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The Good Night Lamp project is a family of lamps which allow people to communicate the act of coming back home to their loved ones, remotely. As you turn the bigger light on, your presence home is indicated to your friends whose smaller lamps turn on as well. Inversely, the smaller lamps that you’ve collected from your friends will turn on/off as they come home, go out, go to bed. You’ll never come back to an empty home again.

Precious’ brain is an on-board device that captures all of his experiences, combined with a cloud-based system that analyzes those experiences. Put this all together and get a bike that’s able to express itself in his own words.

Frameworks for Citizen Responsiveness: Towards a Read/Write Urbanism

“We can begin to treat urban environments as system resources, rather than a mute collection of disarticulated buildings, vehicles, sewers and sidewalks.”

Itizen lets you tell, share and follow the “life stories” of keepsakes, gifts and interesting things. Put an Itizen TRACKit Tag on the thing that you’re giving as a gift, selling or just passing along to someone. Tell a story about who made it, how it was made, what makes it special to you — anything that the person who gets it should know. As things pass from person to person, their stories grow and they become not only more interesting, but more meaningful and valuable.

Pingo is an interactive companion who keeps you entertained. Even when you’re not at your computer, Pingo connects you to your favorite websites in a wildly fun and engaging way.

Announces emails and messages from friends
Reads aloud up-to-the minute news, weather and markets via RSS
Responds to your voice commands
Zooms, roams, rolls around your desk
Interacts with other Pingo owners through our Facebook app
Connects you to your favorite websites even when the browser is off

API FOR THE WORLD

With a small bit of software and a tiny physical device any object with a power cord can become a networked object and connected to the web. It’s part of an effort to fill the gap between “smart” and low-tech devices. For eample a desk lamp could order itself new lightbulbs, or a Refrigerator could alert you to pick up milk in your car on your way home. The team behind this is calling it a “social network for everyday objects” because you can use an online dashboard to create unique profiles for different objects in your house and connect them to a variety of web services. Another term used to describe this kind of thing is the “internet of things”.