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Nike-iPod Sport Kit Withings WiFi Body Scale

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Every runner can monitor and share his performance just using the Nike+iPod Sport Kit.

We can share our weight on social network just using a connected body scale like Withings.

We can monitor and tweet sound pollution usign a simple iPhone + WideNoise App (still free on App Store) (full disclosure: I’m involved with WideTag Inc.).

On a recent post related to Dash7 I’ve talked about how smartphone enabled by Dash7 will give us a wide business opportunity, just thinking about the emergent LBS services.

Here we can listen Tim O’Reilly talking about the Internet of Things last week at MySQL Conference.

I’m driving down a street and I pass a smart poster pasted onto a building wall. This elicits a beep from my phone, because my phone has passively scanned the poster and discovered something that I want to be notified about (I’ve opted into receiving notifications only about certain things). Because it’s against the law where I live to check my mobile phone while driving, I wait till I’m parked and then I check what the beep was for. Turns out that one of my favorite bands is playing in the city tomorrow night! The smart poster I’d driven past was an advertisement for that band. So I then proceed to book a ticket, using my phone of course.

(source: What’s Next For Mobile Apps? )

I’m just thinking about a Dash7 App for self-broadcasting FuoriSalone events here on Milan.

This scenario will be driven by Dash7 app based on WideSpime infrastructure (disclaimer: I’m involved with WideTag Inc.)

WideSpime enables the rapid and scalable development of dependable solutions based on Social Hardware and services.

WideSPIME is a fault-tolerant, distributed and high-concurrency environment for building applications that can take advantage of existing cloud architectures. Its horizontal scaling and entrypoint independence allows the design of applications fully taking advantage of modern hardware architectures.

Dash7 is a wireless sensor networking standard that may play an important part in next-generation mobile services – including location-based services, the Internet of Things and social networking.

DASH7 has a range of hundreds of meters and can be used while on the move.

Communication between two DASH7-compatible devices occurs when they are brought within approximately 300 feet of one another and a wireless “hand shake” is initiated by one or both devices. The underlying layers of DASH7 technology follow the globally implemented ISO 18000-7 standard. DASH7 can be used with a variety of devices, from stand-alone DASH7 “tags” that monitor goods flowing through an electronic company’s worldwide supply chain from China to Texas, to mobile phones that allow consumers to monitor the energy usage in their own home. The possibilities are endless, and DASH7 is sure to take the complexities out of today’s increasingly sophisticated “machine-to-machine” wireless landscape and make them simpler to use.

(source: Dash7 Technology)

The WideTag Social Energy Meter allows the realtime monitoring, and collaborative management, of energy usage in households, and businesses, through an innovative suite of hardware and software platforms.

(disclaimer: I’m involved with WideTag Inc )

Behavior Model BJ Fogg

if users are not performing a target behavior, such as rating hotels on a travel web site, the FBM helps designers see what psychological element is lacking. …

… The FBM highlights three principal elements, each of which has subcomponents. Specifically, the FBM outlines three Core Motivators (Motivation), six Simplicity Factors (Ability), and three type of Triggers. The subcomponents define the larger elements.
(source: behaviormodel.org – BJ Fogg)

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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 )

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.

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)