Your Plant is Texting You: Please Add Water. Twine, A Tiny Gizmo That Holds The Internet's Future. "In the future, your house will send you a text message to warn you that your basement is flooding.
" Sounds like the kind of hooey you only hear in those fantastical "future of…" videos, doesn’t it? Not anymore. Two MIT Media Lab graduates have created a "2.5-inch chunk of the future" called Twine that does exactly that, and more, and is available right now. Well, not quite: It will be available in early 2012, thanks to its wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. And the best part about it, the part that surely made that fundraising surge to over $170,000? Here’s the basic idea behind Twine: Software and physical stuff should be friends. Twine is a small slab of gray plastic that hides that PhD’s worth of engineering magic--a bunch of internal and external sensors and a Wi-Fi hub--"the simplest possible way to get the objects in your life texting, tweeting or emailing," in Carr and Kestner’s words.
Interview: Twine - The Internet of Things for Regular People? Tiny Twine Box Makes Hardware Hacking as Easy as Web Browsing. Tiny and cute: You'll be allowed to leave your Twine anywhere in the house Twine is a box that lets you create smart “playlists” for real life.
The 2.5-inch square slab contains various sensors along with Wi-Fi, runs for months on a pair of AA batteries, and can also be powered by USB. The Twine ships with two on-board sensors: an accelerometer and a temperature sensor. Also available will be a moisture sensor and a magnetic switch. So what do you do with it? Configuring the Twine is as easy as making a smart playlist in iTunes A breakout board will also be made available that will let you hook up any other sensors you like, without soldering (or in the U.S, soddering). It’s a tweaker’s dream, letting you pepper the house with sensors to let you know what’s going on, or — in theory — automate everything.
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. Twine is the simplest possible way to get the objects in your life texting, tweeting or emailing. Twine lets you create Internet-connected systems and objects anywhere you have WiFi. Insert Coin: Twine connects your whole world to the internet. In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production.
If you'd like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with "Insert Coin" as the subject line. Wouldn't it be great if your laundry emailed you when it had finished? You got a tweet every time the room got too cold, or your basement sent you a text if it began to flood? "Easy," says the Arduino expert in the peanut gallery, but what about those with neither the time nor inclination to solder and program it from scratch? Fortunately, the gentlemen who founded Supermechanical feel our pain and have just the tonic for our maladies -- head on past the break to find out more. Twine is a 2.5-inch square box with a WiFi module, thermometer and accelerometer -- stick in two AAA batteries and it should last for "months.
" Currently the project has $15,000 of its $35,000 goal, which if reached, will enable Supermechanical to buy tooling and materials to begin mass production. Men’s Accessories. Cool New Gadgets, hi tech gizmos, Weird and unique gifts, Latest Technology, Buy Online Gadgets shop.