Michael and Michael start off this episode with a ready to weAR t-shirt from Curiscope, that displays the wearer’s heart rate in addition to a representation of heart & other organs in the torso. This leads to a conversation on what more could be done in a hospital setting, to allow for a visualization for the medical professionals seeing & absorbing data about their patients in a new way. Continuing the fashion theme, the team turns to the reward structure that Tommy Hilfiger is building into the Xplore line, with embedded IoT chipset & companion app to reward influencers for … Continue reading →
Michael and Michael get back together to talk about the latest smart home news, starting with the Amazon acquisition of Ring. The pair speculate on what this level of integration in the Amazon ecosystem could bring — everything from delivery verification, to drone delivery enablement to package recipient identification. Mobile apps captured their attention with location-based & experience-driven marketing as well as with augmented reality. Augmented reality also features in this week’s episode in the form of a motorcycle helmet prototype and the upcoming Ghostbusters mobile game. What do you think will be the next big thing in IoT? … Continue reading →
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In this episode, so soon after the recent US election, Phaedra & Michael M discuss the nature of civic engagement, and how the model of open source software could lend itself to bringing more people into the civic process. Showing up is always the first step, and the model for commits made to open source software could be applied to policy, whereby contributions by citizens could be upvoited or downvoted for inclusion in emerging policy. The pair bring up the idea of cities with personality — if you’re in Chicago, you know how that city’s personality was expressed after the … Continue reading →