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90% Networked Sony Devices. Good news for ubicomp researchers? As long as there is an api!

Posted: Wed 2nd Jul 2008@10:23

Sony Goal: 90% of ALL Our Products Networked By 2010

An article at Gizmodo suggested that sony are planning to make 90% of their devices networked by 2010, which is pretty interesting, as it means Ubicomp researchers can munge all these things together to make cool new systems! That is, if the devices can be programmed and tinkered with.

However this will hopefully mean the more consumer devices will become 'connected' and therefore accessible by pervasive systems at least in some minor way. One issue I see though is that of privacy, if all of these devices are connected, we have to make sure that the data they are transmitting is non-private or reliably encrypted, and of course network attack proof!