Empowering Africa's Next Generation: The AI Leadership Blueprint
Alexandra Sonsino's Presentation at Emerging Communication Conference & Awards 2009 Europe
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2. The internet of stuff how the internet of things might change the way we communicate Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino CEO & Co-Founder of Tinker.it! twitter.com / tinker_it eComm 09 October 28th 2009
5. The internet of what? Things surround us and we surround ourselves with things. We’ve either chosen them or they have been chosen for us. They are sometimes described as “smart”, often and mostly dumb.
6. Half-baked history 1990 - Networked Coke machine - Xerox park 1998 - Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol - The Internet Society 2001 - Smart fridge concept announced by Tesco 2001 - Orange at home- Smart homes 2005 - Shaping Things - Bruce Sterling 2005 - Arduino is born - Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy 2006 - Nabaztag is launched - Violet 2006 - iPod + Nike is launched - Apple 2006 - Everyware - Adam Greenfield 2006 - LIFT - Blogject workshop - Julian Bleecker & Nicolas Nova 2006 - Near field interactions workshop, NordiCHI, Oslo 2007 - Whattson - DIY Kyoto 2007 - iPhone is launched - Apple 2007 - Xbee takes off with Making Things Talk - Tom Igoe 2008 - Pachube is out of alpha 2008 - Arduino Ethernet shield is launched 2008 - Nick O’Leary at IBM gets his Current Cost meter hooked up 2009 - TinkerKit development is announced 2009 - Tom Taylor gets a micro printer to talk Twitter 2009 - Bubblino by Adrian McEwen is a fixture at Uk tech conferences
30. Challenges How do you switch them off? How do you tell them to shut up? How do you lie? “ Nonverbal communication makes it easier to lie without being revealed.”
31. The future is almost there New investment from telcos Partnerships with smaller businesses A decentralised view of technology provision User-centered / generated solutions An internet of it all.
32. Thanks! Dank u! http://www.slideshare.net/jyri/microblogging-tiny-social-objects-on-the-future-of-participatory-media Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino www.tinker.it
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Notas do Editor
Smart homes, smart phones, smart fridges, smart meters..all mostly objetc we don’t care about particularily…
Inferring presence based on devices. Identity through discovery.
Tweet-a-watt - http://www.ladyada.net/make/tweetawatt/ http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/tweetawatt_our_entry_for_the_core77.html Tweet-a-watt is a modified wall energy consumption meter. Produced by ‘tinkerer’ ‘Lady Ada’ it uses Xbee radio to communicate wirelessly back to her computer providing a break down of energy consumption from each room. This information is then tweeted at intervals and put onto an energy monitoring website.
A way to tweet whenever your baby kicks http://portfolio.menscher.com/itp/kickbee/
Examples of what people have been building include a cat tracker that uses RFID. http://www.nermal.org/projects/catalog/
A project that allows you to get a tweet or SMS if your plants haven’t been watered enough.
Adrian McEwen’s Bubblino project
Pachube - http://www.pachube.com/ This is a geographic API for sharing information and building an internet of things, with value information.