Original Internet Coffee Maker
The Hammersmith Group just published a nice overview of the potential for connected devices by Constantine Valhouli dubbed “The Internet of things: Networked objects and smart devices.” It quotes myself, Julian Bleecker, Bruce Sterling, Adam Greenfield and covers devices from the WineM to Botanicalls to the Ambient Orb along with the original online coffee pot. There’s a variety of other interesting research papers on this site, including the one that quotes me.
Excellent post, I’ve been reading lots on this topic lately, maybe it will actually get going. Here is an article from a series I thought was good.