via https://twitter.com/#!/mstem/status/202827550102269952

Real world, meet the Internet.

"So if you think of trinkets at a car-boot sale: old sewing machines, buckets, and plastic gnomes. They’re very different objects to wifi cans at the top of a chicken silo. They’re objects that have been designed on a human scale.""Every time someone follows their agency it releases a sweet down a set of rails.""This is a project called Ugle, which is Norwegian for “owl”. It’s a wooden object, lathed and painted, so a proper hand-crafted object, and it has a very simple interface, where you set it to point its beak at one of these triangles of different colours. And you can agree with your loved ones at home what does each of the colours mean. So it could just be that Blue means ”I’m going to be late home from work” and Yellow means “Stick the kettle on!” But it could be, if you’re an international spy that one of the colours means “Your safe house has been compromised. Flee immediately!”""This is the Goodnight Lamp, designed by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino. It’s sold as a “big lamp” and a set of “little lamps”. You keep the big lamp and use it as a bedside lamp, but you give the little lamps to your family and friends. And when you turn on your light, the little lamp at your mum’s or your partner’s or your brother’s turns on, and they know that you’ve arrived home and are going to bed. So in a way that’s a really nice idea and plays into the same idea of Lemminkäinen’s comb — your family know that you’re OK because they get this little bit of ambient information about how you are. And of course there are all kinds of interesting questions around this. Do you want your mum to know you came home at 3 o’clock in the morning? Maybe you don’t… but perhaps the subtle integration of other people’s life rhythms into yours via IoT devices will become appealing enough that it starts to become normal.""Andy Huntingdon has coined the idea of the “Geocities of Things”."

"Notes on Designing the Internet of Things, by Adrian McEwen and Hakim Cassimally, to be published in late 2012 by Wiley."

Pachube is a real-time open data web service for the Internet of Things.

"HistoryTag records the histories of specially tagged things, so you can see how they were were made and how they live in the world."

Out of context interesting quote: "The spy boss was chiefly concerned with the huge amounts of data that can be collected from American citizens who intend to become CIA agents – in an age when parents set up Twitter and Tumblr accounts for their newborns, managing the identities of future operatives suddenly becomes non-trivial."

Amazing low cost mini computer. (Too good to be true?)