In his Weekly Update, Adam Lesser, the Gigaom Research curator for cleantech, looks at ‘Going with analytics when you don’t have sensors’. Particularly he looks at innovative transportation applications that become… Read more »
With the help of StormTag, OpenSignal wants to open up its WeatherSignal crowdsourcing program to the iPhone as well as collect new types of climate data. Read more »
Can we turn ordinary plants into sensors, in order to learn more about the environment? A bunch of European researchers with nearly $1.5 million in funding think it can be done. Read more »
A new experimental feature takes advantage of the sensors inside Google Glass. When Glass receives a new notification and sounds a chime, users simply have to look at the small display… Read more »
Building more powerful user interfaces isn’t just about software, such as the newly launched product from Aquifi, but about providing more context. This will make UIs better and programming harder. Read more »
Italy’s VisLab has selected BlackBerry’s QNX OS to power its computer vision experiments in autonomous cars. The idea is to help the car to combine and process the information it gets… Read more »
The tiny sensor also powers itself with TV signals, which already fill the air around us. The team behind the device says it could have big applications for the internet of… Read more »
Swiss researchers tested the prosthetic on a Danish man who lost his hand nine years ago. He was able to feel objects without worrying about crushing them. Read more »
That devices will communicate with the cloud is the default setting for most thinking on architecting a connected world. But that’s not the only way it could play out. Read more »