« Why Facebook accounts are disabled | Main | DIY Home at Maker Faire » Public appearancesAn excessively busy couple of weeks here. Last week I coordinated a couple of sessions at Innotech Austin, where we talked about Sustainability and Social Media in one session, and Ambient Intelligence and Digital Convergence in another. (Some photos here. For Maker Faire this weekend, I've been working with Derek Woodgate, David Demaris, Joey Lopez, Maggie Duval et al to create a "futurama" installation on the DIY home of the future. We hope to give a good sense of three aspects of the home of the future: 1) it's reconfigurable by the "user," 2) it's responsive (via sensors picking up health and energy information, etc., and 3) it's an environment for immersive media and ambient intelligence. These are potential, anyway - I can imagine barriers. I talked to someone yesterday who's working on a project to create smart energy meters for homes that will send readings over the network (an idea that's been around for many years, but it's finally going somewhere). He said that the energy companies don't want residents to be able to see their energy usage. Not sure why; if I was a conspiracy theorist, I would imagine they want to jack with the numbers before they send a bill. But surely not... Photo: The Sustainability and Social Media panel at Innotech... l to r: me, Bill Anderson, David Armistead, Josh Parker jon posted this at 7:58 AM |
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