A lot of things need to happen to make more sensory data get collected and useful services more prevalent. One of them is often called “Screenification” meaning more intelligent screens everywhere to pump out at you useful services and information at you from the data that’s being sensed. Sort of a quid pro quo type of relationship.

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We’ve seen products like the Jawbone UP that want to track your movements to in turn provide you with information that can improve your health… hint… move more!  But sometimes you’re already making specific movements to improve your health at the gym for example as you treadmill, cycle and elliptical your way through a cardio work out. So what data can be sensed and slurped up to pushed back out to you in some sort of useful way is logically your speed, which also translates into distance.

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Over at Engadget I came across this article and YouTube video about a concept car from Mitsibushi. The car in the video is called the EMIRAI and looks more like a motorcycle from the film Tron than any car I’ve seen before.

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On the consumer side of things sharing data with the sensory cloud is just in its infancy. As with any newborn it must be handled with care, and fortunately makers of the Jawbone UP realize that and have taken great pains to rectify a problem that some users of the recently released Jawbone UP wristband are experiencing.

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Chip makers (and Telco’s, social networks,… everybody) have something to gain with an increase in sensory cloud data being bandied around. Healthcare is a primary market to fill the sensory cloud but also take advantage of what can be construed from that data too so their getting special early attention from all the big players.

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Wired’s Dawn Lim is taking a look at a new Darpa experiment known as Assessment of Asymmetric Social Indicators”… which boils down into creating sensors to analyze your social behavior and then trying to makes some sense of that data to help you react under stress or strange/foreign conditions better.

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If you’re thinking that urinal based gaming is taking the piss… you’d be correct, but not in the way you think. Using the direction and force of your wee the public Captive Media’s urinal/kiosk like device is able to control activities in games on a screen placed in the kiosk at eye level.

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We’ve started a new section here on the site regarding news, video and our opinions and ideas about what we’re calling “The Sensory Cloud”. The sensory cloud is the next key segment of Big Data that’s beginning to emerge with products and services that feed the cloud beyond our present social and mobile data behavior. Data that’s being shared by our bodies and innate behaviors which provide

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