December 2009
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"Nearby"
I’m unsure if it’s new or not but this is the ‘nearby’ tab of the Flickr mobile website, as seen on my iPhone. I’d not noticed it before because I rarely browse Flickr on my phone and use the slightly disappointing Flickr iPhone app to upload while i’m mobile.
When the page loads you’re asked to give it permission to use your phone’s GPS location....
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“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in...”
– Eliel Saarinen
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The Internet of Things
With any luck this graph should show the temperature of our living room over the last day.
This one should be the power consumption of our whole house.
It’s a visualisation of the 24 hours before you loaded this page created with the sensor data coming from a Current Cost energy monitor connected to my Mac Mini and reporting to Pachube.
The easiest way to describe Pachube is to say...
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“By year end 2012, physical sensors will create 20 percent of non-video internet...”
– Gartner
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High Tech Problem / Low Tech Solution.
I saw this broken Oyster reader on the way to work today.
It’s made me think about error/failure reporting with regard to ubiquitous or pervasive computing.
If your interaction with something is entirely transparent and the result of your action is invisible - how can you tell if it’s worked or not?
In the case of a broken Oyster reader like this I’d tap my card on it and it wouldn’t...
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Fake
Fake is the New Real is a collection of urban maps, art and lists by Neil Freeman.
WatchHyperland was a ‘fantasy’ documentary about hypertext and its associated technologies written by Douglas Adams and aired on BBC2 in 1990.
Fascinating. It’s important to bear in mind that this was about two years before the first web browser was developed.