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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...

In case you missed out, April 9th was Global Internet of Things day an event that Rob van Kranenburg started last year focused on speading the ideas, vision and policies of an open and global IoT. We were kindly asked to team up with...

Quadrigram is a visual programming environment tool (currently in private beta) that is a solution for any individual or organization that works intensively with information. It provides tools to formulate and answer questions with a wide variety of...

The SXSW Interactive festival took place earlier this month in Austin and was host to a series of speaker panels and presentations having connections to the IoT. The organizers have provided audio clips for many of the sessions and we thought we would point...

Red Tomato Pizza in Dubai has sent out a new fridge magnet to their loyal long term customers that gives them the ability to order their favorite pie by simply tapping once on the "push for hunger" button.Once the magnet is pressed customers receive...

Jeff Hoefs a NYC based interaction designer and new media artist has released a new protoptyping tool called Breakout, the project grew out of "a need for a simple platform to enable designers to prototype functional web-based interfaces to the physical world". It...

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. ...

On February 9th in celebration of their new Internet of Things Centre the Swedish Institute of Computer Science held an IoT day that featured talks by a wide range of leading thinkers in the field including Adam Dunkels and Mike Kuniavsky among others. ...

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...

Timo Arnall of BERGLondon put together this short film using found machine-vision footage that takes a deeper look into the studio's "Robot-Readable World" speculations and asks "As robots begin to inhabit the world alongside us, how do they see and gather meaning from our...

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has just released a report prepared by Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought that looks at the future of Machine-to-Machine communication (M2M) and how governments around the world can approach the topic and its implications. ...

Spontaneous Interventions: design actions for the common good Organized by the Institute for Urban Design comes the exhibition details and call for projects for the U.S. Pavilion at this years International Venice Architecture Biennale that will take place...

Lance Weiler a "story architect of film, tv and games - an all around culture hacker" has an article out in Film Maker Magazine that discusses using elements of an Internet of Things in order to create the next generation...

In this quarter's issue of IEEE Pervasive Computing they are commemorating the 20th anniversary of Mark Weiser’s seminal article, “The Computer for the 21st Century,” first published in Scientific American in September 1991. Papers in the issue include:...

The UK's Technology Strategy Board has just released the list of 10 winners for their convergence competition. The Ten British companies will receive up to £50,000 each for preparatory studies to "better understand how to move towards an...

A new FDA approved diabetes meter that instantly transmits a patient's readings to a private online database through a wireless cell connection is making the rounds at CES. The device made by Telcare wirelessly transmits the data using...

Robert Faludi bring us details of the final projects presented for his Fall Sensitive Buildings class at Tisch ITP in New York City. Course Description: This is a class is about a...

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...

Fitbit, the makers of the popular wireless fitness tracking device announced the release of Aria, their 'Wi-Fi smart scale' at CES this week. The online system and scale can remember up to eight different people, allows you to...

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...

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 ...

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....

EE Times announced its 20 hot technologies for 2012 and placed the Internet of Things as #3 on the list: In the article they only give the shortest description for the IoT: "When trillions of objects have IP...

James Bridle as the closing keynote from this year's Web Directions South conference gave his talk titled "Waving at the Machines" speaking about the New Aesthetic. "So what I’m going to...

Taking place in May of last year was the XV Future Trend Forum focusing on the "Internet of EveryThing" and brought together a wide range of industry experts to discuss the topic.The event was a collaboration with the Bankinter Foundation, Accenture and experts of the Future...