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Plugged In Your Computer By Eric Spellmann
A brief look at early Internet connected devices from Coke machines to coffee makers a telegarden and Harvard Micro Observatory. The piece surveys Internet enabled objects including a seismograph linked to the net and a remotely driven car, highlighting the surge toward world network interfaces.
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Carnegie Mellon University
John Zsarnay
Lawrence Butcher
Telegarden
University of Southern California
Austria
Ars Electronica Center
Micro
Harvard
Harvard.edu
MicroObservatory
Ieor
Berkeley
Hayward
California