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“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
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UAVs are controlled by British Army operators using x-box style controllers and “at the Farnborough air show this week… arms-maker Raytheon showed off its new Universal Control System for robotic aicraft. It’s based on the same technology that drives Ha
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“…part of the urban computing vision are driven by the newly available data, with a “let’s map and see” trial and error approach rather than starting from human and urban considerations”
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” One thing about technology, is that it tends to make people generally lazy about their levels of commitment. Perhaps we should push instead for the development of technologies and applications that encourage people to invest time and effort in an activi
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Ubicomp may come in unexpected guises perhaps… “Reportedly, deodorant manufacturer Right Guard has created an armpit-based method of advertising which has cleverly been dubbed ‘pitvertising.’ “
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Ubicomp style project ‘cityware’ courts controversy with bluetooth sniffing techniques, privacy concerns are raised: “Tens of thousands of Britons are being covertly tracked without their consent in a technology experiment which has installed scanners at
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“Most people no longer look at the physical journal in the library, which the library clearly owns outright, but look at articles through online services. The questions then become: how is that paid for? What is owned? What happens to the “owned” content
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Nova picks up on the recent special issue of IEEE pervasive computing on ‘hacking’ – “hacking can play a powerful role in pervasive computing as it can inspire ‘thought processes and reduce the time it takes to create a viable prototype’. This process can
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“Valerie Cunningham interviews Jamis McNiven, the owner of Buck’s Diner, in Woodside, Calif. This is where many of Silicon Valley’s most famous companies got their start: pitching their business plans in breakfast meetings with local VCs” – a dreadful
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Nova crits a posting by Janne Jalkanen and throws in his 2p, describing three flaws with the vision (shoudn’t that be plural?) of ubicomp: 1) limited options makes the user feel smarter but constrains creativity; 2) building & maintaining an infrastructur
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