I love data – part 3
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Bay Area, Gadgets, Personal, Ubiquitous computing | No Comments »I noticed tonight that the GPS error on my running watch means that when I look at the data in aggregate, it creates quite a nice heat map of my favourite runs. I might try and figure out a way to ...
I love data – part 2
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Gadgets, Travel, Ubiquitous computing | No Comments »Recently I took my Garmin Forerunner GPS watch with me and left it switched on while I had a helicopter ride with Sundance Helicopters to visit the Grand Canyon. Exporting the data to Google Earth allows me to recreate in ...
Real World Ubiquitous Computing – Skype Video Calls
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Gadgets, Ubiquitous computing | No Comments »There are few people who would count Skype as ubiquitous computing. However I've found it is not the technology that defines ubiquitous computing, but how it is applied. Since I moved to the US I've really enjoyed having a Skype phone ...
Real World Ubiquitous Computing – Nike Plus
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Design, Gadgets, Ubiquitous computing | No Comments »For all the doom and gloom about the lack of real world ubiquitous computing (even I was guilty of it in my thesis), if you look around there are devices that support ubiquitous computing ideals. And I'm not talking ...
Ubiquitous computing done right
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Design, Gadgets, Ubiquitous computing | No Comments »I was happily surprised when I saw this video. I was sent it by Miles, and I think it is an outstanding example of ubiquitous computing. Amazingly it's also several years old now, and part of Johnny Lee's work at ...
