In a resolution adopted Tuesday, the European Parliament officially endorsed the development of the Internet of Things. This resolution frankly encourages the development of an Internet of Things in the European Union. It even calls on the European IoT Commission to “secure co-financing for the implementation of these technologies” and “continue funding pilot projects.”

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/parliament_of_things.php

The TEI conference is a must for people that are interested on Tangible interface research.
This year the conference was held at the MIT Media Lab, located in the heart of the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
At TEI the latest innovations and researches in that field are presented and discussed. TEI is an exciting event that grasp the most crazy and smart people that work on Tangible Embedded Interface.
Visit the website and have fun in reading the papers all available online!