Blog: You can help build an open air quality sensor network. How The "Internet Of Things" Is Turning Cities Into Living Organisms. And NFC create world’s first taxi booking. NFC makes booking a taxi as simple as a touch TAIWAN – Using nothing but a simple touch, NFC enables you to pair accessories to your phone, send contact information or photos to other phones and to check-in to places using location-based services.
NFC at the Museum of London. MiniME: Personalised Medical Device of the Future. NutriSmart. Pling Plong. Silje Softing’s project Pling Plong from last year’s Touch course is a soft pillow that plays back audiobooks based on the physical objects or books that are placed on it.
Silje writes: “Pling Plong is a media player for stories and sounds, placed inside a pillow. Feral Robotic Dogs. Design + research. Natural Fuse (project site: naturalfuse.org) "Natural fuse" is a micro-scale carbon dioxide overload protection framework that works locally and globally, harnessing the carbon-sinking capabilities of plants.
Generating electricity to power the electronic products that populate our lives has consequences on the amount of carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere, which in turn has detrimental environmental effects. The carbon footprint of the power used to run these devices can be offset by the natural carbon-capturing processes that occur as plants absorb carbon dioxide and grow. "Natural Fuse" units take advantage of this phenomena. They are now distributed in households in London, New York and San Sebastian. Supermechanical : objects that connect us. Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet - Internet of Things Project.
Twine is a a new way to connect your things to the internet.
A project created by two MIT Media lab graduates (David Carr and John Kestner) and currently seeking funding on Kickstarter (Looking for $35,000 and ending on Jan 3rd 2012) the 2.5" object provides WiFi connectivity, internal and external sensors, and two AAA batteries that keep it running.Where Twine really starts to shine is in its service backend where you can control and set up triggers to activate a palette of available conditions and actions (ala like sending out Text messages, Twitter posts, email, or even to Configure HTTP requests authorized based on the objects sensor activity and the rules and conditions you set.An example of this is having your Twine text message you when your laundry is finished, or alerting you by email if moisture is detected on your basement floor. The number of applications you can imagine with this device and the service is endless Available sensors include:
Immaterials: By Touch project - Internet of Things Project. The project was created by Timo Arnall, Einar Sneve Martinussen from AHO and Jack Schulze from BERG and is part of the larger research initiative Touch that investigates Near Field Communication and develops applications and services that enable people to interact with everyday objects and situations through their mobile devices.
The Immaterials project itself is so far broken down into two segments, The first being their RFID project and the second being Wifi. Both of which focus on visualizing the invisible technologies surrounding us in the built environment. IT hits the highway: Big rigs go high tech. J.B.
Scratch Mat - TheFunTheory.com - Rolighetsteorin.se. Singing Rubbish Bins Say Thanks When Litter Is Dumped Inside. By Rhiannon Mills, Sky News reporter A new weapon has been developed in the war on Britain's litter - talking rubbish bins.
The specially designed bins will be dotted around central London and Liverpool from October. As well as saying "thank you" when someone dumps in their rubbish, they can also sing opera and Abba, give a round of applause and sometimes even burp. Keep Britain Tidy is running the campaign along with arts organisation Sing London. Sing London's director, Colette Hiller, told Sky News: "Its ambition is to actually make people care about the place where they live and we want to do that by using fun as a way to bring the best out in people. " Interactive bins have already had success in parts of Europe. In Sweden a talking bin collected three times more rubbish than a normal one nearby. With more than 30 million tons of litter dropped on Britain's streets each year it is hoped these bins could have the same success here. Archive » Good Night Lamp. Asthma inhaler tracking.
Bottle Bank Arcade - TheFunTheory.com - Rolighetsteorin.se. ReaDIYmate - the People's Republic of Interactive Things. GreenGoose - Play Real Life. Vitality-GlowCaps. Touchatag. BigBelly Solar: Eliminating the Waste in Waste Collection. Lockitron.
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