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Quite often when it comes to obesity the emphasis is on losing weight rather than becoming healthy, rather than an emphasis on being healthy and having good self-esteem. And for children, it can be particularly difficult to get this latter message across using traditional methods. Considering children’s status asdigital natives, this is where technology can be utilised. Southern California’sStuart Karten Design(SKD) has devised a concept project calledDownWithDenimthat embraces social networking, mobile technology andaugmented reality....

You could soon be able to ‘feel’ touchscreen displays, thanks to technology being developed in Sweden. Senseg’s E-Sense technology is designed to recreate the feeling of a wide variety of textures on touchscreen devices. It uses ‘tixels’ (tactile pixels) to generate an electric field several millimeters above a device’s surface. This enables finely-tuned sensations to be created on the your skin, replicating all sorts of textures – you don’t even need to actually touch the screen to feel them, either....

In the eleven months sinceInstagramlaunched, we’ve seen mobile photo sharing explode via countless apps hoping to grab users with their own take on easy taking and sharing of photographs. One of the latest contenders to emerge isTadaa. Hailing from Hamburg, Germany, the team behind Tadaa have built an app that on the surface offers similar functionality to Instagram (take a photo, add a filter, post it to other social networks and see what other users are posting), but adds its own tweaks which make it well worth a look if you’re a serious photo sharer....

David Parker is one of those rockstar entrepreneurs that has successfully woven together his personal passions and education into a truly marketable and profitable product. His company,Tadcastis riding the modern video trend and taking product placement to the next level. Parker was studying at Columbia’s engineering school, but wasn’t satisfied, so he decided to pursue his passion and become a filmmaker. Then like so many talented entrepreneurial minds, he wound up at Harvard Business School....

It’s 2004 and the idea of social networks is all the rage. MySpace is cemented, Friendster is doing well and a number of other networks have all found their niche.Greg Tsenghas an idea: Build a social network that is specifically for teens, and make security the highest priority. The site, known asTagged, takes off but then Facebook happens. While Tagged was doing well for itself — in part of 2007, it was adding more users per day than MySpace — Facebook was quickly becoming the network that everyone wanted to be a part of....