The internet of browsers
summary
Browsers behave like IoT nodes: the demo uses the URL bit.lfsf bcn and reads battery API levels, geolocation, device orientation, ambient light and proximity and uses getUserMedia, web audio and the vibrate API to actuate phones. Three-button A/B/C presses triangulate devices in the room, produce position-synced color and sound, reveal Wi‑Fi latency, and the fix is distributed fading rather than precise timestamps. The demo mostly works despite flaky conference Wi‑Fi; four‑digit hex codes map to mapped positions and to shared memory storage.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:30Ben Foxall
- 2:35Internet of Things
- 5:08Devices as Things
- 13:50Positioning
- 27:58Mercury delay
- 30:58Physical world
- 31:33Data storage
- 33:23Our relationship with technology
- 35:18Conclusion
