Ecosphere Rio

A real-time view of the global discussion on sustainable development. World leaders are about to meet at the United Nations RIO+20 Earth Summit on Sustainable Development to make crucial decisions for the future of our planet. Add your voice to the global discussion. http://cnn-ecosphere.com/

Hausgeräte-Steuerung für das iPhone

Fehlt nur noch die Wäsche-SMS ;-)
InfoControl Plus von Miele: Hausgeräte-Steuerung für iOS im Video | ifun.de/iPhone :: Alles zum iPhone

App-Storelink: http://www.ifun.de/app/426409765

Track what you skate - Nokia Push

News | Nokia PUSH Burton

"Internet of things" form Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling from Innovationsforum on Vimeo.

via Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign – Bruce Sterling

The Internet of European Things

“In a resolution adopted Tuesday, the European Parliament officially endorsed the development of the Internet of Things. This resolution frankly encourages the development of an Internet of Things in the European Union. It even calls on the European IoT Commission to “secure co-financing for the implementation of these technologies” and “continue funding pilot projects.”

Spime Watch: The Internet of European Things | Beyond The Beyond

Mouseless

via Design Fiction: Mouseless | Beyond The Beyond: "Mouseless"

Bruce Sterling - Internet of things

View more Videos of Bruce Sterling:
Bruce Sterling - Professor of Internet Studies and Science Fiction - Videos

Aggressive Quadrotor Maneuvers

Aggressive Quadrotor Maneuvers - DIY Drones

Editions Volumiques

Here are the first pieces of les évolutions dynamiques following research on both volume and interactivity, playfully mixing paper and computation. By allowing interactivity and gameplay in the page (for example with the Duckette project) or between the pages (in The book that turns its own pages, or Labyrinthe), we try to bring new life to paper. We then pushed physical behavior to paper and ink (the book that disapears). There, the paper is no longer only the frame for representation, but at the same time the field of a real physical experience. We also played with the volume and perspective of book and content (paradoxales, Meeting-Zombies). And then, we tried to combine paper with this little computer-object almost of us all carry everywhere: our cell phone (the night of the living dead pixels, (i) pirates).

Videos:
http://www.volumique.com/blog/?p=31

View the projects: editions_volumiques

Twitwee clock

The Twitwee Clock is a modified Cuckoo Clock that wirelessly connects to the internet and constantly checks for new status updates or search results from the Twitter API. New Tweets are displayed on the built-in display in near-realtime accompanied by the charming yet obtrusive call of a mechanical cuckoo poping out of the clock.

Twitwee Clock from Haroon Baig on Vimeo.

From a technical point of view the clock consists of a touch screen display with a controller board and a wifi dongle, that is distributed as an open source/ open hardware plattform with a linux operating system by Chumby Industries. On the device there is a Flash Lite Player installed, a flash runtime for mobile devices from Adobe. A custom built widget for the Twitwee Clock connects to the Twitter API to receive new tweets. The mechanic of the cuckoo is controlled by the Arduino Board.

haroon baig | projects | twitwee clock

Parrot AR.Drone for iPhone

Parrot AR.Drone - Quadrotor helicopter with wifi and 2 cameras - AR.Drone games for iPhone and iPod touch

Are you ready for the Internet of Things?

"Lots of things going on in the Internet of Things world lately. See for example, as pointed out by Marc the other day, Casagras, which stands for Coordination And Support Action for Global RFID-related Activities and Standardisation, has just issued its final report on RFID and the inclusive model for the Internet of Things."

Read more: Pasta & Vinegar - Are you ready for the Internet of Things? at lift Lab

Botanicalls - The Plants Have Your Number

Botanicalls Kits let plants reach out for human help! They offer a connection to your leafy pal via online Twitter status updates to your mobile phone. When your plant needs water, it will post to let you know, and send its thanks when you show it love.

Read more on: Botanicalls

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And here is a plant that twetts: http://twitter.com/pothos

Map/Territory Shows Augmented Reality of the Future

Map/Territory, by designer Timo Arnall, is a concept video of what it might be like to interact with a map embedded in real life - not just on a phone or on a computer screen. Imagine a world where a flick of the wrist draws up all the information you need in real time and space. Check out the 30-second clip below:

Map/Territory from timo on Vimeo.

via Map/Territory Shows Augmented Reality of the Future | FlowingData

2 x Lego

1. Not to scale - Ubik

Not To Scale - Ubik ~ Voxel from ventilate.ca on Vimeo.

2. Lego Dispatch Work in Berlin

Jan Vormann did his Dispatchwork again, this time, he fills up mostly holes that remained from the World War II in Berlin with Lego bricks. He did it before in Bocchignano, Italy, a village close to Rome.

(more pictures: Damn Cool Pics: Lego Dispatch Work in Berlin)

Real life objects

Swinxs, the incredible new game console!

Discover a whole new world with SWINXS together with your friends and family. Swinxs is a high-tech games console, sustainably designed for active games you can play inside or outdoors. The unique XS-wristband gives you access to a new world to play games, listen to music, experience exciting adventures and make fantasies reality. Swinxs is never boring! Connect your Swinxs to your computer and on your own Swinxs page you can, as well as many other things, keep track of your scores and download new games.

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Sniff
A game for all, based on the Memory principle
Sniff is a game that is equally well suited for sighted and non-sighted children. The basic idea involves a cuddly toy, Sniff, which contains an RFID (radio-frequency identification) reader.

http://www2.norway.or.jp/NR/rdonlyres/7F09692D-6927-4B9E-8879-88ED0EFFBCB3/91022/Sniff400.jpg

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Do you poken?

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WineM, a smart wine rack

WineM is an information tracking system that makes all wine information always accessible and updatable. It knows what wine is in the rack, and where it is, without requiring you to consult paper logs or spreadsheets. A custom walnut radio frequency tag uniquely identifies each bottle, while readers in every cell locate it.

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The internet of things - Tikitag Touchatech
The technology that tikitag takes advantage of to establish this connection is Near Field Communications Technology (NFC) - an evolution of RFID that connects electronic devices over short distances. The market for NFC is expected to grow significantly in the coming years. Market consultancy Strategy Analytics projects that by 2012 around 250 million NFC-enabled phones will be sold worldwide. (read more)

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Brio Networkers

Who’s living behind the screens? BRIO Network is an original world of rail play that features the imaginary creatures who live inside your computer. They drive super-cool vehicles around the tracks. They can listen to their messages and interact in fun, new ways. Though the networkers are inspired by the computer world, you do not need a computer to play with them.

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An of course
- Mirror: A mirror that makes your Objects come alive
- nabaztag: A Rabbit that keeps you in touch with everything
- ztamp:s - Stamps that make your Objects come alive
by www.violet.net


(via http://tangiblix.blogspot.com/)

Physical pixels - Industrial design is the new interface design

Read full-article: Physical pixels: design for the not so near future - Core77

DO YOU POKEN ?

In the real world...
With your poken you instantly connect with new friends across online social networks when and where you meet them.

At any computer with web access...
The poken hand pulls out of the body, revealing a USB connector. Insert the USB connector into any computer with web access to easily upload your new contacts to the Poken web database.

On doyoupoken.com...
You choose which of your social network profiles you would like to share with people when you meet them in the real world.
A small logo of each social network you choose is displayed as a link on your « Poken Card ,» which shows only your most basic information. Your contacts can view your Poken Card on doyoupoken.com, but, if they want to see more, they only have to click the logo to see your profile on the social networking site you’ve chosen to share.
On the Poken site you and your friends can view your contacts alphabetically, or chronologically in your "social timeline." You can also send messages, group contacts with a label, write notes for yourself about each contact, and so much more.

Welcome to Poken: "DO YOU POKEN ?"

superWise Technologies AG

Für intensive Suche in Texten, für Musik- und Spracherkennung, für Objektsuche in Fotos und Videos.

Visual search in images:3sat Neues - 12.10.2008: superWise Technologies AG

(via "Neues" on ZDFinfo)

Look at: Microsofts Search, Google Sets, Koabasearch...

Semapedia.org: Hyperlink your world

Our goal is to connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the right information from the internet to the relevant place in physical space.

Semapedia.org: index