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A location-aware, mobile communication system that delivers timely, travel condition-related information to the mobile user. How many times have you gone to the grocery store but left the shopping list on the fridge door? Wouldn't it make more sense to have the list delivered to you when you were about to drive by the store?
Tagged: / MIT Media Laboratory
Wi-Fi's "Cauldron of Innovation"
For years, the use of wireless has been very controlled. You had companies that bought spectrum space, you had cell-phone companies that sold handsets, but there was very little opportunity to get the innovation that comes from getting a large number of people to work at finding different ways to use wireless technology. Wi-Fi gives you that. You can create a network, design applications, and build a business without having to hire Washington lawyers to do it.
Tagged: / Business Week By: David Farber
GoGo
GoGo is a toolkit that provides a simple interface for a computer to interact with its surrounding environment. The key feature of the GoGo kit is a multi-node mid-range wireless communication system. The tool kit can be programmed to remotely read/monitor sensors and control electronic devices. The goal is to enable new possibilities in community learning centers, schools, and other learning environments where learning activities are built upon local interest and resources.
Tagged: / MIT Media Laboratory
NearMe
The "NearMe" service is a location based buddy list service for GSM phones. NearMe integrates a buddy list with cell based proximity information from the cell phone. The service notifies a user when his buddies are "near by" using cell location information, the contact list on the cell phone, SMS messaging. Using NearMe it is very easy for a person to contact "friends" that are in their proximity.
Tagged: / Microsoft Research, Social Computing Group
Tollbooth Technology Meets the Checkout Lane
RFID systems are much faster than other types of payment. There is no fumbling through a wallet, no punching in personal identification numbers, no signatures — and, most certainly, no Web browsing. All that is needed is a tiny device called a transponder that might hang on a customer's key chain and is waved in front of an electronic reader like a magic wand.
Tagged: / New York Times
Whisper
Security will be more important than ever in the coming world of ubiquitous wireless devices and ad-hoc networks. We are developing novel approaches to security in this world that emphasize ease of use as the primary goal.
Tagged: / Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Impulse
In this research project we explore a scenario in which e-commerce meets "brick-and-mortar" commerce through a system of buying and selling agents (representing individual consumers and retailers respectively) that engages in multi-parameter negotiation and runs on wireless mobile devices. Agents representing well-informed consumers and participating merchants meet one-to-one, on equal footing, to seek agreement on the terms of a consumer purchase.
Tagged: / MIT Media Laboratory
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