The Coffee Fix: Can the $11,000 Clover Machine Save Starbucks? The Clover coffee maker, an extraordinary machine for making a great cup of coffee – and now in the hands of coffee’s “evil empire”. (tags: coffee technology anticipation) A Coffee Connoisseur on a Mission: Buy High and Sell High – [...]

HP’s grand vision: measure everything – Jul. 18, 2008 Fortune article about research at HP’s ‘Information and Quantum Systems Laboratory’ around nanotech and ubicomp that would provide something like, what the journo called, ‘a central nervous system for the earth’. Interesting ‘visions’, promises and hopes (tags: research anticipation hope promise [...]

Samuelson Clinic | Samuelson Clinic Survey Finds Strong Support for Privacy of Location Data | Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic Interesting research in California around the support for privacy of location data. Many Californians are willing to pragmatically ‘give up’ that privacy for perceived benefits:

“A majority of Californians understands that wireless [...]

Arduino “Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.” (tags: ubicomp technology design experimentation hacking interactive interface opensource research sensors)

thingm :: an electronic product studio “ThingM is a ubiquitous computing device studio. Here, networked electronics meet user experience design in products for everyday problem solving and self-expression. We bring together people’s lives with cutting edge technologies to research and develop (tags: media mobile computing urbancomputing ubicomp technology [...]

Technology Review: Digging a Smarter Crowd “igg’s entry into the field of recommendations is interesting because news has a very different character from e-commerce. While shopping sites are dealing with fads that play out over the course of weeks and months, news sites are dealing with fads that (tags: socialsoftware web2.0

Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Cybercity representations Nova on representations of imagined online places/spaces: “Working on both fields of video games and urban computing, I find interesting to observe the relationship between the image of the city and its physical counterpart. For that matter, it seems that (tags: anticipation future maps [...]

Ritual Roasters My new, temporary, purveyor of coffee. A good choice of varieties and they don’t seem over-roasted! (tags: coffee cupofexcellence sanfrancisco) The recent past and future of mobile phones – video “The future of mobile phones is perhaps… not a mobile phone at all, but rather a contextually aware [...]