sensors

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...

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 

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...

With an opening question asking "What if our devices kept talking back to us after we disposed of them?" MIT's Senseable City Labs continues to expand on their Trash|Track project that focuses on what happens to our devices and their materials once they are...

Selene Chew an Industrial Designer for Clariant is in the process of further developing BlindSpot her final student thesis project that combines an assistant cane, social networking and several feedback mechanisms to help inform visually impaired people if a friend or family member is...

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: ...

Using the Botanicalls system, your plants can call you on the phone when they need watering, and even call to thank you when they are satisfied. From their site: "Botanicalls opens a...

Charalampos Doukas has released his new book that helps you build Internet of Things related projects utilizing the Arduino platform as a base.Description:In Building Internet of Things with the Arduino, you’ll learn the basic concepts and features of the Internet of Things and build...

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...

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...

From their site: What if every mobile device had an air quality sensor? We are developing mobile sensing technologies that help communities gather and analyze environmental data. We hope that...

Jeff Hoefs a NYC based interaction designer and new media artist has released a new protoptyping tool called Breakout, the project grew out of "a need for a simple platform to enable designers to prototype functional web-based interfaces to the physical world". It...

James and Joshua over at the Rockwell Group labs are getting some recognition in this years IxDAwards for their Plug-In-Play project installed in late 2010 at Richard Meier's San Jose City Hall. The project functioned via "stations" placed...

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...

Ultra low power 6LoWPAN WSN runs entirely on harvested energy Dust Networks, the leader in intelligent wireless sensor network solutions, today announced that they will demonstrate a SmartMesh® IP 6LoWPAN wireless network running on harvested...

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...

Exosite is a technology company focused on connecting devices and systems. Our cloud-based data platform makes it easy to put real-world information online where the right people – and systems – can interact with it. ...

The Internet of Things goes for the commercial packaging market.  Targeted for a 2010 release to a few select companies Fedex is rolling out a new sensor based packaging system called SenseAware that will give you the most critical data about your shipment, in...

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...