Internet of Things - Top 10 in 2009

iobridge is a module helps bridge the gap between the physical world and WWW.
SenseAware is a multi-sensor devices used in FedEx shipment to monitor in-transit conditions in near real time.
more products can be find here.

A day in the Internet

Created by Online Education

G-speak, spatial os environment

Oblong industry is the developer of the spatial os environment used in Minority Report movie.

Artvertisor

The Artvertiser is an urban, hand-held, augmented-reality project exploring on-site substitution of advertising content for the purposes of exhibiting art.

Top-ranked authors in Human-Computer Interaction

Here is a link about the top-ranked authors in HCI.

Thomas Robert

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-Lord Thomas Robert

Buildings as a new (ambient) displays

By 3d projection on buildings wall, they can be used a (ambient) display. This new type of display can be used for new way of information visualization and communication.

Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Digital Media on Vimeo.

How to write IEEE paper?

Beagleboard accessories

Remember if you plan to get a beagleboard and use is for your project DO NOT forget to buy its accessories, as it needs some special ones.
Check here for more details.

Higher Education-QS World University Rankings

Two universities ranking list:

• Times Higher Education: RWTH Aachen is ranked 182
• TopUniversities.com: RWTH Aachen is ranked with Polytechnic University of Milan 57

Wireless electricity

Randy Pausch

Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.

Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.

Until you got ice cream spilled on you, you’re not doing field work.

BookMooch: a book-based community

BookMooch is a community for exchanging the used books.

Touchless: a multi-touch SDK

Touchless SDK is a SDK for creating multi-touch applications by using a webcam for input. The interaction is based on objects'colors detection.

Anoto: a digital ballpoint pen

Anoto Digital Pen is a digital pen records everything written or drawn with the pen digitally on papers include special non-repeating pattern. The pen contains an integrated digital camera, an advanced image microprocessor, and a Bluetooth module for wireless connections. While using the pen, the digital snaps shoots of the pattern on the paper contains enough data to determine the exact position of the pen and what it writes or draws.

Beagleboard: linux-based PCB

Beagleboard is a USB-powered PCB that can be used as a micro computer with enough features. Different operating systems such as Ubuntu, Android, Symbian, and Debian can be installed on this board. In comparison with the other board I posted in this bog, this one is cheaper and faster (up to 600 MHZ).

Context-aware clock

Whereabouts clock is a context-aware clock shows the location of a family members. The same concept can be found in Harry Potter movie. Related publication can be found here.

NanoXML for mobile phones

In case if you want to use XML on the mobile phones (JAVA ME), NanoXML is a good option.

Siftable: Cookie-sized computers

Siftables are cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication.

Different mouse technologies

Logic simulator

Here are couple of PLC logic simulators:
plc-course.com
DigSim
Tetzl
Logic Circuit

360 ° stereoscopic display

Find location via IP

Loki is a browser plugin that determines the precise location of website visitors.

Touchatag - RFID tag

Touchatag is a RFID/NFC tag can be use to create contactless barcode applications.

MobileActive.org

MobileActive.org is a community includes grassroots activists, NGO staff, intermediary organizations, content and service providers, and organizations who fund mobile technology projects. It is a notwork of people using mobile technology for social impact and contains useful statistics.

Pachube - Interent of Things

Pachube is a web service that enables users to store, share & discover realtime sensor, energy and environment data from objects, devices & buildings around the world.

A presentation tool

I found Perzi, a web-based presentation tool, interesting and can be used for creating presentation on web pages.

CellID database

OpenCellID is a database includes GSM cell IDs and their location. With using this database the cell ID can be converted to a geo-location.

Appcelerator

With Appcelerator developers can build applications with native UI elements, devices storage, and native geo-location APIs use javascript, HTML, and CSS on the iPhone and Android.

Crowd sources maps and traffic updates

Waze is a mobile app that enables drivers to build and use live maps, real-time traffic updates and turn-by-turn navigation for an optimal commute. It uses the power of the crowd to build the database. Google mobile map also uses the data provided by the crowd to generate the traffic updtes. Roadee is another application based on OpenStreetmap.

Augmented reality on mobile phones

Some videos about augmented reality on mobile phones

Location-based augmented reality on mobile phones

Currently location-based augmented reality on mobile phones is a hot topic. Here are some examples I found:

• Wikitude is a mobile guide with augmented reality functionality which draws displays information from various data sources, including: Wikipedia, Qype and Panoramio, and Wikitude.me.
  
• Layar is a mobile phone application, which shows what is around the user by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of the mobile phone.
  
• robotvision uses the accelerometer and compass technology of the iPhone 3GS and lets users discover content and locations around them.
  
• Where Mark
• Junaio

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If you know any other examples, please write them in the comment.

Travel recommnedation communities

• Joobili is an event-based travel recommendation system where users enter their desired travel dates, country of travel and interests. From here the Joobili community suggests a variety of events with a map view of the results.
  
• TripSay is a crowd sourced tips, which lets the users to share information about the places they go and why they recommend their friends go there.
• Others: Nextstop, I Want To Go There

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If you know or use any other systems, please add it in the comment.

Manage and organize a paper's bibliography

I was looking for a good software to organize the bibliography of the papers I write. I found a good overview here: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BIOS/refman.html
Here are two softwares:

• Mendeley Desktop is a software that indexes and organizes PDF documents and research papers into apersonal digital bibliography.
  

• Zetero is a Firefox extension to manage and organize a research resources.

WigetPad

WidgetPad is a collaborative development environment for developing stand-alone and downloadable SmartPhone applications in HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript.

Create comics to explain senarios.

Bitstrips is a web-based comic builder which can be used in explaining scenarios. For more information please check http://www.bitstrips.com/.

Add a live chat to your website

Olark gives you this opportunity to add a simple chat to any website. Check more information here: http://www.olark.com.

FOX Board a PCB includes a Linux system

Fox board is a PCB board runs Linux os on an ETRAX microprocessor. This can be useful for creating light Linux-based applications as the it has just 8M Flash and 32M RAM. Check more information here: http://foxlx.acmesystems.it/.