Public Face Detection: Chicago Faces
'Chicago Faces' is an installation by developer and artist Daniel Jay Bertner that investigates the "blurry legal boundaries to non consensual photography and distribution" that current technologies...
View ArticleInternet of Things OS: RIOT
Leveraging the output of a 2008 research project called FeuerWhere, dedicated to monitoring the location, safety, and environmental parameters for the Berlin fire rescue brigades while on emergency...
View ArticleSmart Ruler: Frog Design
frog's "Connected\Projected" team has been producing a series of prototypes taking simple tools from around your home and bringing them into the connected age, all under the umbrella of exploring the...
View ArticleReal World Minecraft Lighting
Giving us a small glimpse into the connected device mashup explosion headed our way, Jim Rutherford and his 10 year old son decided to spend a weekend building a project enabling the day/night clock...
View ArticleStocks, Twitter, Uranium: Jessica Lee's Objective Devices
As part of Jessica Lee's Art Center's Media Design Practices/Lab program final thesis project she asks us "What do stocks, fortune cookies, Twitter, and uranium have in common?Going by the title...
View ArticleMobile Water Quality Sensing: MoboSens
Mobosens is a project led by Dr. Logan Liu and a team of engineers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign focused on giving anyone with a smartphone the ability to measure and detect...
View ArticleConference Analytics: Data Sensing Lab
The Data Sensing Lab is a project sponsored by O'Reilly Media with the tagline "Hardware hacking for data scientists". By deploying custom wireless hardware at tech conferences like Strata and Google...
View ArticleConnected Clocks & Ping Pong: The Incredible Machine
The Incredible Machine is a Rotterdam based design agency focusing on connected products. Led by Marcel Schouwenaar, Aernout Peeters, and Harm van Beek the trio has already produced some innovative...
View ArticleAugmented Interfaces: MIT's Smarter Objects
The Smarter Objects system is a project by Valentin Heun, Shunichi Kasahara, and Pattie Maes out of MIT's Media Lab Fluid Interfaces group that seamlessly combines simple connected objects with virtual...
View ArticleTactile Communication Bracelet: TACTILU
TACTILU is a project that uses a combination of Bluetooth, your smartphone, and a unique sensor and actuator system to remotely transmit touch between two people.Developed for the ITAKA Foundation...
View ArticleRemote Hand Pump Monitoring: WellDone's MoMo
WellDone is a non-profit focused on working with communities to provide them with clean water and generate awareness of water quality and access issues around the world.After seeing research studies...
View ArticleSmart Wallets
Created out of the MIT Information Ecology group in 2010 is a set of prototype "Proverbial Wallets" designed to give a "tangible interface for financial awareness" and a way to close the gap that has...
View ArticleWireless Vaccine Monitoring: ColdTrace
ColdTrace is a project developed by the nonprofit technology company Nexleaf Analytics that uses wireless temperature sensors, repurposed cell phones, and a notification system to track temperatures of...
View ArticleWireless Remote Chess
With references to the original Mechanical Turk, Youtube user FunGowRightNow12 and his chess playing partner have documented how they have created a remote chess board using an Arduino powered magnet...
View ArticleRemote Audio Habitat Monitoring: ARBIMON
ARBIMON (Automated Remote Biodiversity Monitoring Network) is a project developed out of the University of Puerto Rico by Carlos Corrada-Bravo, Mitchell Aide and their team that uses off-the-shelf...
View ArticleSmart Event Clock
The 'Event Clock' is a project created by Victor Johansson (@victordons) as part of his industrial design thesis 'Connected Interactions' that aims to move some of our digital lives and scheduling away...
View ArticleSmart Luggage: Bag2Go
'Bag2Go', is a prototype product created in a collaboration between Airbus, T-Mobile and German luggage maker Rimowa that wants to help you ease some of the typical luggage burdens you might face on...
View ArticleIntelligent Packaging: ThinFilm
Thinfilm is an Oslo based company looking to use printed electronic techniques to add intelligence to objects that have not been possible (or cost prohibitive) to connect in the past using traditional...
View ArticleTalking Infrastructure: Hello Lamp Post
Hello Lamp Post is a project developed as a collaboration between Tom Armitage, Gyorgyi Galik and PAN Studios for the Bristol Playable City contest that ran in the UK city from October to December last...
View ArticleCrowdsourced Weather: PressureNet
PressureNET is a project by Canadian company Cumulonimbus that uses a smartphones built-in barometric sensor (currently offered in several Android phones and used mainly to improve location data) in...
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