The canonical smart city: A pastiche by Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
Sorta sci-fi from Adam.
Consider this a shooting script for one of those concept videos so beloved of the big technology vendors.
Tags: ubicomp
Lamps: a design research collaboration with Google Creative Labs, 2011 – Blog – BERG
Beautiful thoughtful work from the BERGians.
On Open Platforms, Wifi, Home Automation, and Kitty Litter | John Battelle’s Search BlogJohn Battelle’s Search Blog
This echoes Scott Jenson’s call for more open standards when it comes to networked devices. We’ll need it if we want “If This, Then That” for an internet of things.
Was the Internet just an accident? | Scott Jenson
Man, I just love Scott Jenson.
Our brains have collectively gone startup-crazy, seeing the world through stock option colored glasses, assuming that if there is no money, there is clearly no value. This is madness. I’m so desperately worried that the internet will turn out to be a happy accident.
Turning his focus on “the internet of things” he makes the very good point that what we need isn’t one company or one proprietary service; we need an ecosystem of open standards that will enable companies to build services.
We all have to appreciate how we need a deep, open solution to solve this problem. If we don’t understand, demand even, that hardware devices need to be just as discoverable an open as web servers are today, we’ll never see the internet of things come to pass.
The best interface is no interface | Cooper Journal
Interaction dissolving into the environment.
Dough Globe - Your little living world
My last shipment from the Quaterly contained everything I need to get a sourdough starter going (thanks to Alexis Madrigal). I think I might have to get me one of these cute sourdough globes: “It’s like a Tamagotchi, but actually alive.”
Be sure to check out the the blog documenting the design and development.
Connections
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!
Scott Jenson | Exploring the world beyond mobile
Excellent! Scott has his own URL now. If you haven’t read everything he has written so far, start from the start and read every single post.
The Computer for the 21st Century
A classic piece of design fiction written by Mark Weiser 21 years ago.
The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.
A Furniture Manifesto | Roseology
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.
Little Printer | BERG Cloud
This evolution of Tom Taylor’s microprinter looks like it’s going to be absolutely wonderful (and packed full of personality). Watch this space.
Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet by Supermechanical — Kickstarter
This looks truly wonderful: like a hardware version of “if this, then that.”
Twitter-enhanced Dérive « Magical Nihilism
London becomes Everyware.
Ztamp:s - RFID stamps that makes your objects come alive - Violet •• Let All Things Be Connected
Reading through some of the things that peope have made with these RFID tags is making me itchy to hack something tangible.
LIFT Conference || Adam Greenfield (LIFT07) - Google Video
Adam Greenfield encapsulates his ideas from Everyware for the audience at the LIFT conference earlier this year.