Why Copyrighted Coffee May Cripple the Internet of Things

Limiting the interoperability of the Internet of Things could also restrict systems far less trivial than coffee or kitchen appliances; it might have the greatest impact on infrastructure, in important questions that get decided far from the eyes of everyday consumers. As Kominers points out, hospitals are starting to benefit from interconnected sensors, which are finding their way into everything from medication dispensers to doctors’ pens to even (though monitoring devices) the patients themselves. One might hope that hospitals would ensure interoperability within their own internal systems. But without open standards, one hospital’s “Intranet of Things” might not be able to talk to another hospital’s network, causing much usable data to be lost.

Source: WIRED

When the Art Is Watching You

One morning last week, a team of experts at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum searched for hidden spots in the rotunda to conceal tiny electronic transmitters. The devices will enable the museum to send messages about artworks to visitors via their smartphones while at the same time collect details about the comings and goings of those guests.

At today’s museums, all eyes aren’t just on the art. They’re on the visitors.

Across the country, museums are mining increasingly detailed layers of information about their guests, employing some of the same strategies that companies like Macy’s, Netflix and Wal-Mart have used in recent years to boost sales by tracking customer behavior. Museums are using the visitor data to inform decisions on everything from exhibit design to donor outreach to gift-shop marketing strategies.

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Wooden Mirror Like A Kinotrope

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GPS lamps and the (in)visible landscape of the networked city

Satellite Lamps is a project investigating one of the most important contemporary infrastructures, the Global Positioning System or GPS. It’s a project curated by Einar Sneve Martinussen, Jørn Knutsen and Timo Arnall as part of the Yourban research project at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and continues their previous work on revealing the materials of technologies that started in 2009 with RFID and Immaterials: Light Painting Wifi. The project uses Arduinoextensively, and is also thoroughly documented:

GPS is widely used yet it’s invisible and few of us really have any idea of how it works or how it inhabits our everyday environments. We created a series of Lamps that change brightness according to the accuracy of received GPS signals, and when we photograph them as timelapse films, we start to get a picture of how these signals behave in actual urban spaces.

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Global instinctive positioning system

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Beacons Hits The Beach

Beacons Hits The Beach - And a Magazine Near You | BEEKn

Alter Bahnhof Video Walk

Alter Bahnhof Video Walk er designet for den gamle jernbanestasjonen i Kassel, Tyskland som en del av dOCUMENTA (13). Deltakerne får låne en iPod og hodetelefoner fog blir deretter ledet gjennom stasjonen av en kommentarstemme.

Estimote beacon hackathon

Assembl.us’s app works with a Beacon placed inside a conference room. It’s integrated with a digital schedule and booking system so as to notify you about any upcoming meetings. Head to Assembl.us website to learn more.

BiggerBox came in second with a cool app for helping shoppers get better control of their mall trips, especially to places like IKEA, where sometimes your cart is the size of a sedan. Learn more about how BiggerBox makes Reality Matter right here.Reality matters — Estimote apps rock the largest beacon hackathon to date

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