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There’s a nice post up on eightbar about Adam Greenfield’s new book, Everyware, which I’m hoping to crack soon, and some of the things they’re working on over at IBM’s Hursley Park Lab in the UK, from which eightbar (as well as a virtual Wimbledon) emerges.

Adam’s vision of Everyware is one of almost effortless and unknowing interactions with our surroundings, surroundings that are actually networked devices receiving and broadcasting information, which is collated, distributed and presented to users (I prefer participants) in intuitive, helpful and appropriate ways. . . . The theme struck a chord with me simply for the fact that we use a lot of these technologies here in the Emerging Tech group in Hursley (well we are emerging tech after all) . Motes, Zigbee enabled devices, RFID and other funky Gizmos can usually be found spilling out from under Dave Conway-Jones office door.

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I got a closer look yesterday at the virtual baseball stadium being built for MLB.com by the Electric Sheep Company in Second Life. The park itself, still in the final stages of construction, consists of a pretty cute diamond, scaled down to SL dimensions, surrounded by a lag-friendly number of seats in the stands. Hank Hoodoo of the Sheep also answered a couple of questions I’d had about the project. (more…)