Tag: internet of things Filter Filter by All AI Automation Blog Commerce Creativity Data Future Innovation Leadership Management Media Metaverse Purpose Sustainability Trends close When the city talks back By Adam Tinworth This summer, the street furniture of Bristol in the UK will start talking to you via your mobile phones. It's the internet of things as art. The Christmas of connected toys By Adam Tinworth This Christmas some children will be waking up to find that Father Christmas has left smart, connected toys like Ubooly under the tree… Coming NEXT: cool things from around the web By Adam Tinworth From miniature 3D self-portraits to a static bike that charges your iPhone - five new ideas from around the web. Andy Hobsbawn – a Facebook for objects By Adam Tinworth What if every object had its own online identity? How could that change our relationship with possessions, and change the way we understand the physical world? Andy Hobsbawm has some ideas. The Real World Just Got Better An appetiser for NEXT Service Design: Andy Hobsbawm talks at NEXT Berlin 2012 about 'digital active identities' - digital services that can be added to any kind of product. The Gartner Hype Cycle – a peak of expectations? By Adam Tinworth The 2012 edition of the Gartner Hype Cycle for emerging technologies is out - and there's a huge cluster of technologies at the peak of hype right now. Martin Spindler – The Revolution Around The Corner Adding digital capacity to ordinary objects does not necessarily make them better. This talk by Martin Spindler sheds light on the issue. He demands a change of how networked objects are designed. Google Glass: making wearable computing mainstream? By Adam Tinworth Could Google's connected glasses suggest a future where we're surrounded by wearable tech? And what does that mean for our mobile phones? Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino at NEXT Berlin 2012 We increasingly connect things to the internet. Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino is one of the few women who are not only part of this development, but are also driving and advancing it. Is entertainment a trojan horse for the digital home? By Adam Tinworth Google's Nexus Q streaming media device is its second bid for a foothold in our living rooms. But is it also a warning of a locked-down digital home? Give the teddy bears WiFi By Adam Tinworth A meander through the future of connected things, machine oddness and connected owls, guided by Russell Davies Towards the Internet of Things By Adam Tinworth A series of talks about how internet-connected objects - and computer-created artefacts - are changing our world Dreaming the Post-Digital Home By Adam Tinworth As our media libraries become digital, we're freeing up space in our homes for other things - and post-digital artefacts. Retail Revolution – How Digital Technologies Change the Way We Shop Matthias Schäfer, Interone Björn Sievers, Focus Online Bright Data, Big City Buttons, Behaviour, Robots and Toys. What Happens When We Put Data in Things. prev 1 2 3 next