Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Speckled worlds (16 Dec 2005) Imagine a world where you can metaphorically 'spray' computers onto a piece of jigsaw, allowing them to autonomously and intelligently assemble and reassemble together. Or image the scenario where you can scatter tiny computers onto the chest of a patient, with a heart disease, allowing them to independently monitor the patient's condition. Or consider a world where whole buildings are splayed with small, networked computers, which monitor the building's energy consumption, fine tuning the temperature to the amount of people in a room or across the building, while simultaneously greeting people individually as they enter and leave. Add this article to Del.icio.us Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/art69.htm Read 150 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Wireless Sensing Networks: an overview of US development          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy

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