A Smarter Planet
Philippe Borremans, IBM’s crack social media expert in Belgium (and producer of the great Smarter Planet Portfolio widget) also also jumped onto the Smarter Planet Language Network with this Dutch version:
http://slimmereplaneet.tumblr.com.
Dank je wel Philippe!
And look for more satellite sites to bring Smarter Planet on Tumblr to a global audience.
It’s often a mundane detail that ultimately solves a crime. A nickname. A parking ticket. A past address. And it is mundane details—billions of them—that populate the data warehouse of the New York City Real Time Crime Center.
Alpharetta and Sandy Springs police departments have a new gizmo that mounts on patrol cars and is capable of reading up to 18 to 20 license plates a second, and detecting which ones the police need to stop.
Acoustic gunshot detectors have become common in the past few years, and some have been reduced in size to where a single soldier can wear one on his uniform and be cued-in to an enemy’s location as soon as he fires.
Profs design AK47-locating ‘smart dust’ helmets: The Register
Congratulations to Dirk Spannaus, one of IBM’s experts in sensors and actuators, Christian Koester and Thomas Hemstaedt for launching the German-language satellite site, Ein smarter Planet, the latest extension of our Smarter Planet Language Network effort to make the Smarter Planet project on Tumblr a global outreach.
The site joins Planeta Inteligente (Spanish) and Planeta Desteapta (Romanian), with a number of other languages in the works.
An innovative piece of BlackBerry technology developed by a group of engineering students at Yale University could add another dimension to campus safety.The free smartphone application called BScope allows BlackBerrys to use raw GPS data to provide highly accurate information on the movements of the phone’s owner.
New BlackBerry application could enhance campus security - The Daily Pennsylvanian
