Spime Watch XIII: Ambient Products, UFOs and Smart Goods & Furniture

The original Peter Morville article on "Ubiquitous Findable Objects."

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/11/17/ubiquitous-findable-objects.html

The ambiently findable

Ambient products.

http://www.ambientdevices.com/cat/products.html

Hey look, my umbrella-handle glows when rain is coming, how, uh, neat-o

Semacode.

http://www.semacode.org/

Hey look, we can leave our cryptic digital spoor on anything to which glue adheres

Nabaztag.

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/03/virtual_bunny_to_real_world_wi.html

The street finds its own uses for rapidly proliferating cute wi-fi rabbits

http://www.nabaztag.com/vl/FR/index.jspThe Nabaztag ear-wiggling 'French protesters in the streets index'

http://antimega.textdriven.com/antimega/2006/03/26/smart-goods-the-story-so-far'Smart Goods', they're not spimes, but they are translucent (and they're not 'smart')

The Smart Furniture Manifesto by Mike Kuniavsky.

http://www.orangecone.com/archives/2004/09/smart_furniture_4.html

This is a great METROPOLIS article, but I don't think furniture should be properly described as 'smart' either