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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...

The Pachube community and a growing group of contributors including Mark Shepard, JP de Vooght, Rob van Kranenburg and others have embarked on developing what they are calling Air Quality Eggs. Taking another step forward in the emerging world of citizen sensing the open-source...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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. ...

iMAL (interactive Media Art Laboratory) in Brussels just completed "Generator.x 3.0 :from code to atoms" one of their openLAB workshops that focused on "how software processes can be combined with digital fabrication to produce physical objects that are the result of dynamic software systems...

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...

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 LabBox Grower is a fully contained hydroponic grow box, that utilizes an automated drip system and high powered LEDs to deliver what you need to grow your own plant, herbs, and medicine at home. Driven by a PicAxe 14M micro-controller and preprogrammed...

A new book on the IOT was recently released (Only in French at the moment) by Laurent Gonzalez and Philippe Gautier The book is described as a "result of a meeting between a professional...

Knut (Pronounced kah-noot) is a Wi-Fi sensor hub currently seeking Kickstarter funding for finalizing smartphone app development (Iphone, Windows, Android) and picking up the raw materials for production.The device was created by two Boston based friends Richard Pasek and Jay Gondelman and was originally...

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...

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...

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...

Ninja Blocks are wireless devices that use a combination of sensors and a backend cloud service to enable you to create “if this then that” style tasks for your world. The creators are currently looking for development funds on Kickstarter (40 days to go...

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...

I would like to introduce you to Brad. He is a toaster and a member of a new breed of networked "addicted products" created by Simone Rebaudengo and Haque design+research that explore some new ground rules for their use: ...

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...

Connect the Embedded world to the Internet openPICUS is internet freedom for your things, control and communication for your electronic devices. ...

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...

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...