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New York based design studio Breakfast worked with rider Janeen McCrae to enable her bike named "Precious" to share its speed, location, temperature and more to the world as they traveled across the country in 2010 to raise money for the LIVESTRONG charity.During its 3 month journey...

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...

ArduMotion is an easy to use motion controller designed to allow iPhone, iPad, and Android phones to control this arduino compatible board with built in support for ESC, Servos, Dual H-Bridge DC motor controller, and a tiny GPS 

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 Fireflies is an installation created by design and technology collective UNCODED for the facade at the Prado MediaLab in Madrid. The game functions by using light from cell phones as controllers that remove the "threats" that are...

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...

The Descriptive Camera created by Matt Richardson (@MattRichardson) as part of a Computational Camera class at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program takes an entirely new approach to photography and metadata by creating a device that turns your captured imagery into words via Amazon's Mechanical Turk service and a...

With the tagline "instant cash for phones" the ecoATM kiosk's use the Axeda cloud platform and built in diagnostic tools to analyze the condition and quality of old consumer devices (currently targeting cellphones) and give users cash on the spot for their used electronics...

EveryHeartBeat is a project announced by Leslie Saxon, MD from the USC Center for Body Computing to "connect the more than 5 billion mobile phones in the world to...

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 iDigi Device Cloud is a cloud service that provides highly effective application integration with device networks. It is driving The Internet of Anything™, connecting any application, anywhere, to anything, anywhere. The iDigi Device Cloud solves the inherent challenges of two-way...

ioBridge, Inc. is pleased to announce that Zodiac Pool Systems, Inc. selected ioBridge to provide Internet connectivity technology and cloud services for its new iAquaLink™ intelligent pool and spa control product. iAquaLink allows pool owners to control their pool from their smartphones using native...

RFID on-line shop with support from what we are told are some of the most helpful people in the business. We implement solutions ourselves so we know the problems that RFID technology users face and we are always willing to talk through requirements to...

Netbrics give you plug and play Internet of Things. Netbrics come with built-in connectivity that works right out of the box. Everywhere. No setup needed. Combine different Netbrics modules with additional sensors...

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...

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...

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...

tōd (pronounced “toad”) is a new Bluetooth 4.0 smart beacon currently seeking manufacturing funding on Kickstarter (2/3 of the way there with 20 days to go as 5/13/2012) from the folks at RowdyRobot. The device is driven by a single coin battery, has an...

LiftMaster, recently brought out a new generation of residential garage door openers that utilize a patented two-way communication system called MyQ that enables these advanced units to open and close the garage door as well as manage other household devices from anywhere in the...

Tales of Things using QR codes allows users to create an entry on the site for any object they like. A basic entry features an image, text, audio, video and other content can also be added. The site then generates a unique two-dimensional barcode,...

From their project page: THE COPHENHAGEN WHEEL Smart, responsive and elegant, the Copenhagen Wheel is a new emblem for urban mobility. It transforms ordinary bicycles quickly into hybrid...

LiveHoods is a project developed by a group of Urban Computing researchers at Carnegie Mellon focused on "studying the dynamics, structure, and character of a city on a large scale using social media and machine learning."Starting with New York City, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh the team...