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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...

Although currently not using real time data, The Cabsense app by Sense Networks is an interesting project that shows potential for how data and sensor networks can be utilized in practical on the ground situations for users. From...

City Dashboard is a project created by researchers at the CASA research lab that gives you a quick and easy way to check the real-time "pulse" of your city via a single page that aggregates and displays information from public API's and a range...

SENSEable City Lab and SNCF have produced CO2GO, a smartphone app that uses a combination of your phones built in GPS and sensor systems to calculate your total carbon footprint in real-time. The application is...

Crafting Urban Camouflage: A workshop held as part of DIS 2012 in Newcastle, UK that seeks to address questions concerning public visibility in a technological landscape. - How might managing our visibility affect our inhabitation patterns of space?...

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. ...

The Floating Sensor Network is a project by researchers at UC Berkeley that provides real-time, high-resolution data on waterways via a series of mobile sensing 'drifters' that are placed into the water and monitored by cell networks and short-range wireless radios. As the...

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...

Energy Harvesting in the age of an Internet of Things Segments of our cities are being infused with technology capable of scavenging energy from the environment, and then using that harnessed power to drive low power communication and sensor technologies. Traffic patterns,...

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...

I developed a Tiny Web Server for an embedded small computer (Netduino Plus) with its sensors. This device can be attached to other devices to help us make a connection between different devices to speak to each other. Moreover, I developed a...

In this months issue of RTC Magazine where they cover the embedded computer industry an article by David Ress from Sensus and Mark Grazier from Texas Instruments caught our eye. They discussed how as devices proliferate into diverse...

Funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore and completed by MIT Senseable City Lab. The project hoped to give Singaporeans a new awareness of how their city behaves in response to their actions and presented the results to them through a series...

Natural Fuse is a project developed in 2009 by Haque Design + Research as part of the Architectural League of New York's Exhibition, "Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City" that harnesses the natural carbon-capturing processes of plants as they grow, and uses it in...

These 10 networked art projects show the many ways that using real-time data like weather, pollution sensors, wave monitoring and all the other outputs that are streaming around us can be used to visualize and engage our environment in new ways. 1) eCLOUD...

NODE: the bluetooth enabled handheld device from George Yu and his team at Variable Technologies is another Internet of Things project that has been fully funded on Kickstarter (Others include Twine, AirQualityEgg, NinjaBlocks, ReaDIYmate). The products basic elements include a gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer...

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.

Pulling in data from the National Digital Forecast Database Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg at Hint.Fm have put together a near real-time mapping visualization project of US wind speed and direction. Information for the map is revised once per hour so you are seeing...

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...

A recent winner of the "Future Internet Award". The SmartSantander initiative involves a city-wide experimental research facility where developers, citizens, researchers, organizations and businesses are experimenting with new applications. The project aims at providing a European experimental test facility...

A four year project was recently funded by the National Science Foundation to the tune of $2 million dollars to be used tracking the Sierra snowpack as the climate changes using wireless sensor technology.More than half of the water used in California for everyday...

SourceMap is a mapping tool meant for business owners and consumers to understand the impact of supply chains and how the products they are using contribute to the environment. It was created "so that everyone can access the information needed to make...

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...

David Bowen's project Tele-Present installation is beginning to show how art and real-time environmental data can be merged. This installation draws information from movement and intensity of the water in real-time from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data buoy station 46075 in the...