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Harvesting energy from earthquakes
Earthquakes are a powerful force of nature, and the majority of all that released energy unfortunately goes towards leaving destruction in it's path. While you can't do much to stop a quake from...
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Collaborative Data Capture: Little Book of "What If?"
The "Little Book of "What If?" is a project first launched at South by Southwest last year by PepsiCo in collaboration with MAYA Design as part of their What If? Unconference, where festival attendees...
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Insurance Device: Snapshot
Progressive Insurance is using a connected device and service called Snapshot to help calculate the rates you should be paying on your monthly car insurance.The provided hardware plugs into your car's...
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Radio 3.0
Radio 3.0 is a DIY device by Paris based designers Christopher Santerre and Uros Petrevsky that enables you to tap and share a favorite song to your social network. Described as an idea to get a...
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GPS-satellite collars: Snow Leopard protection
Panthera is a conversation organization led by Tom McCarthy focused on the world’s largest and most endangered cats: tigers, lions, jaguars and snow leopards. They have recently started several...
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Low-power Internet connectivity software: Thingsquare Mist
Thingsquare is a new company based out of downtown Stockholm started by industry veterans Adam Dunkels, Fredrik Österlind, and Roger Bergdahl.The team's first product Thingsquare Mist is an open-source...
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Smart Social Bike Sharing: SoBi
"Using wireless technology to enhance personal mobility." is one of the taglines for SoBi new a new social bike share system created by entrepreneur Ryan Rzepecki.Although the idea of public bike...
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Wireless Tree Tracking: Invisible Tracck
Invisible Tracck is a wireless device being used in pilot programs to help combat illegal deforestation taking place in the Amazon.Created by Brazilian firm Cargo Tracck, the battery operated devices...
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Power loss sensors: SenseNET
Founded by Mischa Steiner-Jovic, Awesense is a Vancouver based startup looking to deploy it's wireless sensors and data analytics platform to help utilities detect energy theft and other inefficiencies...
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The bicycle barometer is a project by developer Richard Pope that takes daily weather forecast data and the status of the subway lines and outputs a graphic value (bike sign at one end and a tube sign...
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DIY Web-Enabled Car Traffic Counter
Geoffrey Barrows is a researcher and entrepreneur based out of Washington, DC. His company Centeye focuses on computer vision systems and has recently branched out to head some Open Hardware...
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Talking Shoes: Art Copy and Code
Launched at this year's SXSW the Talking Shoes project is one of Google's Art, Copy & Code experiments that is looking at how brands, advertising and technology can work hand in hand in the future...
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Physical Hit Counter: Alerting Infrastructure
Alerting Infrastructure is a 2003 project by artist and professor Jonah Brucker-Cohen that takes the number of visitors to a gallery/organizations web site and translates those hits into physical...
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Oyster Sensor Network
The SenseT (Sensing Tasmania) project is a collaboration between the Tasmanian and Australian government, local universities (UTAS and University of Melbourne’s Institute for a Broadband-Enabled...
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Smart Laundry Sensors: LaundryQb
LaundryQb is a project concept developed by four California Berkeley graduate students (Ross Yeager, Ryan Rho, Hassan Elahi and Zhaochen “JJ” Lui) that wants to provide an inexpensive way for you to...
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NFC tags and 3d Printing
Two emerging technologies blending together? NFC and 3d Printing are finding ways to coverge to create more dynamic objects. Here are a few projects showing the concept in action: Flomio a company...
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Open Source Pollution Monitoring: Pollux
Pollux is an early stage project created by Lucas Fernandez, Bernard Pratz, CKAB, and hackable:Devices that aims at creating a network of lower cost wireless sensors focused on monitoring environmental...
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GPS Bracelet For Aid Workers: Natalia Project
In 2009, human rights activist Natalia Estemirova was kidnapped and later found murdered in Chechnya. In part of honoring her and the incident the Swedish organization Civil Rights Defenders is...
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Wireless Water Quality Sensing: WaterCanary
The Water Canary is an open source, water quality monitor system that wants to provide an alternative to the slow and expensive processes mainly being deployed in field work today. The CEO and founder...
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Distributed Water ATMs: Sarvajal
Sarvajal is a company founded in 2008 by the Piramal Foundation that wants to help solve the issue of getting clean water to rural Indian communities through their distributed water delivery and...
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