Some interesting thoughts that follow on nicely from Scott Jenson’s ideas around just-in-time interactions:
What if the technology was actually already in the room when we got there? Maybe that’s the kind of Internet-of-things that will be more sustainable and will win long-term.
Scott gives us an excellent State Of The Web address, looking at how the web can be central to the coming age of ubiquitous computing. He rightly skips through the imitation of native apps and gets down to the potential of just-in-time interactions.
A state of the connected union address, with soundbites from smart people in the world of ubicomp, internet of things, everyware, or whatever it is we’re calling it now.
Beautiful thoughtful work from the BERGians.
Interaction dissolving into the environment.
This is quite an astounding piece of writing. Robert Lucky imagines the internet of things mashed up with online social networking …but this was published in 1999!
Taking apps out of phones and embedding them in the world around us …there’s a lot of crossover with what Scott Jenson has been writing about here. Good stuff.
One of the coolest things I saw when I was at PaperCamp was Tom’s microprinter:
…an experiment in physical activity streams and notification, using a repurposed receipt printer connected to the web.
Now there’s a wiki where people—like Roo Reynolds—can come together and share their experiments in microprinting:
Hackers across the country are buying up old old receipt printers and imaginatively repurposing them into something new.
It’s such a great little step on the way to a Web of Things. Here’s another such step, from Fluid Interfaces, built for less than $350 using a webcam, a 3M projector, a mirror and a mobile phone:
Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they’re done.
Sounds like a way of levelling up in the game of being Matt Jones:
He sees mobile as something of a super power device and described something he calls “bionic noticing” - obsessively recording curious things he sees around him, driven by this multi-capable device in his pocket.
London becomes Everyware.
Reading through some of the things that peope have made with these RFID tags is making me itchy to hack something tangible.
If, like me, you were going cold turkey on Mobile Scrobbler after updating your jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch, you can stop sweating now. The official Last.fm app is really, really nice ...and it's free.
The Google Chart API can produce QR codes. Neato!
Adam Greenfield encapsulates his ideas from Everyware for the audience at the LIFT conference earlier this year.
Adam Greenfield talks about his new book, Everyware: The Dawning of Ubiquitous Computing.