{"id":1920,"date":"2008-04-19T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2008-04-19T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T16:00:16","slug":"leveraging-existing-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/04\/19\/leveraging-existing-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Leveraging Existing Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen these demos before, but Johnny Lee&#8217;s TED talk still wows:<br \/>\n<!--cut and paste--><br \/>\n <span class=\"pontiff-restored-video\" data-source-video=\"ted-johnny_lee_free_or_cheap_wii_remote_hacks\" style=\"display:block;position:relative;width:560px;max-width:100%;aspect-ratio:16\/9;min-height:200px\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/johnny_lee_free_or_cheap_wii_remote_hacks\" title=\"Johnny Lee: Free or cheap Wii Remote hacks\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allow=\"encrypted-media;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen style=\"position:absolute;inset:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\"><\/iframe><\/span><span style=\"display:block\"><a class=\"pontiff-restored-video-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/johnny_lee_free_or_cheap_wii_remote_hacks\">Watch Johnny Lee: Free or cheap Wii Remote hacks on TED<\/a><\/span> Not only does it seem that interfaces are undergoing some radical redesigning right now, but also methods to take existing &#8220;cheap&#8221; products and leverage them into something which would normally cost a lot more, seems to be catching on.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nJust yesterday I saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.washington.edu\/events\/colloquia\/search\/details?id=708\">talk <\/a>by Shwetak Patel from Georgia Tech which leverages things like existing power lines, plumbing, or HVAC systems to detect activities occurring in a house.  What was nice about the work, in my mind, was the fact that it leveraged current infrastructure and thus wasn&#8217;t nearly as difficult to install.  Soon, we might all have tricked out Bill Gates houses (okay maybe not so big and not so fancy and our homes probably won&#8217;t have security guards, BTW.)<br \/>\nOn a tangential note, Lee&#8217;s push to make more researchers use video a mode of distribution is interesting.  Somehow, however, I don&#8217;t think me giving a lecture on quantum computing would be downloaded over a million times if I posted it on YouTube!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen these demos before, but Johnny Lee&#8217;s TED talk still wows: Not only does it seem that interfaces are undergoing some radical redesigning right now, but also methods to take existing &#8220;cheap&#8221; products and leverage them into something which would normally cost a lot more, seems to be catching on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}