Comm*Connect

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Comm*Connect is a sketch based on the Comm.unity software platform developed by Nadav Aharony. Comm.unity implements a wireless, device-to-device information system that bypasses the need for any centralized servers, coordination, or administration. A key feature of this platform is the fact that it combines knowledge, awareness, and learning of the user's social relationships and integrates this information into the communication protocols and network services. Comm.unity is designed to work on as many devices as possible, and with as many different radios as possible (WiFi, Bluetooth, IR, etc.). It is designed as a platform over which many different networked applications could be developed with ease, from the bottom layers of the network all the way up to the user interface. In the short movie linked to via the image above we present some use cases for Comm.unity based applications, including the "Social Dashboard"—a readily usable control for one's digital aura—as well as a brief working demo showing an image propagate across multiple devices.