* Ambient Devices, a U. S. company

Negroponte is an active angel investor and has invested in over 30 startup companies over the last 30 years, including Zagats, Wired, Ambient Devices, Skype and Velti.

* Ambient Devices, which produces glanceable information displays

Ambient Information Network, a datacasting network owned by Ambient Devices presently hosted by U. S. A. Mobility, a U. S. paging service and focuses on information of interest to the local ( or larger ) area, such as weather and stock indices, and with a paid subscription Ambient will provide a particular device with more personalized information.

The New York Times Magazine announced ambient devices as one of the Ideas of the Year in 2002 on the heels of a start-up company, Ambient Devices, releasing their first product Ambient Orb, a frosted-glass ball lamp which maps information to a linear color spectrum and displays the trend in the data.

Ambient Devices, Inc. is a privately held company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA that designs and markets various ambient devices for display of information ranging from weather to traffic reports to stock quotes.

From the 1980s forward, dub has been influenced by, and has in turn influenced, techno, Dubtronica / Dub techno, jungle, drum and bass, dubstep, house music, punk and post-punk, trip hop, ambient music, and hip hop, with many electronic dub or dubtronica tracks, as well as Ambient dub, produced by nontraditional rastafarian musicians from these other genres.

German Ambient band Forma Tadre has an album titled The Music Of Erich Zann.

The EPA has designated over 300 counties of the United States, clustered around the most heavily populated areas ( especially in California and the Northeast ), as failing to comply with the National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

Scuff has been described as " a clearly defined genre that sits at 96BPM involves the use of Ambient Pads, Vocal Samples and Sidechained Reverb.

In 2011, a double-CD digipak limited edition of Sombre Printemps (" Ambient & Film Music 1 + 2 ") has been released on Out Of Line.

( In fact, a sub-genre dubbed " Ritual Ambient " has evolved in recent years, exemplified by work of such groups as Herbst9 and Desiderii Marginis, amongst others.

He delivers keynotes and seminars at international events, and his work has been featured in major publications, including Business Week, Fortune, and The Wall Street Journal ( Morville, Ambient Findability ). Peter is best known as a founding father of information architecture, having coauthored the field's best-selling book, '" Information Architecture for the World Wide Web "' ( ISBN 978-0596527341, AKA " the Polar Bear Book ") ( Morville, Ambient Findability ).

He has also co-organized numerous workshops on Unanticipated Software Evolution, Aspect-Oriented Programming, Object Technology for Ambient Intelligence, Lisp, and redefinition of computing.

323205 has been fitted with a new experimental, prototype interior saloon lighting diffuser, called ' BASIL ' ( short for Bright Ambient Sensing Interior Lighting ) which is slimmer, more modern looking and makes the interior look brighter.

Ambient and chill out has a durability about it, which can enhances the state of relaxation.

Ambient, unlike most other Moby studio albums, has never been re-released in a special edition or a remastered issue.

* Ambient Records, a set of four albums produced and recorded by Brian Eno

Ambient house, a genre that fused house music ( particularly acid house ) with ambient music, was being produced in the United Kingdom around this time, by bands such as The Orb.

* Drunken Forest ( Tzadik, 2007 )-Third Death Ambient release, produced by Kato

The other tracks also have their own style, most notably " Flim ", an upbeat song similar in mood to the track " Xtal " from Selected Ambient Works 85 – 92, possessing a cheerful melody and Aphex Twin's signature complex polyrhythms.

From Philip Kotler's landmark paper on Atmospherics and Alan Hirsch's " Effects of Ambient Odors on Slot-Machine Usage in a Las Vegas Casino ", through the creation and management of the Gruen transfer, retail relies heavily on psychology, original research, focus groups, and direct observation.

* Dipak Surie, " Egocentric Interaction for Ambient Intelligence ", PhD.

With a subscription Ambient will provide a particular device with a personalized data feed: an individual stock or portfolio, windspeed near your boat, the weekend weather forecast at your lake house, your book's position on Amazon, firewall status, wait-times at your hospital, customer satisfaction for your bank, etc.

The 1970 Amendments to the Clean Air Act established National Ambient Air quality Standards and required states to implement plans to adhere to these standards.

In the late 1970s he collaborated with trumpeter Jon Hassell for a couple albums on Brian Eno's Ambient label ; these albums used several of Klarwein's " inscapes " on their covers.

The Ambient Networks infrastructure does not deal with nodes, instead it deals with networks, though at the beginning, all the " networks " might only consist of just one node: these " networks " need to merge to form a network in the original sense of the word.

The newly composed ACS will of course have its own ANI, ASI and ARI, and will use these interfaces to merge with other Ambient Networks.

Ambient cistern may also refer to the combination of these extensions and the superior cistern.

Usually the focus is around Dark Ambient, Minimalism, and Drone ; however, the band is not limited to just these genres.

Ambient devices are a new genre of consumer electronics characterized by their ability to be perceived at-a-glance ( also called " glanceable ").

Ambient devices utilize pre-attentive processing to display information: the ability for the brain to perceive information without any apparent cognitive load.

Ambient intelligence is closely related to the long term vision of an intelligent service system in which technologies are able to automate a platform embedding the required devices for powering context aware, personalized, adaptive and anticipatory services.

In 1998, the board of management of Philips commissioned a series of presentations and internal workshops, organized by Eli Zelkha and Brian Epstein of Palo Alto Ventures ( who, with Simon Birrell, coined the name ' Ambient Intelligence ') to investigate different scenarios that would transform the high-volume consumer electronic industry from the current “ fragmented with features ” world into a world in 2020 where user-friendly devices support ubiquitous information, communication and entertainment.

* awareIT – News blog about Ambient Intelligence, Ubiquitous Computing and intelligent devices.

Ambient does not strictly follow the Amiga Workbench interface paradigm but there are still many similarities: while programs are called tools program attributes are called tooltypes, data files are projects and directories are drawers.

During the 90s, many releases included recordings of classical compositions: Pictures at an Exhibition ( on Turn of the Tides ), Largo ( from Xerxes ) ( on Tyranny of Beauty ), Symphony in A Minor ( by J. S. Bach ), and Concerto in A Major / Adagio ( by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ) ( both on Ambient Monkeys ).

Following the development of trance music in Germany, many Trance genres stemmed from the original trance music and most trance genres developed in Germany, most notably " Anthem trance " or also called " uplifting " or " epic " trance, progressive trance, and " Ambient trance ".

Ambient pressure suits are a form of exposure protection protecting the wearer from the cold.

In 1995, she began collaborating with Japanese bass guitarist Kato Hideki ( from Ground Zero ), and together with experimental guitarist Fred Frith ( from Henry Cow ), they formed Death Ambient.

* used in the Aphex Twin song, " We are the Music Makers " from the album Selected Ambient Works 85-92.

The term Ambient music is generally used when more, but often less distinguishable, influences, like elements of Jazz or sounds from nature, are mingled in the " soundscape.

He voted against Republican amendments of the FY 2011 spending bill, which would defund many environmental protection measures, such as the modification of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards ( NAAQS ), the designation of fossil fuel combustion waste as hazardous material, and the enforcement of mining regulations from the EPA.

A track from the 1992 sessions also was featured on the 1994 Bill Laswell-produced " Lost in the Translation: Axiom Ambient " various artists compilation.

# " The Fool, the Meddling Idiot " ( from Hostile Ambient Takeover )

Eleven years later, Ocean of Sound appeared, described as Toop's " poetic survey of contemporary musical life from Debussy through Ambient, Techno, and drum ' n ' bass.

A coalition of environmental groups petitioned the EPA on April 6, 2011 to designate ammonia as a " criteria pollutant " and establish National Ambient Air Quality Standards ( NAAQS ) for ammonia from CAFOs.

They have published Ambient music from the likes of Brian Eno or Biosphere.

Ambient space dubs, technological cut-ups and Gregorian chants texture the sound, but the fire at the heart of the noise comes from good old guitar.

Ambient light originating from other sources may reach the eye immediately after having reflected from the screen surface, giving no advantage over a white high-gain screen in terms of contrast ratio.

The concept of Ambient Networks comes from the IST Ambient Network project, which is a research project sponsored by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme ( FP6 ).

The Deliverable D1-5 " Ambient Networks Framework Architecture " summarizes the work from phase 1 and provides links to other relevant material.

New thinking on Ambient Intelligence distances itself therefore from some of the original characteristics such as adaptive and anticipatory behaviour and emphasizes empowerment and participation to place control in the hands of people instead of organizations.

* ISTAG Ambient Intelligence: from vision to reality