PUBLIC MARKS with search concept

A massive increase in international co-operation and significant investment in awareness-building and training are essential if the concept of an Internet of Things (IoT) is to be turned into a meaningful reality, says a European Union-funded project in its final report, “RFID and the Inclusive Model for the Internet of Things.”

Voilà un nouveau type de magazine qui promet en ces temps de crise, le gratuit de proximité ! C’est un concept japonais qui propose de mieux vivre son quartier et de consommer malin.

When the idea came up, we thought “wow, this is really innovative and smart”. But quickly we found out that we had not invented anything: Tupperware has been doing for years. And since 1907 a famous movement has functionned in a similar way, groups of people getting together following guidelines expressed in a book. It is of course Scouting. Scouting spread all around the world based on Baden Powell’s book. So if you thought Barcamp and Pecha Kucha’s concept of decentralized events was new, unfortunately it is not really. Welcome to the frustration of living in the 21st century, almost everything has already been done :)

After my last video about using a barcode scanner to add and search books in your library, I was feeling pretty happy. Bar code scanners are pretty cheap–mine cost about $65. But then Google released the Android Scripting Environment (ASE) and it turns out that you don’t even need a bar code scanner. Instead, you can use an Android phone such as the G1.

Just as a proof-of-concept, here’s a barcode scanner written in six lines of Python code:

Un nouveau concept de marque-page disponible en couleur orangée. L’atout de l’objet : en plus de retenir la page, il indique d’un trait la ligne où reprendre sa lecture. Une idée développée par le studio Propaganda. Explications dans la suite de l’article.

A surreal concept where there is a city of no horizon. I love how it looks on the shirt, endless flow of river towards bottom and infinite extension of sky towards top.