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Via Salah ALhaj Ahmed, Martin (Marty) Smith, Ivo Nový

Marty Note
Cool "emerging" technologies covered here cover trends across tech and manufacturing:

* Body-adapted Wearable Electronics.
* Nanostructured Carbon Composites.
* Mining Metals from Desalination Brine.
* Grid-scale Electricity Storage.
* Nanowire Lithium-ion Batteries.
* Screenless Display.
* Human Microbiome Therapeutics.
* RNA-based Therapeutics.
* Quantified Self (Predictive Analytics).

* Brain-computer Interfaces.

My favs are RNA-based Therapeutics (since this could help my dad's macular degeneration and Quantified Self (predictive analytics since they will change ecommerce as we've known and practiced it).

Promising "trend tags" here too for http://www.crowdfunde.com.

Via Grant Montgomery, Martin (Marty) Smith

Emergence of Social/Search In 2014
Just as Einstein collapsed space and time into Space/Time 2014 will see the reality of Social/Search. Social/Search is, again much like Einstein's Space/Time, a seamless fabric where one concept contributes to the other in a dance so intimate it is impossible to tease them apart.

The promise of Social/Search has been sitting in the room for a few years. 2014 will see the reality of Social/Search.

Via Martin (Marty) Smith

There are a many aspects of good web design, and whitespace is certainly one of them. Whitespace is the empty space around design elements such as images, text,

Via Martin (Marty) Smith

Why keeping up with web design trends is vital In today’s fast-evolving trends, people’s interests are being influenced briskly by the web, wherein onlin

 

Marty Note
Like #7, use of Neon Colors as accents. Color is so tricky online its use as "accents" is the best idea. Will see if I can find a "neon color accent" example and shsre it, but sounds like a cool trend I've only read about from this Chinese social agency.

Other trends noted include ones we've seen in several of these "what's up for 2014" posts including:

* Simple.

* Flat.
* All in one.

* Responsive.
* scrolling.

Via Martin (Marty) Smith, John van den Brink