- A relatively new site called Wanelo combines the features of a social media site and an e-commerce site by permitting users to “save” products that they are interested in, and showing them to their online friends. The site now claims a 50 percent saturation rate among college-age women.
- In a dramatic and tragic case in Georgia in which a young boy was left to die in a hot car, police have revealed that both his parents searched, before the death, on their mobile devices for information about child deaths in the heat. This kind of digital evidence is becoming extremely common in cases of all sorts.
- The line between prosthetic devices and wearable technology is blurring, as devices such as Google Glass can give users an augmented sense of sight, and other senses can be augmented as well.
