{"id":923,"date":"2004-11-30T16:37:58","date_gmt":"2004-11-30T16:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=923"},"modified":"2004-11-30T16:37:58","modified_gmt":"2004-11-30T16:37:58","slug":"nifty-things-the-ambient-dashboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/923","title":{"rendered":"Nifty things: the Ambient Dashboard."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How cool is this?  The <a title=\"Ambient Executive Dashboard Preview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ambientdevices.com\/cat\/dashboard\/index.html\">Ambient Executive Dashboard<\/a> is an analog device that receives a wireless signal to display the current status of three different elements, such as the value of your stock portfolio.  It&#8217;s not as cool as it could be, because their business model doesn&#8217;t include just the hardware, but a monthly charge for the wireless signal.  This seems silly to me; it&#8217;d be infinitely better if it could simply be configured to read data off a local server and your local 802.11x network.  Still, a cool little device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How cool is this? The Ambient Executive Dashboard is an analog device that receives a wireless signal to display the current status of three different elements, such as the value of your stock portfolio. It&#8217;s not as cool as it could be, because their business model doesn&#8217;t include just the hardware, but a monthly charge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-eT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}