Donald Thompson

In this excerpt, we'll create the ultimate flashlight. With find-in-the-dark flashing behavior and a power-audit mode, this single-button-controlled device will become the ultimate in personal illumination for the twenty-first century. Figure 1 shows how the flashlight will be c... (more)

The first article in this series described the overall motivation for the Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) initiative, detailed the client hardware and core client software and covered some of the wireless network processing. This article will finish describing the client... (more)

Product groups at Microsoft generally develop platforms or specific applications that run on these platforms. SPOT is different. Our goal is to increase the usefulness of everyday objects that we can wear, carry, or that might be scattered throughout the environment, ultimately m... (more)