McKinsey: the physical world as an information system

“tools for understanding complexity”
“some of them even work largely without human intervention”
“tremendous storage and computing resources linked with advanced software systems”
“complex autonomous systems”
“energy consumption efficiency and process optimization are good early targets”
“established companies can seek partnerships with innovative technology suppliers”
The latest issue of McKinsey Quarterly, available free upon registration, covers the Internet Of Things. [...]

At the America’s Cup in Valencia with Green Comm Challenge

The 33rd America’s Cup opened this Monday in Valencia, and we are here at the Green Comm Challenge base, following the race between the two teams of Alinghi, the defender, and BMW Oracle, the challenger. Well, we would be, were it not that for the second time the opening race has been postponed, first on [...]

Connected objects need a complete platform

When you build it, and they don’t come, there’s something wrong in the technology field. Especially if you are Apple, and you have announced that third parties can provide add-on hardware components to the iPhone, and after almost a year, there are very few of these on the market. Wired’s Gadgetlab reports on the the [...]

Check out what the WideTag Social Energy Meter is about with this interactive demo

The Widetag Social Energy Meter brings social objects, and the Internet Of Things to better understand the impact of our individual behavior on issues like the environment, and global warming. Until it is widely available as an easily deployable consumer gadget, it will be helpful to refer to the interactive demonstration site we developed, [...]

WideNoise in Top 10 Internet Of Things Products Of 2009

The emergence of a new meme is not linear, and it does not proceed in a constant fashion, from being a niche thought, to a mainstream one. This is also the case of the Internet Of Things, which—while not breaking through to mainstream status yet, for sure—gained a lot of visibility during 2009. And [...]

The User Experience Of Social Objects

Leandro Agro, CEO of WideTag, is a keynote speaker today at the UXconference 2009 in Lugano, Switzerland, organized by SketchIn.
In his speech, Lee is going to talk about our view that the User Experience today goes way beyond what is enclosed in the frame of a monitor, or even what the mobile devices bring. Thanks [...]

A very active audience!

Our lecture on the Internet Of Things, and Spime Design Workshop at the Singularity University went very well. The lecture was among the few open to the public, and give that it was held before the security gates at NASA Ames Research Center, people didn’t hesitate to sign up and come to attend, learning about [...]

Workshop at the Singularity University

Our Spime Design Workshop format is becoming fairly popular, with events being held more and more frequently both online, and at corporations, or conferences. We are very much looking forward to the next one which is being delivered at the Singularity University.

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The Singularity University aims to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre [...]

Speaking at CISCO Live! about sensor networks

Today at 2.45 PM PST we will be speaking at CISCO Live! about sensor networks, and their applications together with Adam Dunkels, and Jean Philippe Vasseur.
Some of the issues that we plan to touch, in the panel session moderated by John Jainschigg are:

What are sensor networks and what are they used for?
What is their state [...]

WideSpime for the 33rd America’s Cup with Green Comm Challenge!

Do you like sailing? Me too!
That’s why we are so excited that at the world’s premier sailing event, the 33rd America’s Cup we’ll have the chance to lend a hand and deploy the massive data collection capabilities of WideSpime with Green Comm Challenge. It is still a long road until the races*, but [...]