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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...

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...

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...

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...

Stumbling across this Wi-Fi enabled pet feeder FeedandGo just made the prospect of owning a dog sometime in the future a little more appealing. The price of the device is $199 (as of 2/29/2012) and comes with a...

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...

The Lockitron door lock system enables you to replace your keys with your phone. Create virtual keys for family and friends using their backend dashboard system and for a small monthly fee owners can also enable text-message access. Currently working for...

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...

The Spotify Box is the work of Jordi Parra as part of his final degree project at the Umeå Institute of Design. It was recently given a "Disrupting Concept" award at the 2012 interaction design awards and he is currently working out the...

Swiss startup Koubachi is following up on the trail laid by Botanicalls and other DIY projects in letting you track and receive notifications from your indoor and outdoor plants when they are in need of watering or additional fertilizer. ...