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Visualization of the Week: AntiMap
A new mobile phone app, AntiMap Log, allows users to record their own data as they move around. The app uses the phone’s GPS and compass sensors to capture the following data: latitude, longitude,...
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The Reading Glove engages senses and objects to tell a story
I encountered Karen Tanenbaum (@ktanenbaum) through friends over on the Make side of O’Reilly Media. Thinking she might be a potential speaker for an upcoming edition of our Tools of Change for...
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Editorial Radar with Mike Loukides & Mike Hendrickson
Mike Loukides and Mike Hendrickson, two of O’Reilly Media’s editors, sat down recently to talk about what’s on their editorial radars. Mike and Mike have almost 50 years of combined technical book...
View ArticleFrom smartphones and continuous data comes the social MRI
It’s clear at this point that the smartphone revolution has very little to do with the phone function in these devices. Rather, it’s the unique mix of sensors, always-on connectivity and mass consumer...
View ArticleFour short links: 1 August 2012
China Hackers Hit EU Point Man and DC (Bloomberg) — wow. The extent to which EU and US government and business computer systems have been penetrated is astonishing. Stolen information is flowing out...
View ArticleSensors and Arduino: How to glue them together
Federico Lucifredi (@federico_II) is the maintainer of man(1) and also the author of the upcoming book, Sensor Interfaces for Arduino. We had a chance to sit down recently and talk about how to connect...
View ArticleFour short links: 9 August 2012
Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy (Amazon) — soon-to-be-released book by Bill Janeway, of Warburg-Pincus (and the O’Reilly board). People raved about his session at scifoo. I’m bummed I...
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The complexity of designing for everywhere
In her new book The Mobile Frontier, author Rachel Hinman (@Hinman) says the mobile design space is a wide-open frontier, much like space exploration or the Wild West, where people have room to...
View ArticleFour short links: 4 October 2012
As We May Think (Vannevar Bush) — incredibly prescient piece he wrote for The Atlantic in 1945. Transparency and Topic Models (YouTube) — a talk from DataGotham 2012, by Hanna Wallach. She uses latent...
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Listening for tired machinery
Software is making its way into places where it hasn’t usually been before, like the cutting surfaces of very fast, ultra-precise machine tools. A high-speed milling machine can run at 42,000 RPM as it...
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The inevitability of smart dust
I’ve put forward my opinion that desktop computing is dead on more than one occasion, and been soundly put in my place as a result almost every time. “Of course desktop computing isn’t dead — look at...
View ArticleDefining the industrial Internet
We’ve been collecting threads on what the industrial Internet means since last fall. More case studies, company profiles and interviews will follow, but here’s how I’m thinking about the framework of...
View ArticleFour short links: 8 May 2013
How to Build a Working Digital Computer Out of Paperclips (Evil Mad Scientist) — from a 1967 popular science book showing how to build everything from parts that you might find at a hardware store:...
View ArticleFour short links: 5 June 2013
OATV Fund III Pitch Deck (Slideshare) — contains a list of what they were investing in, and what they want to invest in with the new round. Then: Quantified self; Internet subsystems; Smart networks...
View ArticleContext Aware Programming
I’m increasingly realizing that many of my gripes about applications these days are triggered by their failure to understand my context in the way that they can and should. For example: Unruly apps on...
View ArticleSoftware, hardware, everywhere
Real and virtual are crashing together. On one side is hardware that acts like software: IP-addressable, controllable with JavaScript APIs, able to be stitched into loosely-coupled systems—the mashups...
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Wearable computing and automation
In a recent conversation, I described my phone as “everything that Compaq marketing promised the iPAQ was going to be.” It was the first device I really carried around and used as an extension of my...
View ArticleFour short links: 20 December 2013
A History of the Future in 100 Objects — is out! It’s design fiction, describing the future of technology in faux Wired-like product writeups. Amazon already beating the timeline. Projects and...
View ArticleFour short links: 1 January 2014
Witrack — tracks the 3D motion of a user from the radio signals reflected off her body. It works even if the person is occluded from the WiTrack device or in a different room. WiTrack does not require...
View ArticleFour short links: 6 January 2014
4043-byte 8086 Emulator — manages to implement most of the hardware in a 1980’s era IBM-PC using a few hundred fewer bits than the total number of transistors used to implement the original 8086 CPU....
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