My friend Gary Goddard turned me onto Tom Igoe’s book Making Things Talk this weekend. I’ve only looked at the first chapter O’Reilly has online, but it looks like a very useful resource for the aiosphere. Gary says it basically eliminates the need for the aiosphere project, but the first chapter sugests that it is completely at the other end of the spectrum: how to use expensive and complicated hardware, with rudimentary knowledge and very high level languages, to do point-to-point communications experiments. The aiosphere, on the other hand, will create a global hardware and software architecture for networked ambient devices. Anyway, this promises to be a good read.