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Last Friday was openMIC 12, a one day event on the impact of cheap Android phones in the Internet of Things. I gave a short talk on the topic, covering mobile phones, internet fridges, robots, geocities, shanzai & kickstarter.

I have no written version to post, instead I recommend reading & watching the following:

• Bret Victor's A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design, covering the problems of using touchscreens as the default design solution.

• Andy Huntington's Geocities of Things (7m30s), on how we are still in the early small-scale hobbyist experimental phase of IoT.

• Matt Jones on If products are people too, let them have a thousand true fans.

Whilst the videos & webpages I used as slides are:

• George Melies' The Conjourer

• The Magician's Desk

• A Day of Glass

• Samsung's Internet Fridge

• DisplayCabinet

• Beer Launching Fridge

• Fridge Pets

• Madgets

• Gus and Penny

• Puppy Tweets

• 808 Cameras

• FXI Cotton Candy

• Liquid Robotics

• Quadrocopter Juggling

• Romo, the smartphone robot

• Popa for iPhone