The slides for my talk at re:publica 2012. From the description of the talk:
Streetlights are online, geiger counters are. Fridges are online for the better part of the last ten years and cars are just now coming online. There’s hardly any consumer electronics left that aren’t in some way communicating on the internet. And with chips getting ever cheaper and ever smaller, even lightbulbs now communicate with the smart phone. There’s houses that tweet and pill cases that send SMS. All in all, there’s more “Things” on the mobile phone networks now than people. Everything’s connected it seems.
How about a little help then in setting it all into context?
39. “It’s not often that we get excited about a refrigerator, but
Samsung’s app-capable LCD cool-box has us salivating.
This Wi-Fi-enabled 4-door fridge sports an 8-inch touchscreen,
making it possible to use apps like like Epicurious for recipes,
play music through Pandora (yes, it has speakers), read the
news, take notes, display photos and mark events on Google
Calendar.”
Andrew Couts, digitaltrends.com
41. “We asked Samsung
for its smartest new
invention.
This is what they
gave us.”
Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
42. “[…] collecting all Internet Fridge ideas and the latest attempts
of large white goods manufacturers to address this venn
diagram that simply won’t stick: Food management and the
internet. Brilliant idea, crap implementation over and over
again. But the hope lives on.”
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino on
fuckyeahinternetfridge.tumblr.com