Monthly Archives: August 2004
722 Miles: The Building of the Subways …
“722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York” (Clifton Hood) Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801852447; Reprint edition © 1995.A great read about the history of the New York City subway system. Also an excellent analysis of the political and technical difficulties of building a complex network. Continue reading
Parasitic Computing
From the site:”Parasitic computing is an example of a potential technology that could be viewed simultaneously as a threat or healthy addition to the online universe…. These protocols can be exploited to compute with the communication infrastructure, transforming the Internet into a distributed computer in which servers unwittingly perform computation on behalf of a remote node. Continue reading
A few Remote Display/Remote Data Projects
Window display driven by SMS messaging by IDEO TopTrack – identifies any song played at a volume loud enough to be picked up by the cell phone” target=”_other”>Blinkenlights – Architectural scale display using a cell phone to control display on the side of a building.The Internet Plug – a net-controlled AC relayCeiva’s net-connected picture framesSelf-Healing MinefieldsRadio taxi-artBitTaxi – The Bureau of Inverse Technology pubished data on how to reverse-engineer interactive taxi advertising banners…. More info is available on the BitTaxi wiki. Continue reading