Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet by Supermechanical. The Kickstarter is over, but if you missed out on backing us, not to worry.
You can still join the thousands of other awesome Twine owners by pre-ordering on Supermechanical. It's the next best thing to being an original backer! Follow us on Facebook or Twitter. Want to hook up things to the Web? Maybe you want to get a tweet when your laundry's done, or get an email when the basement floods while you're on vacation. ‘Internet of things’ is set to come. An “internet of things”, an idea long considered by computer scientists in which everyday objects have individual online profiles, will come to life this autumn at 20 Oxfam charity shops.
Technology developed by a UK university consortium allows information such as geographical location, stories about previous owners, video clips and tweets to be combined to form a “social network for objects”, Andy Hudson-Smith of University College London told the British Science Festival in Bradford on Wednesday. Mr Hudson-Smith, who leads the Tales of Things research project, said computer scientists had been discussing an “internet of things” for 15 years, but the idea was only now beginning to bear fruit.
The project, funded by a £1.5m grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, labels objects with RFID (radio frequency identification) tags or QR (quick response) codes – the square printed barcodes that are increasingly being taken up in commerce and industry. Project launches survey on IOT scenarios — IOT-I: Internet of Things Initiative. Enabling the Internet of Things.