Self-surveillance

Neil Harbisson is completely color blind, so he has a device that lets him listen to color.

Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam put a camera on a piece of checked luggage…

Just because there’s no content that comes with the metadata doesn’t make the latter useless.

Set it up in ten minutes.

Reddit user noveltysin wore a Fitbit during sex, and then posted a screenshot…

There’s the unspoken agreement between two people who walk directly towards each other.…

The Citizen Ex browser extension guesses where you’re geographically located on the web.…

With wearables and cheaper and advancing tech, the how part of personal data…

There were a couple of similar quantified self articles last week about email.…

Artist Alberto Frigo took a picture of every object he used with his…

The Sid Lee agency in Paris has Arduino-powered sensors hooked up throughout their…

The moments leading up to a marriage proposal can be both exciting and…

Personal data from Facebook, Twitter, and email are already used, so sure why…

We browse online, we see ads, and we buy stuff. The better-targeted the…

After you’ve collected data about yourself for a while, you tend to go…

Entering the market of self-surveillance for sleep, via Kickstarter, Sense promises to be…

In his ninth edition of the personal report, Nicholas Felton looks at communication…

Personal data collection keeps getting easier and more efficient. Much of what was…

I tracked steps and sleep for the past month wearing the Jawbone UP24…

Visits, a research project by Alice Thudt, Dominikus Baur, and Sheelagh Carpendale from…