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“Robots can be said to have their own culture precisely because they don’t need to copy our sociologisms in order to be social, although what they do in their own social realm may not easily map on to things we do in our social realm”
— Stuart Geiger - The ethnography of robots
(Source: berglondon.com)
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QuickeR by Stephen D Nicholas uses “video QR codes” to transmit data between devices.
(via DanW)
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Fireball - a prototype 500g throwable sensor “grenade” from Intel allows firemen to monitor temperature and levels of specific gases (ammonia, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide). The data is sent to a server in the fire engine, then sent back to the firefighters via smartphones or other devices. Multiple sensors can be used simultaneously and their data aggregated to help the firefighters build a better picture of the situation.
Future versions of the fireball will triangulate between themselves and the server to relay their location as well as sensor data.
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ZigBee
An introduction to the up-and-coming wireless communication protocol already being used in several home automation systems.
