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How Will Adding Intelligence to Everyday Things Change Your World?

Sat, 11 May 2013 08:00:04 -0400

How Will Adding Intelligence to Everyday Things Change Your World? :

On a global level, we are adding connected intelligence to both machines and objects using chips, micro sensors, and both wired and wireless networks to create a rapidly growing “Internet of things” sharing real-time data, performing diagnostics, and even making remote repairs. Many jobs will be created as we add intelligent connected sensors to bridges, roads, buildings, homes, and much more. By 2020, there will be well over a billion machines talking to each other and performing tasks without human intervention.

emergentfutures: CHART OF THE DAY: The Unstoppable Rise Of...

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:00:05 -0400

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CHART OF THE DAY: The Unstoppable Rise Of Over-The-Top Mobile Messaging

OTT messaging has grown exponentially since 2011, when Informa and Portio Research both pegged its volume at about 4 billion daily messages. By year-end 2013, daily OTT message traffic is expected to more than double the amount of daily SMS texts.

Full Story: Business Insider

smartercities: Santander: Test bed for smart cities and open...

Fri, 10 May 2013 08:00:01 -0400

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Santander: Test bed for smart cities and open data policies | SmartPlanet

To support SmartSantander ambitions, the city is deploying more than 10,000 sensors to monitor everything from garbage collection to crime to air quality. Libelium, a Spanish startup, has contributed around 1,000 sensor nodes, which monitor available street parking (see sensor embedded in street, in image above), collect air quality data and manage street lighting for better energy efficiency.

smartercities: Cities are finding useful ways of handling a...

Wed, 01 May 2013 10:53:34 -0400

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Cities are finding useful ways of handling a torrent of data | The Economist

Many cities around the country are accumulating data faster than they know what to do with. One approach is to give them to the public. For example, San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago are or soon will be sharing the grades that health inspectors give to restaurants with an online restaurant directory.

Mom Boxers

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:56:18 -0400

Mom Boxers

Vespa Rolls

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:43:49 -0400

Vespa Rolls

We Cut Heads

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:06:33 -0400

We Cut Heads

1966 Danelectro Silvertone

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:28:05 -0400

1966 Danelectro Silvertone

We Love Amanda

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:26:37 -0400

We Love Amanda

smartercities: Harnessing Heat from City Roads |...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:00:20 -0400

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Harnessing Heat from City Roads | ThisBigCity

The black asphalt roads of urban centres are notorious for soaking up the sun, often helping make cities uncomfortably hot during the summer. Special piping technology from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, however, is offering a way to trap this heat and use it elsewhere, potentially transforming urban streets into giant solar collectors.

The idea is simple: the sun-warmed asphalt can be used to heat up water, which is pumped through tubes embedded a few centimetres below the road surface. This has the dual effect of cooling the asphalt, prolonging the lifespan of the road, and heating water which can be used either as is, or to produce electricity.

‘Artificial leaf’ gains the ability to self-heal damage and...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:33:13 -0400

‘Artificial leaf’ gains the ability to self-heal damage and produce energy from dirty water

Another innovative feature has been added to the world’s first practical “artificial leaf,” making the device even more suitable for providing people in developing countries and remote areas with electricity, scientists reported here today. It gives the leaf the ability to self-heal damage that occurs during production of energy. Daniel G. Nocera, Ph.D., described the advance during the “Kavli Foundation Innovations in Chemistry Lecture” at the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society…

Nocera, leader of the research team, explained that the “leaf” mimics the ability of real leaves to produce energy from sunlight and water. The device, however, actually is a simple catalyst-coated wafer of silicon, rather than a complicated reproduction of the photosynthesis mechanism in real leaves. Dropped into a jar of water and exposed to sunlight, catalysts in the device break water down into its components, hydrogen and oxygen. Those gases bubble up and can be collected and used as fuel to produce electricity in fuel cells.

Deck Dawgs

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:02:18 -0400

Deck Dawgs

Jobs

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 11:51:56 -0400

Jobs

Crowds Helping Make City Sidewalks More Accessible | Follow the...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:00:18 -0400

Crowds Helping Make City Sidewalks More Accessible | Follow the Crowd

Crowdsourcing image analysis. A study of work by Amazon Mechanical Turks analyzed their accuracy in analyzing Google Street Map images for wheelchair accessibility. Results: 81% without any quality controls and 93% with the addition of simple quality control schemes.

smartercities: A Smarter City at Work: Boston

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:00:29 -0400

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A Smarter City at Work: Boston

Eastwood Guitars Airline ‘59 3P DLX and Map Bass demo...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:24:08 -0400

Eastwood Guitars Airline ‘59 3P DLX and Map Bass demo - Keith McFadden (by myrareguitars)

Sun King

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:05:51 -0400

Sun King

smartercities: Spot crime before it occurs

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:14:42 -0400

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Spot crime before it occurs

‘Bioconcrete’ Uses Bacteria to Heal Self | ThisBigCity No...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:00:03 -0400

‘Bioconcrete’ Uses Bacteria to Heal Self | ThisBigCity

No product evokes a sense of solidity and sturdiness the way concrete does. However, the tiniest of cracks in an otherwise colossal slab will inevitably lead to structural degradation, leakages and costly repairs.

It is precisely this problem that two Dutch researchers from Delft Technical University have been working on. Beginning in 2006, Henk Jonkers, a microbiologist, and Eric Schlangen, a specialist in concrete development, sought to develop a self-healing cement [pictured] that would stop cracks from forming in the concrete, thereby extending the life of constructions.

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kateoplis: Toyota 2000GT

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:13:24 -0400

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Toyota 2000GT