Great addition to the already great Dopplr tool. Am just about to expend the significant part of this years carbon footprint...

• Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City
  An exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous/pervasive computing and urban architecture - SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 27, 2008
  (tags: architecture competition ubiquitouscomputing)
• Arduino playground - DMX
  DMX512 - DMX512 (Digital MultipleXed) is an agreement over the connection between lighting controllers, dimmers,scrollers, scanners, etc.. base page for workshop info
  (tags: dmx arduino lighting)
• Welcome to Weather Underground : Weather Underground
  Weather RSS feeds in half hour periods.
  (tags: weather seewatt)
• tinker.it : Interactive Light
  Interactive Light - DMX Receiver Documentation (beta) Tinker.it DMX PWM converter Code Examples We're going to be using the Tinker.it DMX shield for arduino to generate DMX signals
  (tags: arduino dmx lighting)

• Process Trends Website
  Data Analysis and Visualization with Excel, R and Google Tools Analysis, Chart and Map Tools to Better Understand Our Data
  (tags: excel visualization)

• flare | visualization on the web
  Flare is a collection of ActionScript 3 classes for building a wide variety of interactive visualizations.
  (tags: flash actionscript flex visualization as3)

• Walking with Robots
  Walking with Robots is a three-year programme of public events funded by the EPSRC that aims to address: What is a Robot? What do we want robots to do in the future? What can they do now? Can robots have personalities?...
  (tags: convergence robotics)

We have been working heads down for the past few months on a new EC FP7 project called SENSEI. The goal of SENSEI is to provide the real-time sensor and actuator dimension of next generation network and service infrastructures. Or as the project website puts it:

In order to realise the vision of Ambient Intelligence in a future network and service environment, heterogeneous wireless sensor and actuator networks (WS&AN) have to be integrated into a common framework of global scale and made available to services and applications via universal service interfaces. SENSEI creates an open, business driven architecture that fundamentally addresses the scalability problems for a large number of globally distributed WS&A devices. It provides necessary network and information management services to enable reliable and accurate context information retrieval and interaction with the physical environment. By adding mechanisms for accounting, security, privacy and trust it enables an open and secure market space for context-awareness and real world interaction.

The tangible outputs of the SENSEI project include:

1) plug and play architecture / protocol
2) open service interface
3) efficient WS&AN island solutions (targeting 5nJ/bit)
4) pan European test platform

Our focus has been on supporting the scenario development and hopefully over the next month or two I will post some the scenarios that we have been finding most interesting. The themes we have been focusing on include Smart City, Healthcare and Transport.

The project fits under Future Internet - ICT Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures

• Knowledge NBIC Project | The Project
  Sixth Framework EC, April 2006 - March 2009. The challenges raised by NBIC convergence call for renewed, informed and democratized knowledge politics. relevant to all concerned about the political, social and ethical implications of emerging technologies.
  (tags: convergence nbic nanotech biotech)
• Convergence Culture Henry Jenkins
  Convergence Culture Henry Jenkins ISBN 0814742815 336 pages Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)
  (tags: books convergence culture media)

• Twitter / andy_house
  data feed from house automation system to twitter - good example of using other peoples notification systems to get your data "out there" - i think there is a how to in Make Feb 2008
  (tags: twitter sensei pwte energy)
• Nanotechnology - Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies - April 2005
  helping ensure that as nanotechnologies advance, possible risks are minimized, public and consumer engagement remains strong + the potential of these new technologies are realized. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars / Pew Charitable Trusts
  (tags: convergence nanotech)
• New Nanotechnology Television Series Does “Sweat the Small Stuff”
  WASHINGTON - The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies and National Science Foundation will host the Washington, DC, premiere event for the television series “Nanotechnology: The Power of Small”
  (tags: convergence nanotech)

Watch Zainab Salbi as she shares her global efforts to transform the lives of women destroyed by war:

20 min Version http://www.poptech.org/popcasts/popcasts.aspx?lang=&viewcastid=198
Audio Only http://wmarc001.bcst.yahoo.com/yahoo/zainabsalbi.MP3

Watch Jonathan Harris share his work on mass storytelling. it is worth watching the 20 min version:

3 min Version http://www.poptech.org/popcasts/?viewcastid=202
20 min Version http://www.poptech.org/popcasts/popcasts.aspx?lang=&viewcastid=165
Audio Only http://wmarc001.bcst.yahoo.com/yahoo/harris.MP3