Yes the future is murky and nebulous, but it's definitely going to be based on a chain of technology, which starts with your smartwatch, or wristband (or smart home), which sends contextually up-to-date data back to "intelligence" (in the cloud), which then analyzes this data and reacts to it in real time with contextually aware experiences.
We use beacon technology to enable notifications and provide a proximity-aware experience.
We will be releasing many new features over the upcoming months: a richer proximity-aware experience, a recommendation engine and data visualisation tools.
The second key innovation is the replacement of all the mechanical components between steering wheel and front wheels with electronics, for a much quicker, more responsive, and driver-aware experience.
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Touchscreen displays and the absence of a physical keyboard require a style of interaction on both that is largely driven by context-aware experiences (i.e. applications that know about you or what you want so that you don't have to enter lots of information for the application to work).
Someday you'll be wearing something that will allow you to observe this augmented world at all times, but for the time being, the smartphone does a great job of capturing more situational use cases that fit in with mobile's broader goal of delivering more localized, context-aware experiences.
Those sites were carefully following the work of writers and artists and trying to diffuse it in the respect of its original intent, as they were aware that experience through documentation is totally different than direct experience.
This model posits that our aware emotional experience emerges out of an ongoing flux of a 'core affective state' (i.e. the experience of a pleasant/unpleasant feeling with a varying amount of arousal) as conceptualization (i.e. appraisal, reflection) of this state takes place.
Creating a contextually aware mobile experience is something other startups have attempted before, often in the form of a launcher, like Aviate's launcher that Yahoo acquired in 2014.
In the context of the APT model, practicing 'emotional mindfulness' can be one way of learning how to be aware of, experience and tolerate emotions.
