ICT & Technology
Here, you’ll find interesting ideas that will enable you to develop your own story about Stockholm - The Capital of Scandinavia.
Kista, Stockholm, is serving as a magnet for cleantech start-ups and a model for environmental and energy conscious decision makers and politicians aiming to be among the economic winners as the market grows.
Swedish and international venture capitalists with green agendas are becoming increasingly interested in energy saving technologies. Cleantech start-ups are now among the hottest investment objects. Kista Science City, the growing ICT innovation cluster in Stockholm, is now emerging also as a significant cleantech hub attracting venture capitalists.
The digital video game Backseat Playground (BSP) turns churches, bridges and other sights along the road into a fantasy land filled with virtual creatures and things.
Recently, the Interactive Instiute in Kista Science City outside Stockholm, presented a new prototype, with sound based interfaces, also with focus on the journey as its main resource.
Stockholm-based Interactive Institute’s research team has explored how design can encourage physical activity with children – a computer game in the shape of a full-size, climbing wall.
A commercialized version of the first prototype is now adjusted for export to New York. The climbers will experience the feeling of being “hunted” like wild animals in a game focusing on the needs of the endangered spieces.
Are you upset? Surprised? In love? All that can be expressed by an ordinary smiley. But as the digital communication becomes increasingly intense the need for nuances also increases.
eMoto, a mobile messaging system, translates emotions expressed through gestures into colours and patterns. At the mobile display you design the message and the background that corresponds with your feeling. The receiver reacts – the emotion is communicated.
Cool Stockholm innovation inspires household energy savings. The Interactive Institute’s design researchers have explored how design can encourage people to use less energy in their homes. The Flower Lamp was one of the “coolest inventions” that TIME Magazine nominated in 2006.
Already at the forefront of technological development in computer gaming, creative Swedish developers now prove that gaming may also be the most vibrant source of culture export for the 21st century.
Computer games are no longer just about technology. The impact of storytelling and other cultural factors are growing.
From 2004 to 2007, the Empowered Living project will make it easier for people with cognitive disabilities, both young and old, to live a more independent life. The project will test the latest working methods, technological solutions, including different assistive devices and communication solutions. The aim is to speed up the development of technical assistive devices, which can increase the quality of life for both the users and their relatives.
The Arena for Digital Services, ADTS, is a meeting point for users and manufacturers of digital services. The Stockholm County Council and the City of Stockholm inspired the project. The aim is to make the Stockholm region known as a world-leading arena for digital broadband services to households and companies and the public services sector – today already some 23% of those target users are linked to digital broadband services.
85 percent of all Swedes access 3G services. Foreign ICT innovative companies gather in Stockholm/Kista Wireless Valley.
David Svensson, an innovative young Ericsson phone engineer, got a world patent.
