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Category Archives: sensors
Four short links: 20 Mar 2009
Space, Space, Micromanufacturing, and Sensors: Teens Capture Images of Space With £56 Camera and Balloon (Telegraph) — DIY/MAKE culture at its best, four 18-19 year old Spanish students (with guidance of a teacher) rigged a balloon to carry a camera over 100,000 feet (that’s twelve trillion and seven Canadian meters) above the earth, take pictures, and return to the ground…. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, flickr, make, sensors
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Four short links: 16 Mar 2009
Non-interop earphones with DRM, HVAC swarms, paperprints, and product constipation at GOOG: Apple iPod Shuffle (3rd gen) — “Surprise: the only third-party headphones that will work are ones that haven’t even entered manufacturing yet, because they’ll need to contain yet another new Apple authentication chip, which will add to their price.” It’s interesting to see Apple prioritising the different interactions… Continue reading
Posted in Apple, DRM, Google, Uncategorized, collectiveintelligence, security, sensors
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Radar Roundup: Sensors
In his “Web Meets World” talk at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York last September, Tim O’Reilly described where he saw the web heading. “The next stage of Web 2.0 is going to be driven by sensors,” he said. “We are moving out of the world in which people typing on keyboards are going to be driving collective intelligence applications.” Like all transitions, the incorporation of data from the physical web onto existing platforms is gradual. We are just beginning to see applications surface and the best is still ahead of us. Here are a few observations, predictions and implementations of this emerging trend. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, amee, geo, physicalweb, powermeter, psychogeography, senseablecity, sensors, webmeetsworld
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The Social Nervous System Has More Than One Sense
Radar’s Joshua Michele-Ross published a fabulous piece on Forbes entitled The Rise of the Social Nervous System. His premise: “…communication is the foundation of society, business and government. When you scale up communications, you change the world….As ever more people get connected, we see an acceleration in the way the Internet is used to coordinate action and render services from human input. We are witnessing the rise of a social nervous system.” Josh focuses on now familiar examples: the Mumbai terrorist attacks as reported real-time on twitter, the Obama campaign (and in particular, the Houdini project), and Google Flu Trends. But Josh weaves them into a powerful conclusion. Continue reading
Posted in Twitter, Uncategorized, Web2.0, sensors
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New Tech Mixes Book Experience with Sensors
A new form of hybrid book is coming on the market — and the inventor consults with Apple. From the Guardian UK: Lyndsay Williams — who has already developed… Continue reading
Posted in Devices, Publishing News, Read20, Uncategorized, digitalbooks, digitalcontent, ebooks, mobile, proximity, sensors
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