DioT S15 #3 - Ambient Awareness

Silencio is a non intrusive, low cost solution to give people a tool to more effectively self regulate noise levels. Silencio monitors and displays ambient noise on a hanging, lamp like device and thus establishing an accepted noise level. The device would hang over each cluster or row of tables to give precise, location based feedback

HOTSPOT is a dynamic wallpaper, with the pattern of the world map. It's connected with Twitter account, and could show where your friend is through the movement of the wallpaper. For example, when one of your friend Twitter something at Sydney, Sydney Opera House, the landmark of Sydney will pop out on your wall paper.

The ambient scoreboard is a device that allows the user to quickly check the progress of his or her favorite team during games without being distracted by in-game alerts or the droning of commentators and commercials.

Before you head out to fish, it's always important to check the status of the river to see if the fish are biting. Rather than having to search for water data each time you wanted to fish during the week, what if you could quickly glance at a device on your desk and know the status of the river? FishWatch not only helps the fly-fishing enthusiast get their weekly (or daily) fix, but promotes spontaneous adventures out of the office when the outdoors starts calling your name.

Want to get that suddenly cheap flight while it's available or know when Nordstrom's is offering a 1-hr flash sale? How about if an item you posted on eBay is sold and needs to be mailed, or when your grocery store has your favorite foods on special? No need to log into your e-mail multiple times an hour or wade through all of the offers you've received when you can know the important information at just a GLANCE. GLANCE is an ambient device that acts as both a desk light as well as a glance-able notification device. Based on your needs, you can tell your GLANCE to notify you on a multitude of different price changes: *Amazon WishList Price Drops *Flight Tracker Price Changes *Price Drops at Best Buy *Ebay max price hit or winning bid notifications *And more!... ... For example, if you are tracking when rugs go on sale at any of your favorite furniture stores, you can set your GLANCE up to let you know if one does go on sale. No need to wade through your junk mail daily just to make sure you don't miss that sale you were looking for.