The second edition of our book Understanding the Connected Home is out. Peter Bihr and I fully revised and updated this edition. It’s both broader and deeper and reflects our thinking around connected homes and smart homes, IoT and ethics, and some other related fields….
Cross-posted on Mozilla’s Leadership Network blog Tomorrow’s Internet is going to be everywhere. Connectivity will be embedded in your transportation, your home, your places of learning and work, your clothing and probably even in your skin. It is estimated that by 2020, 41 billion devices…
Last week, over a thousand designers braved the Nordic winter and met in Helsinki’s Finlandia Hall. They had come together for Interaction 16, an annual event about what is happening in design and technology. I was keen to tag along. While I’m very far from…
The Unbox Caravan offered a space for us to reflect on the ethics of what we make. Many of us were interested in the Internet of Things as an emerging field where questions about privacy, security, openness and more will be teased out. For this…
Open the book to turn on the light. Bring temporary connectivity to everyday objects using simple circuits. Apply to other objects as desired. This project was borne from the question: can we bring simple internet connectivity to the “dumb” things we already have? And if…