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“DoorBot: the battery operated Wi-Fi video doorbell that connects to smartphones and tablets. See who is at your door — anytime/anywhere.”
Compatible with Lockitron.
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NEC NeoFace Pervasive Monitoring
Monitoring for unknown individuals in a secure environment.
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“The EyeSee looks ordinary enough on the outside, with its slender polystyrene frame, blank face and improbable pose. Inside, it’s no dummy. A camera embedded in one eye feeds data into facial-recognition software like that used by police. It logs the age, gender, and race of passers-by.”
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Pixelhead by Martin Backes is a pixel-style print of German Secretary of the Interior Hans-Peter Friedrich. It acts as media camouflage, completely shielding the head to ensure that your face is not recognisable on photographs taken in public places without securing permission.
A simple piece of fabric creates a little piece of anonymity for the Internet age.
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2.4Ghz by Benjamin Gaulon makes the streams from wireless surveillance cameras visible to the public.
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The Radio Nurse (and Guardian Ear) designed by Isamu Noguchi for Zenith Radio was the first baby monitor - released in 1937.
“Noguchi’s design manages to be both abstract and figurative at the same time. It looks like a faceless bust with the suggestion of a nurse’s cap in back, but also like an Art-Deco radio. It represented his exploration of the the notion of the interchangeability of biological and machine forms, and well as his concept of everyday objects as sculpture. Also, the speaker grille is reminiscent of the Japanese Kendo mask, and is typical of Noguchi’s combination of Eastern and Western forms.”
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Facedeals by ad agency RedPepper provides a new, “seamless” way for Facebook users to check-in at their favorite businesses. Hrm.
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“‘Transformational’ is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies, particularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft.”
— CIA Director David Petraeus - We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher
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“With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching cheap radio equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry Pi, we’re going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air. This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes in order to shut down the system. A real act of war.”
— The Pirate Bay - TPB LOSS (via DanW)
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“Oxford Nanopore says by the end of the year it will begin selling a disposable DNA sequencer about the size of a USB memory stick that can be plugged directly into a laptop or desktop computer and used to perform a single-molecule sensing experiment. The device is expected to sell for $900, according to the company.”
