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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...

A glass lamp that uses color to show weather forecasts, trends in the market, or the traffic on your homeward commute.The Orb arrives preset to track the Dow Jones Industrial Average, glowing more green or red to indicate market movement up or down, or...

Never forget your umbrella again. If rain is forecast, the handle of this umbrella glows so you won't forget it. The Ambient Umbrella continuously displays forecast data for 150 U.S. locations.Embedded in the handle is Ambient's wirelessdata-radio. This...

Articulated Surface is a project created by three students (Justine Holzman, Ji Park and Luke Venable) for their Responsive Systems course at LSU's Landscape Architecture program. The proposal uses real-time data from the Atchafalaya River Basin to create a dynamic art installation and public...

Using GSM technology (versus wifi) the The Bodytrace eScale system will take your weight measurements and then upload them automatically to their site for tracking and comparisons over time. From their website: ...

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...

London's "Silicon Roundabout" seems to be on a roll these days with "the Good Night Lamp" to be the latest product to make an appearance from this group of talented companies. Initiated by Design Swarm Industries each lamp "family" is composed of a large...

“connecting up our things to the web, our environments to our things, and our things to us” DisplayCabinet is a prototype developed over the course of 24 hours by Ben Bashford, Dan Williams, and Tim Burrell-Saward for last...

"Save Money. Help the Planet." That is the moto of Ambient Devices and Consumer Powerline for the product Energy Joule. Available only for users of Consumer Powerline’s demand-response program, the Energy Joule, or Home Joule as it is called now, is...

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. ...

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 - GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announced that it has acquired SensorLogic. Terms of the transaction, which was structured as an asset deal, were not disclosed. Founded in 2002, with its main...

GlowCaps fit popular prescription bottles available at Walgreens and other retail pharmacies. Inside the GlowCap is a wireless chip that enables four services. Collectively, the services help people stick with their prescription regimen. 1. Reminders Ramp from Subtle to InsistentGlowCaps...

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...

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...

One of the pioneers in the early consumer Internet of Things devices, Nabaztag (Armenian for "rabbit") is a Wi-Fi enabled ambient electronic device in the shape of a rabbit, originally manufactured by the company Violet. A few of Nabaztag features include: * Blinks,...

From Olinda's site on Berg: Olinda is a prototype digital radio that has your social network built in, showing you the stations your friends are listening to. It’s customizable with modular hardware, and aims to provoke discussion on...

Paraimpu is a social tool with the aim to allow people to connect, use, share and compose physical and virtual Things, services and devices to create personalized applications in the field of the Web of Things.

Pebble Watch made a big debut on Kickstarter by exceeding its funding goal by $500,000 within the first 12 hours of launching, it will become just one in the latest series of Connected Watches to come to market that brings data from your smartphone...

Alohar Mobile is a startup lead by former Googler Sam Liang creating a new persistent sensing platform that collects location and other data from your smartphone's sensors (motion, altitude, direction, wifi, timing, etc) and quickly analyzes it to understand a user's behavior.Watch the video...

Having trouble sitting up straight during the long hours at the computer, or dealing with general back aches and pains? LUMOback wants to help you improve your posture via the combination of a thin wearable sensor that monitors posture and sends vibrations to your...

Take some paper cutouts, add a little Wi-Fi connectivity and mix in some of your existing web services and you get something that looks like reaDIYmate. The latest product from Marc Chareyron and Olivier Mevel (co-founder of Nabaztag) that allows you to take your...

Rymble- The social internet object that brings your social network to the real world. Brought to you by Symplico who focus on designing products and experiences merging the real-world and the Internet. This is their first product...

The Samsung Smart Window, currently in prototype phase and demonstrated at this year's CES features Virtual Blinds, a full touch TFT (thin-film transistor) LCD display and is said to require only 10% of normal power consumption due to being partially powered by the sun....

Although this Tree located just outside of Brussels has been online since 2010 it is still going strong broadcasting its latest photos, mood and conditions out to its more than 4000 Twitter followers and Facebook friends from all around the world. (YouTube, Flickr, and...