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Citiesense iPhone air quality monitoring

Posted on December 27, 2012April 22, 2013 by timbatchelder

CitiSense is a Portable Air Pollution Monitoring Device that Sends Data to Your Smart Phone | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
Jill Fehrenbacher 5 Tips to Make Your Home Safe, Green & Healthy from Zem Joaquin TweetShare on TumblrEmail You’ve all heard the tired mantras about changing your lightbulbs and recycling at home in order to save the planet – are you yawning yet? Many consumers think that going green is a gesture of self-sacrifice that often comes at great expense and inconvenience – but nothing could be further from the […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

CitiSense is a portable pollution monitoring system that allows you to check nearby air quality on your smart phone. Developed by computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, the system delivers real-time d…

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UK in court on air pollution levels (bbc.co.uk)
Air quality app gives real-time pollution readings (utsandiego.com)
NASA tracks air pollution to help make better air quality forecasts (wtkr.com)
Hong Kong to Raise Air Quality Standards and Cut Emissions – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)

An energy model for Boston from European cities

Posted on August 22, 2012August 23, 2012 by timbatchelder

Germany definitely has the right idea: convert ugly old buildings to biofuel factories and kick start the green economy. But we’re still in the mode of “drill baby drill.”

An energy model for Boston – Boston.com.

Renewable distributed electricity generation to triple by 2017 (eco-business.com)
Germany: Full speed ahead on renewables (summitcountyvoice.com)
Germany’s Great Energy-Jobs Destruction Revolution – Green Energies In Collapse (notrickszone.com)
US to retake top investor in Germany crown (thelocal.de)
Biofuel fails EU sustainability test, German researchers claim (guardian.co.uk)
German Textile Industry Pushes Back Against Green Energy (theepochtimes.com)
Learning from Germany’s success story of renewable energy (times.co.zm)
Germany produced 25% of it’s energy from renewables this year (reuters.com)
Renewable energy key to safe environment (times.co.zm)
Merkel’s green shift forces Germany to burn more coal (fuelfix.com)

Nokia works to understand developing markets thru ethnographic research

Posted on July 20, 2011February 11, 2013 by timbatchelder

Growth-in-Social-Networking-in-developing-coun... — Growth-in-Social-Networking-in-developing-countries (Photo credit: Analectic.org)

Great article on the fact that Nokia is investing heavily in a do or die fashion in understanding the anthropology of how people actually use mobile devices in the developing world, and using this to develop a line of low power mobile devices.

Nokia Sets Sights on Developing World – Technology Review.

Nokia’s $1.35B Job: Pioneer World’s Strongest Material (newser.com)
Some interesting “Did you know…” facts about Nokia (wpcentral.com)
Nokia Begins Work On Graphene, World’s Strongest Material (miami.cbslocal.com)
Nokia teasing a super-resolution camera on Facebook? (wmpoweruser.com)
Qualcomm, Nokia partner on new 3G phones (reviews.cnet.com)
Nokia Lumia 1000-The Next 41 MP Windows Phone (technoworrlld.blogspot.com)

EvoFIT: Evolutionary science and anthropometrics applied to criminal facial recognition software

Posted on May 22, 2010February 9, 2013 by timbatchelder

For a long time the process of identifying suspects in criminal cases was a rather frighteningly imprecise one of line ups relying on human’s often variable ability to remember specific facial features. Now, using evolutionary and anthropometric sciences, this article shows how new software can allow identification using a gradual process of increased recognition more akin to the way we actually recognize people.

Monitor: Memory upgrade | The Economist.

Bob Samuels: Darwin’s iPhone: The Politics and Rhetoric of Neuroscience, Evolutionary Psychology, and Online Education (huffingtonpost.com)
anarcho-queer: FBI Launches $1 Billion Nationwide Facial… (politicalcrazyness.tumblr.com)
Japanese ‘Privacy Goggles’ Block Facial Recognition Software (businessinsider.com)
Facebook brings back facial recognition for photo tagging (ctvnews.ca)
EvoDerma Celebrates New Anti-Aging Device with Promotion (prweb.com)
Japanese scientists invent ‘privacy visor’ to fool Google’s facial recognition software (rawstory.com)
Irish privacy regulators confirm Facebook wiped facial recognition data in Europe (digitaltrends.com)

Make Me Sustainable :: Your Guide to a Sustainable Tomorrow

Posted on August 25, 2007August 25, 2012 by timbatchelder

Make Me Sustainable :: Your Guide to a Sustainable Tomorrow.

Restaurant insurance holders are ‘making sustainable changes’ (premierlinedirect.co.uk)
Fashion Industry Makes Sustainability Statement (sustainablebusiness.com)
RIVERSIDE: UCR recognized for sustainability efforts (pe.com)
Nin Castle: Making a Sustainable Statement (theurbn.com)
Coclico Shoes: Where Chic, Summery, and Sustainable Design Come Together (fabsugar.com)
How do we make ‘green’ sexy? (rtcc.org)
Green or Sustainable – Make no mistake (101clevercleaningtips.com)
Hillary: Genocide Makes World Sustainable (mundabor.wordpress.com)
Rio+20 Update: Brazil, Denmark, France And South Africa Lead Call For Sustainability Reporting (triplepundit.com)
European Consumption Still Highly Unsustainable, Despite Efficiency Gains (ecology.com)

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