{"id":409,"date":"2006-06-15T15:04:35","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T23:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2006-06-15T15:04:35","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T23:04:35","slug":"ambient-usability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/15\/ambient-usability\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambient usability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw two neat applications of computer-like intelligence integrated with parts of our regular lives. (both via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/\">engadget<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2005\/07\/13\/hansas-temperature-sensitive-faucets\/\">Faucets<\/a> that illuminate the water in a red shade if the water is hot, or a blue shade if the water is cold:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2005\/07\/13\/hansas-temperature-sensitive-faucets\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.engadget.com\/common\/images\/0265162384984605.JPG?0.4415107467551126\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/05\/03\/wifi-umbrella-lets-you-know-when-its-needed\/\">this umbrella<\/a>, who&#8217;s handle glows to let you know whether or not you should take it to work, based on weather reports in your area:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/05\/03\/wifi-umbrella-lets-you-know-when-its-needed\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2006\/05\/wifi-umbrella.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This kind of thing is very cool&#8230; I hope to see it become cheaper and more popular in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw two neat applications of computer-like intelligence integrated with parts of our regular lives. (both via engadget) Faucets that illuminate the water in a red shade if the water is hot, or a blue shade if the water is cold: And this umbrella, who&#8217;s handle glows to let you know whether or not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","category-techie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-6B","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}