Kate Hartman and I presented Botanicalls in the ETel Fair and at the general conference. Thanks to Shawn Van Every, Surj Patel and Brady Forrest for inviting us to participate. This was a great conference, got to check out presentations by OpenMoko, on Neo1973, the first open source cellphone and really cool software radio by Ettus. Lots of great people.

Photo by Duncan Davidson (flickr).

Inspired by the idea of observing personal space and stress in the urban environment, Urban Sonar is a wearable system that logs and visualizes proximity and heart rate over the course of a day, that Sai Sriskandarajah, Kate Hartman and I created. Check out our logged personal space and heart rate in the urban sonar visualizer. Here’s a video of Sai and I talking about the project, care of Daniel Liss and Paris Marashi.