Sam Kinsley

• Zoombak Universal Locator
  "The Zoombak Universal A-GPS locator helps you stay connected to the things that matter the most by allowing you to actively locate what you are tracking in real-time and on-demand. It is a simple and ingenious way to keep track of items that need keeping track of - including children, bicycles, pets, backpacks and more!" Is there an equivalence between the list of those things?!
  (tags: surveillance tagging gps ubicomp paranoia)
• BBC NEWS | Technology | HP test mobile social network
  "An intelligent, mobile-phone-based social network is being tested by researchers at Hewlett Packard. Friendlee analyses calls and messages to build up a picture of a person's closest correspondents." Bernardo Huberman is at it again, a quantitative algorithmic analysis is s'posed to give a reflection of your social life. An interesting experiment, possibly a disaster in personal privacy.
  (tags: technology mobile socialnetworking web2.0 community hci hp research socialsoftware surveillance trends)
• Wireless in the world on Vimeo
  Neat and simple visualisation of wirelessly communicable objects.
  (tags: video visualisation wireless communication technology ubicomp ubiquity networking)
• Gizmodo - Testing Project Natal: We Touched the Intangible - Project Natal
  Testing M$ 'natal', good review (with video) if a little gushing: "I haven't been quite this blown away by a tech demo in a long time. It looked neat onstage at Microsoft's keynote. Seeing it, feeling it in person, makes me want to believe that this what the future of gaming looks like—no buttons, no joysticks, no wands. The only thing left to get rid of is the screen, and even that'll happen soon enough."
  (tags: technology microsoft hci interaction interface review games spatiality)
• Cityscapes: Ubiquitous Computing | ART.CULT
  More ubicomp near-futurism: "One coming change in the cityscape that I’m expecting will be subtle, but pervasive: technology folks call it “ubiquitous computing.” The city will be alive with information, even more so than it is now. Every object—street signs, food carts, trains and busses, and especially people—will be digitally connected into an “internet of things.” It sounds Buck Rogers but in many ways it’s here already: Metrocards are connected to bank accounts, cell phones know where you are (and what’s nearby), signs on some subway platforms know when the next train is due to arrive."
  (tags: anticipation futurism ubicomp urbancomputing computing urban technology commentary)

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