and habits and give you relevant information, apps and even coupons and ads.