Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Carla Diana at World Maker Faire New York 2013”.
My name is Carla Diana and I am a designer educator and writer. I think we’re going to see a lot more in the domestic robot space. People are very used to floor cleaning robots like the Roomba, but that’s all we think about right now, but we’re going to see that kind of technology in all of our other appliances as well and in particular, what’s going to change, is having them connected to the Internet, so I think that there are a few really big challenges for internet of things to really be integrated into our everyday lives. One of those is ease of connectivity with the way wife and Wi-Fi networks are set up right now, it’s still very challenging. You have to sign in you have to find a network, another very big challenge for Internet of Things to be adopted.
It’S going to be power, so all of the cords and batteries that we have on our appliances right now. If we try to think about multiplying that by five, it’s going to be a really maddening world that we live in, so we’re going to really be dependent on new ways of power generation, alternative ways of power generation. There are researchers from University of Washington who are looking at something called ambient backscatter, which is actually going to be able to harness the radio waves that are ready in the air to excite a circuit to get just enough energy to send the signal. So aesthetics are going to play a really huge role in implementing new technologies into our lives, particularly with Internet of Things.
Where now we have data, that’s flowing through our objects and aesthetics is going to be able to help us to understand what that data is. So. Yes, of course, we have screens, and we have screens that tell us what’s happening, but when we have so much data coming in, we need to rely on ambient data so light sound and movements are going to become little subtle ways that are objects communicate with us And let us know that something’s happening or something’s change. .
