The Internet of Things: Toys for Hackers or a Real Business Opportunity?

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Originally uploaded by brucesflickr*Man, that session was a long morning.

*I don't believe I've ever seen a tech meeting quite like
that. I wonder if such a thing will ever happen again.
You don't see a loose cloud of hackers turn into a business just every day.

They showed up as a bunch of tech guys who barely know about each other and left as, uh, protostar stellar luminaries.

Vlad Trifa, the organizer, from the "Institute for Pervasive Computing," Zurich.

http://www.vladounet.com/

Oliver Christ. SAP Research, Switzerland.

http://www.itea2-artemisia.org/cv_oliver_christ

Joe Palastre of Sentilla Corporation, "pervasive computing solutions."

http://www.sentilla.com/

David Orban of WideTag and OpenSpime.

http://www.openspime.com/

Matt Cottam of Tellart, "design for the human experience."

http://www.tellart.com

Mike Kuniavsky of ThingM, "smart devices make things simple."

http://thingm.com/

Rafi Halajian of Nabaztag. "1. Connect rabbits. 2. Connect everything else."

http://www.nabaztag.com/en/index.html

Toon Coppens of Tikitag, "a service that links real-life objects to the online world."

http://www.tikitag.com/

Plus, fun and games from the Mediamatic Social RFID Hackers' Camp.

http://www.mediamatic.net/socialRFID

(((Can I leave the room now, Professor? My brain is full!)))