smarterplanet:

Emerging protocol can help manage the Internet of Things — GCN

The ever-expanding networks of sensors and other machine-to-machine devices on the “Internet of Things” are creating huge stores of data for everything from traffic and weather monitoring to health care and finance.

And there will only going be more of them. Sensors, for example, will play a key role in the Obama Administration’s recently released National Strategy for Civil Earth Observations, a plan to increase the efficiency and effectiveness Earth-observations. Along with other steps toward streamlining the efforts of the 11 agencies involved in the observations, it calls for extensive use of sensors in gathering the data.

Of course, having all that data is one thing. Making sense of it — quickly — is another. One key is the emerging Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol, a lightweight messaging transport for machine-to-machine communications that recently was proposed as an OASIS standard.

OASIS in March began the process “to define an open publish/subscribe protocol for telemetry messaging designed to be open, simple, lightweight and suited for use in constrained networks and multi-platform environments.” The protocol, which consumes little power, is designed to help sensors and other devices — which tend to be low-power and low-bandwidth — communicate reliably.

laughingsquid:

Test-Firing The ‘Liberator,’ World’s First 3D-Printed Plastic Handgun

staff:

Welcome to the latest Tumblr Tuesday, where we share some of our favorite random Tumblr blogs of this very moment.

I Stole This From You
A collection of your precious things — stolen, borrowed, and handed down — and the stories behind them. Submitted by you. Illustrated by Sirin Thada.

Science in a Can
One-paragraph articles explaining the universe. If you’ve ever wondered what space smells like, here’s your answer.

YA Highway
Nomadic novelists from around the world celebrate fiction’s most exciting age ground: young adult!

FACEMATH
This new form of mathematics explains so much. Here’s my favorite.

Track Em, Find Em, Kill Em
A field guide from in-world universe of The Expendables 2. I’d sure hate to be these guys.

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Something to learn about and from the block buster poster designs.

worldfamousdesignjunkies:

“Focus groups” have said that this new 20 dollar bill is pornographic and evokes images of 9/11 because there are two towers.

Dear focus groups: have you lost your fucking minds?

Here is an embed of the xkcd comic that originated the concept of the “Ballmer Peak” LOL nice one!!