Motorola is going to license Steve Wozniak’s Wheels of Zeus wireless technology for a line of consumer products. I imagine they’ll be building tracking keychains and kid monitors and all that stuff.

How cool is it that I’m blogging wirelessly from downstairs? ISIS sure knows how to travel…

A follow-up to Kyle’s previous post, the VentureBlog article contains a great link to UCSD’s “ActiveCampus” site:
http://activecampus.ucsd.edu/index.php
It’s all about UCSD students being able to carry WiFi PDAs around campus and do cool stuff–like see their friends in realtime on a campus map, and the PDA can suggest lunch dates…

The BBC reports that Intel ethnologist Dr Genevieve Bell has been studying how technology (read: cell phones) have become a tool for learning, religion and politics in Asia.
via Smart Mobs

The Japanese keep hacking the planet. Way to go, guys.
KoKoRo: Wireless VoIP by p2p from a Japanese start up , “Skyley Networks”

Forget Silicon Valley, the Ivy League is where real tech innovation is happening. First robust campus-wide WiFi, Blitzmail and now voice over WiFi at Dartmouth. These guys rock! Apparently even before this they decided to make all long distance calls free since running the billing system was more expensive than the long distance service! At […]

Atheros, a company consiting largely of Stanford EEs keeps doing more and more impossibly cool stuff with WiFi. This time they’ve managed to triple the range and eliminate dead zones. What’s next? Curly fries? Atheros triples Wi-Fi range to 1km

There’s an interesting article from today’s NYT Circuits section about using cellphones (especially SMS) to allow universal control of displays in order to improve the utility of public spaces–it mentions things like the Blinkenlights display in Germany and the BBCi HQ, which allows passers-by to submit questions for ongoing interviews by SMS. The article’s […]

Zach’s a huge advocate of including Stanford building codes with each event, which we can then look up in GIS and know the lat/long to the nearest few tens of feet of every event. This opens up all kinds of cool new possibilities for interfaces such as the map idea that Emily Ma mentioned was […]

Check out this amazing gallery of futuristic cell phones and handhelds. Click on the logos to see each company’s ideas.
Is this how people will access events@stanford and the Pulse screens in the future?