Category Archives: Internet of Things

MIT Media Lab cofounder Nicholas Negroponte observed at a recent TED event that “I look today at some of the work being done around the Internet of Things and it’s kind of tragically pathetic.” The “tragically pathetic” label has been … Continue reading →

Source: Entrepreneur and Media Lab researcher David Rose talks ‘enchanted objects’ The book on Amazon: Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things

There have been visions of smart, communicating objects even before the global computer network was launched forty-five years ago. As the Internet has grown to link all signs of intelligence (i.e., software) around the world, a number of other terms … Continue reading →

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0RDrSKenGo] Neil Gershenfeld, Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, at the 2014 Solid Conference: Analog telephone calls degraded with distance; digitizing communications allowed errors to be detected and corrected, leading to the Internet. Analog computations degraded with … Continue reading →

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG2dvxSKEGU] Bubblino is a Twitter-monitoring, bubble-blowing Arduino-bot. He watches twitter for a chosen keyword and every time he finds a new mention then he blows bubbles.