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The Internet of Things: What is a Spime and why is it useful?

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Lost your mbile phone, no problem! use Spimes.

 

Lost your Car keys, no problem! use Spimes.

 

Can’t find your teenage kid, no problem! use Spimes.

 

What is Spimes?

 

well according to World-renowned Science Fiction writer and futurist Bruce Sterling:

 

“SPIMES, a form of ubiquitous computing that gives smarts and ’searchabiliity’ to even the most mundane of physical products.”

 

Imagine losing your car keys and being able to search for them with Google Earth.

 

This same paradigm will find you “wrangling” with product-lifecycle- management systems that do for physical objects what the iPod has done for music. These and other radical ideas are delivered in Sterling’s latest book`Shaping Things’. This concise book was written to inspire designers to visualize radical scenarios connecting information technology and sustainability in a new ecology of artifacts. Sterling suggests new connections between the virtual world and the physical world that will have you rethinking many of your assumptions about how we relate to products.

 

He will be joined by Scott Klinker, 3-D Designer-in-Residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI who leads a graduate design program known for giving form to experimental cultural ideas. Klinker’s own design work focuses on digital customization as industry shifts from mass production toward niche production in a networked society.

 

The presentation will include an invitation for Sterlling and Klinker/ Cranbrook to team-up with Google to create a short documentary film that would portray a speculative future of life with SPIMES. Distributed online, this short film would convey the look and feel of SPIME scenarios as a provocation for widespread industry discussion about the new potentials of ubiquitous, ambient, searchable, geolocative products.

 

That was part of Google Tech Talks april 30, 2007

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