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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...

Following the previous month's annoucement of making their service free, Pachube yesterday released the details of a new service focused on "enabling a world of open data devices" called Onboard.-Aimed at device manufacturers-The service enables bulk registration and the specifying of data profiles of...

BERGLondon announced this week a duo of new projects coming out of their studio in what they say is the first of many:Little Printer:- A thermal printer that communicates wirelessly through a BERGCloud bridge that is connected to your router.- It gathers a list...

On Tuesday NESTA *(National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) in London organised an event "Demanding devices – design and the internet of things" that looked at the current state and challenges of designing for an Internet of Things. It featured talks by...

Twine is a a new way to connect your things to the internet. A project created by two MIT Media lab graduates (David Carr and John Kestner) and currently seeking funding on Kickstarter (Looking for $35,000 and ending on Jan...

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...

Kicked off this week by a feature story in the NYTimes on Google's X lab (a secret internal division working on a long list of speculative projects) where one of the mentioned programs is that ol' feisty Internet enabled fridge that we have all...

Chris Anderson of Wired, Long Tail and DIY Drone fame posted this week about his recent mindset shift towards the Internet of Things becoming a real possibility. He references the continued strength of the Open Hardware movement and projects like Arduino as the main...

Thrilling Wonder Stories, an event organised by Liam Young [Tomorrows Thoughts Today], Geoff Manaugh [BldgBlog] and in association with the Architectural Association took place in both New York and London on October 28th. The videos from this year are now up on the...