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The Platform

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 24th, 2008

So, here we are on your actual brink. My agency’s going to become a part of the military, I’ve got a president with his finger poised on the button, and you want me to walk across the park and tell him we want to hitch a ride with those very same Russians. Have I missed [...]

Street View 2.0

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 29th, 2008

Google Street View, the Beta version, is demoed in this video.

Free Cellular Service

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 24th, 2007

Marge: “Say, Lou, ya hear the one about the guy who couldn’t afford personalized license plates so he went and changed his name to J2L 4685?”
Lou: “Yah, that’s a good one.”
- Fargo

Free, free, everything free.
Fox, owned by media powerhouse News Corp., announced Monday it plans to launch new ad-supported mobile versions of its MySpace social [...]

Wireless River Monitoring

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 12th, 2007

The Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, a non-profit scientific research organization based in Beacon, NY, has teamed up with IBM and several other research groups to develop a high-tech environmental-monitoring system for the state’s Hudson River that would transform its 315 miles into an interconnected network of sensors.
The river’s biology and chemistry are [...]

Underwater MIMO

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 3rd, 2007

MIMO is going underwater, says PhysOrg. As the United States and Canada take their first step toward establishing a cabled ocean observatory, a University of Missouri-Rolla researcher is trying to improve the speed of wireless underwater communication using using Multiple Input - Multiple Output (wikipedia) acoustic hydrophones.
The same acoustic waves that dolphins and whales [...]

Commercializing Dataveillence

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 11th, 2007

“To HGW XX/7, with gratitude”. — The Lives of Others (interview)

Nonspheres IV (photos) takes the built shape of a digitally generated lattice which fills the entire gallery, suggesting a continuous yet remote set of relationships and talking about how the network-logic flattens space while spatializing politics, explains We Make Money Not Art.

This sensation is further [...]

Street View & Photosynth Head Home

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 7th, 2007

Street View, Google’s eye-level, panoramic sight-seeing map enhancement, has added four new cities: San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston and Orlando.

Simply go to one of these cities in Google Maps and click on the “StreetView” button. The new imagery was announced at the Google LatLong blog today.
Meanwhile, Microsoft announced that Microsoft and NASA have developed a [...]

Carnival Goes Wireless

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 7th, 2007

Firetide, a developer of wireless mesh networks, today announced that Ray Cammack Shows (RCS), one of the largest carnival midway companies in North America with 9 million annual visitors, has successfully deployed a Firetide network.
The Firetide network supports the entire operation of the enterprise, including real-time eTicketing, inventory management, and time card tracking for [...]

What Up at Where 2.0

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 29th, 2007

O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 is the third annual conference bringing together developments in the location industry. The Where 2.0 Conference News has podcasts. At O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference, 18 presentations where held over 2 hours, 6 launches and 12 Ignite talks, covering various aspect of the geo world.
Perhaps the biggest news was Google’s virtual walking [...]

iRobot Drafted

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 8th, 2007

iRobot and Boeing are teaming to develop a next-generation Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV).
Called SUGV Early and weighing less than 30 pounds, iRobot’s non-vacuum skills include remote reconnaissance and real-time intelligence. Images can be relayed in real time to field commanders from small unmanned aerial vehicles.
It’s based on PackBot, a series of robots [...]