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The Ambient Furniture project lead by MIT Media Lab's Tangible Media group Hiroshi Ishii, David Rose, and Shaun Salzberg consists of 6 prototype furniture concepts that mix "apps with the IKEA catalog" to explore ideas on peripheral awareness, incidental gestures, pre-attentive processing, and eavesdropping...

With an opening question asking "What if our devices kept talking back to us after we disposed of them?" MIT's Senseable City Labs continues to expand on their Trash|Track project that focuses on what happens to our devices and their materials once they are...

At over 1.8 billion units and more than $1 trillion in revenue today, the intelligent systems market will double in units and revenue by 2015 The market for intelligent systems--those enabled with high-performance microprocessors, connectivity,...

From their website: "We bridge the gap between the virtual world and the real worldOur purpose is to remove all the hurdles involved with connecting DIY projects to the web. This goal has been out of reach for...

ioBridge, Inc. is pleased to announce that Zodiac Pool Systems, Inc. selected ioBridge to provide Internet connectivity technology and cloud services for its new iAquaLink™ intelligent pool and spa control product. iAquaLink allows pool owners to control their pool from their smartphones using native...

Millennial Net develops wireless sensor networking software, systems, and services that enable OEMs and systems integrators to quickly and cost-effectively implement wireless sensor networks. These networks enable the remote monitoring and management of critical devices while providing data to enable more informed decision-making, better...

The Near Field Communication Forum was formed to advance the use of Near Field Communication technology by developing specifications, ensuring interoperability among devices and services, and educating the market about NFC technology. Formed in 2004, the Forum now has 140 members. Manufacturers, applications developers,...

From their site: "Small Design Firm specializes in the design and implementation of interactive, dynamic graphical applications. In making information accessible to people, it is necessary for designers to rethink current design paradigms. The computer screen is not...

MIT Research lab: Smart Cities Smart Cities: VisionThe Smart Cities Group pursues sustainability, livability, and social equity through technological and design innovation.We take the particular perspective that cities are systems of systems, and that there are emerging opportunities...

From their website: What is the Tangible Media Group? The Tangible Media Group, led by Professor Hiroshi Ishii, explores the Tangible Bits vision to seamlessly couple the dual worlds...

Things That Think vision from their site: The goal of the Things That Think Consortium is to invent the future of digitally augmented objects and environments. We bring a unique, boundary-breaking perspective to research,...

The Chameleon is a web enabled inhaler targeted at helping children to better manage their Asthma. According to the project organizers Asthma is the most common childhood disease in the US resulting in 100 million missed school days and 18 million annual emergency room...