I’m cleaning up all the open tabs for the holidays, so here are some nuggets I found that may or may not be interesting.
Enjoy.
Turkey Tweeter
Hinkmond Wong of the Java Embedded Technology team did a fun Thanksgiving project, a Turkey that tweets as it cooks.
It’s time for the Internet of Things (ioT) Thanksgiving Special. This time we are going to work on a special Do-It-Yourself project to create an Internet of Things temperature probe to connect your Turkey Day turkey to the Internet by writing a Thanksgiving Day Java Embedded app for your Raspberry Pi which will send out tweets as it cooks in your oven.
His DIY project, in six installments, is a fun read, h/t @rikang.
MIT’s Dynamic Shape Display
This is freaky cool and has enormous potential, h/t The Verge and Fast Company Design.
On Telepresence Robots
For reasons I can’t explain, I love robots. So, of course, Ars’ an in-depth review of Suitable Technologies‘ Beam telepresence robot caught my attention. We toyed with a similar idea, using the HEXBUG Spider XL, but it required a lot of hacking and other parts, namely a smartphone. I think the guys were just humoring me.
And Finally, Helvetica: The Perfume
I love this, even at $62 for 2 ounces of distilled water, h/t Kottke.
Helvetica, the perfume. Love it! Who wants a Starbucks card to do usability testing anyway! OK, I gotta ask – the IFTTT url shortener – how?
@Ultan: IFTTT URL shortener? Not sure what you mean.
My Bad. I thought the AppsLab tweet came to me that way, e.g. http://ift.tt/1br2s92 But I can’t find it now!
@Ultan: Oh right, I use IFTTT to push posts here to my personal Twitter account. I use SCM for the “official” accounts.