Some interesting material about ubicomp surveillance and the potential of 'virtual wall' devices to claw back some privacy. But will it work? Will it be easily hacked? Will it be legal? Will we even w
"A lot of work into flexible sensors uses substrates that only bend in one axis," Liu explains, "we want to be able to have things fully flexible in three dimensions."
"The basic idea is that a slew of emerging technologies -- RFID tags, wireless networking, portable devices hooked up to satellites, wearable computing -- will make objects in the real world act
"Daily newspapers printed on demand by Newspapers Direct. What does the fact that this business exists in a world of ubiquitous digital content say about our appreciation of physical content?&quo
"Award-winning science fiction Vernor Vinge, speaking at the Austin Game Conference, gave his vision of a future in which connectivity was literally in the air around us." Hat-tip to Bruce S
"Ted got busted because we do graffiti. Losing Ted was a big setback, as Ted was the only guy in our gang who knew how to steal aerosol spray cans." It's a short story from Bruce Sterling! R
Great futurist article on CNN by one Stuart Wolf, depicting a near-future where your computer lives in a headband, and you see your data in your normal field of vision, thanks to quantum computers. Go
Very small computers indeed, for building into 'embedded applications'. Ubicomp and Everyware are edging closer to reality every moment... Link via OhGizmo.
Not very well structured thoughts on the LIFT07 talks about ubiquitous computing. There was a dedicated session about it with Julian Bleecker, Ben Cerveny and Adam Greenfield but some other talks can
explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism: How is our experience of the city and the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, amb