Luca Perugini

Excited by the next rumored iPhone 4G’s feature, a RFID tag reader embedded, I’ve googled for “iphone hardware”.

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The touchscreen interface seems better suited to sweeping gestures than tapping ones, although programs like Bebot have implemented clever workarounds.

But with Apple opening up the iPhone’s dock connector to third parties, I wonder: Couldn’t a manufacturer develop a hardware music keyboard with an intelligent docking station? You’d slot in your iPhone and get a high-res screen, tactile controls, and all kinds of sound-making capabilities.

(source: A hardware Music Keyboard for the iPhone – O’Reilly – David Battino )

As reported by ReadWriteWeb, there’s rumor about the RFID reader feature of the next iPhone, the 4G’s.

So, it’s seems that the iPhone will be a platform for an huge different field: as a mobile self-payment system, or as chemical detector and as a RFID tag reader.

According to a number of believable blog reports, RFID is set to be a part of the as yet unannounced iPhone 4G. Apple holds a patent for a touch screen RFID tag reader and is said to be testing an RFID-enabled iPhone currently. So RFID could be a feature of the iPhone 4G as soon as Spring 2010.

(source: ReadWriteWeb – iPhone as RFID Tag & Reader: Coming Soon)

iPhone RFID: object-based media from timo on Vimeo.

Smart Meter may help CO2 reduction while puts you in control of your energy cost.
By 2015 something like 250 million smart meters will be installed worlwide.

According to a new report from Pike Research, more than 250 million smart meters will be installed worldwide by 2015, representing a penetration rate of 18% of all electrical meters by that time, up from 46 million in 2008.

(source: PikeResearch – Smart Meter Installation to Reach 250 Million Worldwide by 2015)

An interesting view of the growth and the trends of iPhone Apps on U.S. App Store, by Ben Lorica – O’Reilly Radar.

One crude measure for the relative complexity of developing apps across categories is to compare the number of apps per seller. The Top 5 categories in Nov/2009, were Books (17 apps per seller), Travel (6 apps per seller), Education (4 per seller), Reference and Sports (3 per seller). There were also 3 apps per seller in the Games and Entertainment categories in Nov/2009:

(source: Apps Per Seller Across the US iTunes Categories O’Reilly Radar)

As business developer of WideTag Inc. I’m proud of the WideNoise inclusion on the Top 10 Internet of Things Products of 2009.

The iPhone is a fertile ground for Internet of Things, as a product called WideNoise shows. WideNoise is an iPhone application that samples decibel noise levels, displaying them on an interactive map.With the app you can take a sound reading, and if you so wish share that with the WideNoise community. You can check the average sound level of the area around you, which might be handy if you’re house-hunting or simply looking for a quiet spot to relax in.
(source: Top 10 Internet of Things Products of 2009)

WideNoise

WideNoise

WideNoise is the iPhone and iPod Touch application that samples decibel noise levels, and displays them on a worldwide interactive map.

Noise is pollution as well

We live every day surrounded by all kinds of sound around us. We are accustomed to this background noise, but in the end we feel relieved when, maybe in a park, that stressful noise disappears. WideNoise helps you better understand the soundscape around you.
(source: WideNoise)

SquareUp presents a new gorgeous mobile self-payment system. Something like a mobile wallet, with you everywhere!

Swap you payment on SquareUp

• 0 to $60 in under 10 seconds.

  Start accepting payment cards immediately with Square. No contracts, monthly fees, or hidden costs. Effortlessly manage all the money you take with an easy and intuitive interface.

  Create a Square payer account to speed up and secure every payment. With photo verification, Square users can visually confirm you are the card holder.

• Swipe it.

  Read payment cards from any device with an audio input jack, including your mobile phone. Accepting payments has never been faster or more convenient.

• Pay quickly, securely.

  Create a Square payer account to speed up and secure every payment. With photo verification, Square users can visually confirm you are the card holder.

SquareUp (via Garry’s Posterous )

A 150$ Cisco Router, together their Flip video camera, will be a threat for Apple TV?

FlipShare TV

Cisco Systems, which acquired the Flip products in March, has come out with the FlipShare TV –- a set of products that helps people transfer their videos from a Flip camera to a PC and then to a television.

The FlipShare TV has three parts. First, there’s basically a small router that connects to a TV via composite cables (the red, white and yellow ones) or an HDMI cable for better quality. Then, there’s a USB stick that plugs into a home computer. Finally, there’s a remote control.

NYTimes: For $150, Cisco Router Will Play Flip Videos on Your TV

A Dream or a Nightmare?

Just an iPhone and a small Chemical Sensor to read your Health status… it’s so interesting and awesome!

The chemical sensing prototype plugged into an iPhone - Photo credit: Dominic Hart/NASA

Jing Li, a physical scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., along with other researchers working under the Cell-All program in the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate, developed a proof of concept of new technology that would bring compact, low-cost, low-power, high-speed nanosensor-based chemical sensing capabilities to cell phones.

The device Li developed is about the size of a postage stamp and is designed to be plugged in to an iPhone to collect, process and transmit sensor data.

The latest-generation of the chemical detector board, about the size of a postage stamp, sensing chip facing up. - Photo credit: Dominic Hart/NASA

Jing Li - NASA Ames - Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center

NASA Ames Scientist Develops Cell Phone Chemical Sensor via iPhoneMedicalApps

Do you have an Android Phone?
Well, with Google Sky Map for Android you can discover the Sky!

Tutto ha inizio un anno fa, 10 aprile 2008, dieci giorni dopo l’assegnazione dell’Expo2015 alla città di Milano.

Expo2015Camp: per un Expo partecipato

Giovedì, bisogna spostare la macchina, l’indomani c’è il mercato di zona. Mi accingo a spostare la macchina e trovo l’ennesimo ostacolo alla vita cittadina, delle barriere bloccano l’accesso al marciapiede, rifugio per disperati che fuggono al mercato del venerdì.

Durante l’affannosa ricerca di un luogo dove posteggiare l’autoveicolo, monta la rabbia e cresce la voglia di trovare una soluzione, una modalità per far sentire le esigenze di chi vive il quartiere, la città.

Da questo piccolo “incidente” di percorso, nasce l’idea del progetto Agenda Expo 2015.

Agenda Expo 2015, 6 anni per 6 mesi.

Il progetto Agenda Expo 2015 si pone diversi obiettivi:

• dal tracciare il cambiamento della città al creare spazi di interazione, confronto aperto, dove poter parlare di progettualità
• dal facilitare la partecipazione alle scelte che impattano la collettività, alla proposizione delle stesse.

Mentre il progetto Agenda Expo 2015 è in via di definizione, prende forma uno degli obiettivi, ovvero creare uno spazio di interazione, confronto aperto per poter parlare in modo propositivo, condividere idee, presentare progetti.

25  giugno 2009 Expo2015Camp la prima conferenza aperta inerente l’Expo2015.

Dall’idea di progetto al progetto dell’idee, il passaggio è sempre articolato e irto di ostacoli, ma le rete sociali (SNS, How to Hit the Enterprise 2.0 Bullseye, Andrew Macafee), i nuovi paradigmi di comunicazione (Skype, Twitter), rendono sormontabile qualsiasi ostacolo.

Da una prima telefonata del 24 aprile con Augusto Pirovano e Alberto Cottica, si è materializzato quanto teorizzato da Mark Granovetter in merito alla valenza delle connessioni deboli (Strength of Weak Ties, Mark Granovetter).
In breve tempo, si è materializzata una rete di 10/12 persone che, in un modo o in un altro, stanno contribuendo alla concretizzazione di quest’iniziativa, basandosi sulla semplice condivisione dell’idea sottostante.
Nessun team di lavoro, nessuna organizzazione.

“È l’era dei Social Network, bellezza. E tu non ci puoi fare niente. Niente!”
parafrasando Humphrey Bogart