According to the restricted definition adopted by OpenSpime, an object is a spime if it has:
- a GPS unit, or other location-aware technologies to know where it is, and when it is
- communcation capabilities with the Internet, directly, or through gateways
- memory for storing its data until it can communicate
- a sensor, to measure a value about the world around it.
Social Hardware
We eagerly participate in online activities, investing our time, and resources to enrich the knowledge that the Internet holds on us. Isn't it time that we started to use the machines to better serve us, instead of the other way around? With the development of ubiquitous sensor networks it won't be necessary anymore that humans serve as eyes, and ears of machines.
These networks will start to collect information about the world in an autonomous fashion, and develop a more active role in the online conversations. Machine to machine communications will be at the basis of these conversations, with the network nodes becoming part of what we call the new social hardware!
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