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Running on a combination of the Android and currently a Digilent chipKIT Max32 microcontroller (Arduino-compatible) comes OpenXC a collaboration between Ford Motors and Bug Labs that seeks to bring an API to your car. The platform is a...

The Architectural League of New York has just released their 8th pamphlet in their ongoing Situated Technologies series. This latest pamphlet is written by the artist and designer Christian Nold and by the founder of the Internet of Things...

About the Book: Many of the initial developments towards the Internet of Things have focused on the combination of Auto-ID and networked infrastructures in business-to-business logistics and product lifecycle applications. However, the Internet of...

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...

Color Forecast is an app and website developed by fashion brand Pimkie that shows you which colors are trending in Europe's fashion capitals in real-time. Video cameras were placed strategically in high fashion/traffic areas in Paris, Milan, and Antwerp and then fed back into...

"50 Billion Connected Devices by 2020, How Many Robots?". That is one of the taglines from the new social network for robots MyRobots.com. The project is a subsidiary of RobotShop, is powered by IoT open-source platform Thingspeak, and aims to "connect all robots and...

Details are emerging on the latest Internet facing public infrastructure being compromised. A system in Springfield, Illinois is reporting issues with a city water control system and a pump being destroyed last week through their SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System) system which...

The European Commission (EC) issued a press release on April 12th wanting to know "what framework is needed to unleash the potential economic and societal benefits of the IoT, whilst ensuring an adequate level of control of the devices gathering, processing and storing information."The...

Eye-Fi, the makers of the Wi-Fi enabled SD cards that go into your camera for instant uploading to the web have just closed a $20 million Series D round of funding with NTT DOCOMO, Shasta Ventures, Opus Capital and TransLink Capital. ...

The fashion brand C&A in Brazil has launched a new 'Fashion Like' campaign for Mother's Day this year that integrates their flagship store in São Paulo to their Facebook page via digital hangers displaying a real-time like counter for each piece of clothing.Although my current...

Robb Godshaw an Engineer at Syyn Labs has created a haptic weather forecasting device called the Cryoscope that allows you to actually feel what tomorrow's weather forecast will be like today. ...

Artist David Bowen continues his explorations into a networked world (See: tele-present water) with his latest project Fly Tweet that enables a swarm of common houseflies to speak via Twitter.The flies live inside an acrylic sphere containing a standard computer keyboard and as they...

iMAL (interactive Media Art Laboratory) in Brussels just completed "Generator.x 3.0 :from code to atoms" one of their openLAB workshops that focused on "how software processes can be combined with digital fabrication to produce physical objects that are the result of dynamic software systems...

The project was created by Timo Arnall, Einar Sneve Martinussen from AHO and Jack Schulze from BERG and is part of the larger research initiative Touch that investigates Near Field Communication and develops applications and services that enable people to interact with everyday objects...

Product Description The book's aim is to define the Internet of Things (IoT) in a global view, present the research agenda for Internet of Things technologies by addressing the new technological developments and providing...

Updated annually since 1995 the annual Hype Cycle graphic created by Gartner tracks their perspective on specific technologies and their progress through a life-cycle from "technology trigger" to "plateau of productivity".  This year the Internet of Things...

A few articles have been popping up in investment journals speculating to which companies are likely to reap the benefits with the creation of an Internet of Things. Motley Fool is...

Although static in its display the Plunge Project by artist Michael Pinsky is a colorful example of using civic space and data to engage the public in a conversation by showing Londoners what their city and landmarks will look like when covered by the...

Mark Rolston - Frog's Chief Creative Officer discusses physical computing with Chris Albrecht at GigaOm’s RoadMap conference. 16 minute talk is embedded below for your viewing pleasure where Mark discusses: - Bruce Sterling's Shaping Things ...

Ugle is a networked wooden owl designed by Oslo based design-studio Voy that acts as a "decorative personal message system".Controlled over the internet via your iPhone, Ugle lets you send color coded messages remotely to friends and family at your home. When you select...

Mocana secures the “Internet of Things” - the 20 billion non-PC devices that are increasingly connecting to networks across every sector of our economy including Smartphones, Datacom, Smartgrid, Federal, Consumer and Medical. These devices already outnumber workstations on the Internet...

Forbes recently featured an article highlighting the construction of NASA's new 'Sustainability Base' a new facility at the Ames Research Center that will feature over 5,000 sensors in the new 2-story building expected to be completed the first quarter of...

Out of Tokyo comes the NetLED lighting system. Using Wi-Fi enabled tubes and power consumption technology that allows fine tuned lighting control (8 dimming levels) they report a possible reduction of power consumption by up to 90% from existing solutions....

Instaprint is a networked photobooth designed by Brookly based design firm Breakfast that hunts within Instagrams service looking for specific hastags or locations. If it finds a public photo that matches the parameters that you have set on the backend it will automatically take...

In the Sunday review edition of the NYTimes Steve Lohr published a piece titled "The Internet Gets Physical" "the protean Internet technologies of computing and communications are rapidly spreading beyond the lucrative consumer bailiwick....