#smart technology
Our new Monday morning best friend. This smart table will bother you until you get all the stuff you need in your bag – including breakfast. THANKS, TABLE!
Wanna know how it works?Watch today’s TED talk on touch technology – from the guy who created this and many other shape-shifting designs. (From the geniuses at TEDxCERN.)
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Smart bulbs and smart contacts are godsend to an ADD disaster like me.
The bulb in my bedroom ensures that I wake up in the morning. The one in the living room turns off when I need to leave for work and the one in the entrance turns off 15 minutes later just in case I was slow and need to be able to find my shoes. The light in the living room changes when I need to get ready for bed, and everything including the TV is set to turn off when the house is empty/everybody has gone to bed/the sun is up.
We’ve had smart bulbs for two years now and it’s one of the best things we ever did. 11/10 would recommend to fellow disasters.
Earlier this month, BiblioTech, the all-digital library in Bexar County, Texas, joined over a dozen other libraries in a launch of Geolocation authentication technology.
Having beta-tested Geolocation over the past year, BiblioTech is finding new ways to make it even easier for citizens of the Greater San Antonio area to access the library’s digital content. In practical terms, Geolocation authentication allows for libraries to promote a URL to anyone in their service area that he/she can plugin to his or her smartphone, tablet or laptop and immediately start reading.
This simple link sharing creates opportunities to partner up with public entities, like public transit.
Two custom URLs are now being advertised on San Antonio’s public bus service, VIA: one targeted to adult readers, the other to younger readers.
“Our objective was a simple one,” said BiblioTech Executive Director, Laura Cole, “We wanted to meet the library patron in their everyday activities – because we can. A critical element of our mission is to promote reading as recreation and the regular, or even occasional bus ride presents us with an opportunity to enhance your day. VIA’s Wi-Fi service allows us to do that…The patron can enjoy reading immediately.”
BiblioTech is also teaming up with VIA for their annual Poetry on the Move contest which takes submissions from local writers; the winning poems are “brought to life” inside VIA buses a la companion artwork from local art organizations. This year, a geolocated URL will be created and promoted on VIA buses so passengers can “drop into” a collection of the poems as well as other multimedia components that pair with them, such as video of live poetry readings.
After just one year of beta testing, and now an official launch from libraries across North America, Geolocation authentication is already displaying impressive numbers on how smart technology is increasing community engagement. At the time of this blog post, over two dozen libraries have chosen to opt into Geolocation authentication.
Learn more by watching this quick highlight reel from a recent webinar or contact us directly at [email protected]
