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The smart devices that notify you when you are dumb

Every object, no matter how ordinary, can become smart and thus bring your life to whole new levels of joy and awareness. I just found two more proofs of this truth.

Gmail Buddy, aka "The Internet of Things we do NOT need"

an Internet of Things that we definitely don’t need

there is a project, over at Seeed, that is a good example of a really (too) large category of projects that I really do not get. At least, I don’t get why they should have anything like “smart” or “smarter” in their name. I’m talking of

Light Saver, a nice project... that should be explained better

Vedant Desai is a “Smart Fifth Grader Football Player” who just invented a “Light Saver” device that…

The Really Smart Home vs the Internet of Stupid Things

Internet of Things. Smart homes. Smart appliances. Smart everything. How smart is the result?

Why 'greener' computing is coming soon to Europe

(historical note: this is an article I wrote for IT Manager’s Journal, which published it at the URL http://management.itmanagersjournal.com/management/04/12/07/2312226.shtml?tid=84 on December 14, 2004. When I rediscovered the original text on my hard drive, on December 29, 2013, I put it back here with the original date as reference, since that whole website was closed years ago) The Member States of the European Union are getting ready to follow two directives that will have a deep impact on all the electronic industry.

What is Trashware? A way to save money and pollute less with computers!