Uber’s colorful solution to help riders and drivers spot each other
Uber expects to have a record night for its crowdsourced taxi service this New Year’s Eve, and in the run-up to the holiday the company has been testing a usability improvement that could make it...
View ArticleWi-Fi Alliance releases HaLow standard for connecting the Internet of Things
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced a new variety of its communication protocol, designed for long range and low power. 802.11ah, a.k.a. Wi-Fi HaLow, takes aim at the myriad connected devices of the...
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The Emotional Music of Twitter: Social Vibes
Twitter is named for bird song — so what would happen if you turned tweets into music? That’s the question explored by Social Vibes, a musical installation that analyzes real-time social media content...
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Conductive Ink Tattoos: Tech Tats
Wearables may be a hot trend, perhaps even fashionable, but it’s hard for any gadget to match the cool factor of a tattoo. Perhaps that’s why the digital creatives at Chaotic Moon invented Tech Tats —...
View ArticleU.K.’s PETRAS research hub will explore technical, ethical, social...
Earlier this month, the U.K. government announced a new research initiative that brings together nine universities to study various aspects of the Internet of Things. The PETRAS (Privacy, Ethics,...
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Wi-Fi Survival Rock: Keepalive
Keepalive, a digital installation in the countryside near Neuenkirchen, Germany, could easily be mistaken for a strangely charred but otherwise ordinary boulder. But in an unusual mashup of neolithic...
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DIY Smart Mirrors
The smart bathroom mirror is a signature detail of futuristic movies and advertisements. Want some visual shorthand for how far technology has come? Show your protagonist brushing her teeth, while over...
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Storing Data in a Living Plant
Long before human beings invented computers, nature found a way to store incredible amounts of data in a tiny package: DNA. Now, scientists are figuring out how to do the same trick — creating...
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Embedded Ideologies: Automato's "Politics of Power"
We tend to think of technological devices as neutral tools, available for humans to use in support of whatever value systems we subscribe to. But, as demonstrated by the recent debate over Apple’s...
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Nest releases open-source version of Thread protocol
Thread is one of the many attempts to create a one-protocol-fits-all networking standard for the Internet of Things by building a broad coalition of adopter companies across the IoT industry. Earlier...
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