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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 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...

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...

BERGLondon announced this week a duo of new projects coming out of their studio in what they say is the first of many:Little Printer:- A thermal printer that communicates wirelessly through a BERGCloud bridge that is connected to your router.- It gathers a list...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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?...

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...

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 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...

Product Description The book's aim is to define the Internet of Things (IoT) in a global view, present the research agenda for Internet of Things technologies by addressing the new technological developments and providing...

Continuing on with our series on how the term Internet of Things is lurching its way into mainstream culture, we look into a recent post on Etsy. if you're not familiar with the site it is basically a large marketplace for DIY'ers and craftsman to...

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...

London based design firm Digit has decided to spice up their office routine by adding some real world competition and fitness to their daily routines with an in-house project City Peaks that "makes mountain ranges out of staircases" The game is powered by a combination...

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...

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...