January 11, 2006
Physical Markup Language
Your Room as Browser
Ambient Intelligence, with its network of cooperating devices, offers the promise of providing us with exciting new experiences in the home...An Ambient Intelligence system can interpret a description in Physical Markup Language (PML)--developed by Philips to describe experiences within an Ambient Intelligence environment. Devices in a network can jointly use their individual capabilities to render that experience at a given location.
In effect, your whole room becomes a 'browser' that brings the experience to life. For example, PML-enabled lights add to the experience by getting brighter or dimmer, or changing colour. A PML-enabled hi-fi provides an appropriate soundscape. Almost any device can be PML-enabled: the possibilities are only limited by the imaginations of their manufacturers. Suppose a room is rendering an experience described as 'warm and sunny': the lights, the TV, the central heating, the electronically controlled blinds and (a little further into the future) even the ceiling, walls and floor coverings could all contribute to creating it. [via nicolas at pasta and vinegar]
Posted by jo at January 11, 2006 08:04 AM
