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SETI@Home shows that lots of people are
willing to participate in distributed computing
projects if they sound sexy and/or have
a nice visual dispaly. Why not build trinkets
for particular projects which are cheap and
attractive enough that that people will buy
them as decorations? The one for
global
climate models would be a little globe which
changes color as it calculates future
temperatures, etc.
(?) Casino-21
http://www.climate-dynamics.rl.ac.uk/
Massively-distributed climate modeling [cosma, Dec 03 1999, last modified Oct 04 2004]
(?) Sun's Jini Connection Technology
http://www.sun.com/jini
Devices should work together. They should
simply connect. No drivers to find, no operating
system issues, no weird cables and connectors. [jimfl, Dec 03 1999, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Hyphos: a self-organizing Wireless Network
http://www.media.mi...h/Hyphos/index.html
An alternate to Jini from the Imagineers at MIT's media-lab. [bear, Dec 03 1999, last modified Oct 04 2004]
(?) Decentralized Computer Networks
http://www.dnaco.ne...lized-networks.html
A page of references to other similar network schemes. [jimfl, Dec 03 1999, last modified Oct 04 2004]
(?) Personal Ambient Displays
http://tangible.www...l_Ambient_Disp.html
Though not as old, or as origianl as the Factoid... these gimmicks are a step in the right direction. [bear, Dec 03 1999, last modified Oct 04 2004]
(?) Cybiko
http://www.cybiko.com
A wireless PDA marketed for teens. not a trinket, but apparently has structures in place for program interaction at a disctance. does chat, email, friend-finding, and wirelessly interactive games. A system like this could actually do distributed computing with no central compilation system, if it wanted to. [bear, Dec 03 1999, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Fact Sheet: IBM's Linux Wrist Watch
http://alllinuxdevi...-07-005-03-PS-WL-WB
Fact sheet concerning IBM's Linux-running research prototype wristwatch [bear, Dec 03 1999, last modified Oct 04 2004]
(?) Image of self-same wristwatch
http://lwn.net/daily/linuxwatch_pen.php3
Here's a pic of the thing. Oddly enough, in command line mode. [bear, Dec 03 1999, last modified Oct 04 2004]
A GNU/Linux Wristwatch Videophone
http://www2.linuxjo...s/issue75/3993.html
Pah! Here's _another_ (different) one. It's two years older and runs Xwindow and contains a videocamera. damn. [bear, Dec 03 1999, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Ambient Devices
http://www.ambientdevices.com
All around you computing devices.. make Ambient produce a SETI version and your done [nhyatt, Feb 21 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
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This is a beautiful idea! Onward ahoy! |
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"press any key to clear the tiny seti-at-hand screen saver. " -quote from slashdotter re: New Linux-based Wristwatch (?!) from IBM. |
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There you go, an even weirder concept - a Seti@wherever micro-client to run on your watch when you're not using it. IBM isn't planning to commercialize the watch as of yet, but we continue to inch closer to my favorite of all half-baked concepts. see much new linkage. |
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I'm curious as to what the ideal input-output would be. Would the first product be these little weather globes, that would take in the current temperature (and I imagine some kind of GPS to let the network know where it is) and then output temperature forecast? |
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An interesting idea. How expensive would a dedicated device have to be? |
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I might be willing to spend a bit more for [nhyatt]'s weather station - and share the data from it - because I get something in return (more accurate weather forecasts). But I wouldn't spend much more. |
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The SETI@Home tchotchke would have to be very inexpensive. |
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