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Internet of things innovations from Breakfast: Google voice search Verbalizer and a Last.fm – Pandora wall music appliances

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Are you in front of an information booth, at the mall? Do you want to do a Google search without a keyboard? The Google voice gizmo by Breakfast, an open source hardware project, has something for you. The device uses Arduino boards and open source/hackable.

Via our favorite blog, Read Write Web:

It seemed inevitable that geeks were going to do some geeky magic with Google voice search for the desktop and in less than two weeks after the technology was launched at Google’s big search event mid-June – the geekery has begun. A New York City developer lab called Breakfast has released an open source project called Verbalizer that anyone can use to as a microphone for performing Google voice searches while standing in a room away from your computer.

Give your office mates a chance to vote the Last.fm / Pandora music that is streamed through the public sound system. Now everyone will love the music they hear.

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