03
Feb
Laws are codified social standards; but in the future, codified technical standards will be just as important as laws. As networks mature, and make the transition from ad hoc prestandard free-for-alls to fluid hot spots of innovation, and then into full-fledged systems with deeply embedded standards, standards increasingly ossify into something like laws.
We are really very much smarter on the inside than on the outside. Our firmware is very, very good.
Danny Rozin /via @cassettenova
Design perception and interactive materials by Clemens Winkler. “How do we react to electric current? With which senses do we perceive electric current? How do we react when we are tensed?” /via transforms
02
Feb
PEIR gives you greater control over your environmental impact and exposure by allowing you to interactively explore how it creates its results from your activity patterns.
Thinglink is about defining the relationships people have with things - who made them, who designed them, who manufactured them, who sells them, who owns them, who likes them.
01
Feb
Microchip-equipped sensors can be designed to monitor and measure not only motion, but also temperature, chemical contamination or biological changes. The applications for sensor-based computing, experts say, include buildings that manage their own energy use, bridges that sense motion and metal fatigue to tell engineers they need repairs, cars that track traffic patterns and report potholes, and fruit and vegetable shipments that tell grocers when they ripen and begin to spoil.
Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality.
Charles Eames /via bashford
31
Jan
Implantable material can let us take energy from breathing.
“Piezoelectric Ribbons Printed Onto Rubber for Flexible Energy Conversion”
30
Jan
Big Brothers - Satellites Orbiting Earth /via Michæl Paukner shnelll
