A Japanese Phone Lets You Pay With Your Eyes

The latest mobile payment technology from Japan goes beyond just fingerprint recognition: the Arrows MX F-04G phone from Japanese company NTT Docomo allows users to unlock their phones and pay for items using their eyes. The new phone comes with a built-in iris-recognition feature that can identify its owner’s unique iris patterns, making it significantly more secure than the Face Unlock feature previously released by …

The Lily Drone Can Never Fall

Imagine sitting on your surfboard waiting for the next set to roll in as a drones floats nearby. As the first wave approaches, you toss the drone into the air and start paddling. Now you’re up on the wave and the drone is carefully capturing you from the side as you carve up the face, or maybe it’s filming you from the front while you …

Enter IBM Watson + PSFK’s Data Contest

If you could gain access to the entirety of the world’s data, digest it and use it to create something to improve the lives of other people—what would you do? PSFK and IBM Watson have teamed up to pose this very question for The Good Data Contest, which hopes to “spark a conversation around what cognitive computing will mean for our future.” Until 22 May …