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5G Network Rollout Expected to Stir Things Up

5G Network Rollout Expected to Stir Things Up

Three point three billions. This is the amount of smartphone users around the world for the year 2019 (Statistica). For the following two years, the expected amount of users is to reach 3.5 and 3.8 billions (Statistica). Among what makes...
By Romane Donadini on 09/20/19 Comments Off on 5G Network Rollout Expected to Stir Things Up
The Zero UI Music Player

The Zero UI Music Player

One of the most iconic computers in cinema is certainly HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s epos 2001: A Space Odyssey. With all inner workings hidden beneath a red light in a camera lens, the mischievous A.I. created an eerie atmosphere...
By Frederic Vosseberg on 09/23/18 Comments Off on The Zero UI Music Player
Where does your data go? Mapping the data flow of Nest

Where does your data go? Mapping the data flow of Nest

Introduction With this research project, we set out to investigate the volume of data created and shared from smart home devices. Intrigued by the claim that our homes are getting smarter and more connected, we aimed to find out...
By Aimee Dirkzwager on 10/25/17 Comments Off on Where does your data go? Mapping the data flow of Nest
The Brain’s Introduction to the Internet of Things (For Neuromancer)

The Brain’s Introduction to the Internet of Things (For Neuromancer)

The Brain Logs On Our technological culture too often takes its standard of development to be “marginally better consumer gadgetry” (Williams & Srnicek).  It takes some effort to puncture the hype and discern what are the leaps and bounds...
By Anon on 09/25/17 Comments Off on The Brain’s Introduction to the Internet of Things (For Neuromancer)
Should you be worried by a networked street light?

Should you be worried by a networked street light?

This summer something remarkable happened in Amsterdam, in six weeks time an open source network was installed that covers an area encompassing the city center and beyond: The Things Network. This was done with a new networking technology –...
By Charlie Vielvoye on 09/17/15 Comments Off on Should you be worried by a networked street light?
Will SCiO be the Google of Physical Objects?

Will SCiO be the Google of Physical Objects?

How many calories are in the cake you are eating? Does that medicine contain caffeine? Is your shirt really 100% cotton? SCiO, A small new sensor, molecularly scans objects and instantly displays their nutritional or chemical make-up on your smartphone. Will SCiO change...
By Gali Ronen on 09/17/14 Comments Off on Will SCiO be the Google of Physical Objects?
The Knight’s Move: Mark Shepard and the Sentient City

The Knight’s Move: Mark Shepard and the Sentient City

I received an e-mail in my inbox. Mark Shepard was coming to The Hague for a lecture on the sentient city. It was part of a lecture series called The Knight’s Move, which aims on cutting across disciplines and...
By Bree Tahapary on 10/29/11 1
App review: Sleep as an droid. Or as a cyborg?

App review: Sleep as an droid. Or as a cyborg?

I love to sleep. So much that waking up early on Monday for morning classes is a hard and laborious task. I always set my alarm clock about half an hour early to compensate for the time spent snoozing...
By Renoud Netjes on 10/12/11 1
Let’s talk iPhone? App-so-lutely!

Let’s talk iPhone? App-so-lutely!

The iPhone 4S In the advent of the “Let’s Talk iPhone” event, people were already looking for tutorials  in order to sync and back up all of the various apps they have gathered from the moment they “went apple,”...
By Jeroen Rijskamp on 10/05/11 Comments Off on Let’s talk iPhone? App-so-lutely!

A(n Ever)note from the train

There’s something remarkable about the interaction between man and machine (and vice versa). Marshall McLuhan and Raymond Williams both had their own view in this classic debate about the social shaping of technology versus the technological shaping of society....
By Bree Tahapary on 09/14/11 1
New Media Shaping of Perception and the New Space of the Body

New Media Shaping of Perception and the New Space of the Body

The past few months I have been working on my master thesis. The aim of this thesis was to research human perception of space and of time, as well as of the body, and how digital new media have...
By Marta Colpani on 09/05/10 Comments Off on New Media Shaping of Perception and the New Space of the Body

New Media Protocols and the Artist (Rasing his Voice?)

In my research paper – which I will be writing the next two months, I want to deepen the discussion around new media art and its relation to political and social engagement. While net.art has always taken a very...
By Marta Colpani on 10/24/09 Comments Off on New Media Protocols and the Artist (Rasing his Voice?)

Internet of things book presentation at the Waag

Internet of things book presentation by Rob van Kranenburg. 28th of october, Theatrum Anatomicum, the Waag, Amsterdam intro by Geert Lovink (INC). The full publication can be found here (thanks jaromil for bringing this to my attention) (a camera...
By Tjerk Timan on 10/28/08 9

Lecture on Spimes at the TU/e

Bruce Sterling lectured at the Technical University of Eindhoven this afternoon about the status of and internet of things. The introduction is given by Koert van Mensvoort. Koert starts by wondering what it means to live in an information...
By Tjerk Timan on 10/17/08 Comments Off on Lecture on Spimes at the TU/e