Pinboard: bookmarks for urbanscale tagged 'technology'

The Strong, Weak, Open and Transparent

Very nice account of different flavors of augmented reality. Note, of course, that I believe all of this to be wrongheaded — but the explanation beats any I've found elsewhere.

augmentedreality technology optics urbancomputing
june 2011 by Urbanscale

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Shot Note

"Shot Note is a notepad for storing hand written notes in a digital format. The iPhone app recognises the fiduciary markers on the corner of the pad and corrects the perspective, colour and scale to fit the iPhone screen perfectly."

papernet iphone mobile paper design graphic technology
march 2011 by Urbanscale

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Co.Design: Sign of the Times: Camo That Outwits Facebook's Facial Recognition
via:mayonissen technology software code cv computervision
march 2011 by Urbanscale

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NYT: New Meter Is Said to Ease Parking, Once You Get Used to It (1999)
via:mayonissen parkingmeter parking nyc (nyc) citytickets moma technology history
march 2011 by Urbanscale

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NYT: Feed the Meter; See It Light Up (But Still Expire) (1996)

"the next frontier may be forged by a hacker determined to trip up the electronic meters, which are not foolproof."

via:mayonissen parkingmeter technology networked ubicomp
march 2011 by Urbanscale

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Cisco instal·larà un laboratori d'alta tecnologia urbana a Barcelona
via:mayonissen barcelona cisco smartcities technology spain city urbanism at22
february 2011 by Urbanscale

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McKinsey - What Matters: Talking back to your intelligent city
via:mayonissen cities smartcities urbanism urbanplanning technology dystopia politics
february 2011 by Urbanscale

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Copenhagenize.com - Building Better Bicycle Cultures: LED Lane Lights for Cyclists and Motorists
via:mayonissen copenhagen cycling technology ubicomp sensor urban urbancomputing
january 2011 by Urbanscale

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BBC News - South Africa thieves hit traffic lights for Sim cards

"smart"

via:mayonissen ubicomp technology traffic streets cities
january 2011 by Urbanscale

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Technology and the City - Reading List | Serial Consign

excellent reading list.

via:mayonissen books cities urbanism academic technology
january 2011 by Urbanscale

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YouTube - Songdo City - Cisco Connected City

corporate utopia/dystopia/myopia at its best.

via:mayonissen cisco songdo urbanism cities technology ubicomp marketing video smartcities rhetoric korea
january 2011 by Urbanscale

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Fast Company: Building a Smarter Favela: IBM Signs Up Rio
cities urbanism ibm technology data brazil via:mayonissen
january 2011 by Urbanscale

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Drexel University mCenter

Center for Mobilities Research and Policy: awwww yeah.

mobility technology philly
april 2010 by Urbanscale

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NYT: New York Cabs Gouged Riders Out of Millions

(Note how this was discovered.)

(nyc) taxis crime technology gps datamining
march 2010 by Urbanscale

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MetaFilter comment: Signs: The most useful thing you pay no attention to

Mostly just a note to self to follow up with this poster - it looks like data here to support an assertion I've been making for years, and which is vital to my book. Every extension is also an amputation.

gps mapping technology wayfinding wayshowing
march 2010 by Urbanscale

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dConstruct 2009: Elements of a Networked Urbanism

A heroic transcription of the talk I gave in Brighton last year. While revealing all my tics and weaknesses as a speaker, it's nonetheless not a bad effort.

urbanism urbancomputing urbanplanning urbansystemsdesign cities infrastructure transit technology economics surveillance publicspace interactiondesign
february 2010 by Urbanscale

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NYT: Microsoft’s Creative Destruction

"[T]he company routinely manages to frustrate the efforts of its visionary thinkers."

business technology "innovation" microsoft
february 2010 by Urbanscale

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NYT: Advances in Sensor-Based Computing Bring ‘Smart Dust’ Closer

Fie on this article for not mentioning Pachube! Ahyu!

technology rfid power sensors
january 2010 by Urbanscale

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NYT: At Sony, a New Plan to Link Entertainment and Devices

God, this all smells so depressingly familiar. A refreshingly skeptical - almost arch - tone in this business reporting from the Times, which refuses to take Stringer's bromides at face value.

sony technology designingdesign business knowyourenemy
december 2009 by Urbanscale

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Map Kibera

And, completely coincidentally: "Kibera, widely known as Africa's largest slum, remains a blank spot on the map. Without basic knowledge of the geography of Kibera it is impossible to have an informed discussion on how to improve the lives of residents of Kibera. Young Kiberans will create the first public digital map of Kibera." Via Migurski.

kibera nairobi mapping space politics technology geography slums
november 2009 by Urbanscale

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Resisting Representation: The Informal Geographies of Rio de Janiero

Daniela Fabricius on Rio's favela archipelago and the various strategies used to return it to the map. Via Mario.

brazil rio space mapping geography politics technology slums infrastructure networks
november 2009 by Urbanscale

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Wi-Fi Alliance: Wi-Fi Direct

Good news, everyone! Peer-to-peer ad hoc connections are in the offing at long last; kiss Bluetooth goodbye.

networks technology engineering enablers ambient
october 2009 by Urbanscale

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AppleInsider: Microsoft's Sidekick/Pink problems blamed on dogfooding and sabotage

Utterly fascinating, if you can get through the thicket of jargon and geekspeak: a vivid and pungent cautionary tale about the cloud.

ubicomp FAIL knowyourenemy business technology
october 2009 by Urbanscale

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Digital Cities: Words on the street

My piece in this month's "Wired UK." It's not exactly the piece I wrote, but oh well.

urbancomputing technology
october 2009 by Urbanscale

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Zeitgeist week '09

If you happen to be in NYC or London next week, there's an imperial god-tonne of amazing stuff going on. I dumped all my links in one post for easy reference. Enjoy!

(nyc) london brooklyn urbanism urbancomputing architecture conferences conflux sidewalking psychogeography technology yes againyes
september 2009 by Urbanscale

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YouTube: UAV remote ground control operations

Russell showed this wildly disturbing video yesterday. It's a simulation, but let's be crystal clear that what is depicted is an act of murder.

war technology space speed sigh lifeduringwartime
september 2009 by Urbanscale

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YouTube: CES 2008: Powercast Wireless Power

I shall no longer carry my iPhone in my pocket.

technology
may 2009 by Urbanscale

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NYT: Mistrial by iPhone: Juries' Web Research Upends Trials
law technology ubicomp everyware
march 2009 by Urbanscale

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The Demon-Haunted World

It's all right here. Double - no: triple - HOOAH.

mattjones cities urbancomputing ubicomp everyware technology yesterday'stomorrows archigram lessitus bookproject yes againyes
february 2009 by Urbanscale

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Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work

So true, so very very true. I haven't laughed or cried this hard in a long time.

technology sony butnotjustsonyifyouknowwhatimeanandithinkyoudo
february 2009 by Urbanscale

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CYBERDYNE

Making the rounds, got to be a joke. And a product called HAL, yet!!

bad cyberdyne technology tsukuba wtf HAL
april 2008 by Urbanscale

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BECTA: Emerging Technologies for Learning

Uh...me, actually, on approaches to context- and location-aware educational technology, for the UK gov't. Cites area/code, otherwise recapitulates many "Everyware" arguments. Enjoy.

education learning technology location ubicomp everyware
april 2008 by Urbanscale

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Greg Smithsimon: Technologies of Public Space

Dates to 1999. Prescient, mostly sadly so.

publicspace defensivespace technology bookproject
january 2008 by Urbanscale

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It’s a clean machine!: Is my software good software?

Very nice thinking here, ties together a lot of threads I'm interested it. Deeelighted to see thought like this in the software domain, so rarely interested in the outside.

design software technology noise networks dieterrams vitsœ
january 2008 by Urbanscale

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Alex Pang: Word spacing, silent reading, and cyborgs

Then again, "tragedy was a technology the Greeks developed to help them get over the pain the alphabet caused them."

language literacy history technology
december 2007 by Urbanscale

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Defense Review: Unmanned Mini-Helicopter Gets 'Weaponized' with AA-12 Shotgun

Humanity must have a death wish, is all I'm going to say about this.

military technology guns interestingtimes
november 2007 by Urbanscale

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Ford Vehicles: SYNC Up Your Ford Lincoln and Mercury

"Powered by Microsoft" are not the words you want to hear in this context. BSOD, LOL.