Local AI assistant
Investigating small language models for useful everyday tasks, with personal data kept on the device.
Artificial intelligenceThe experiment register
Ideas with something to test.
Focused investigations into emerging consumer technology. Each concept defines an objective, a proposed test, and the questions that remain open.
Conceptual experiments
All entries in this register are research concepts. They outline proposed experiments; they are not shipped products or reports of completed tests.
Smart home interoperability
Exploring the boundaries between device ecosystems, shared standards, and dependable home automation.
Connected technologyContext-aware web interface
Considering how an interface can adapt available actions without moving the goalposts for its users.
Human-computer interactionEdge vs cloud AI
A proposed comparison of latency, data exposure, and resource use across local and hosted AI workloads.
Consumer computingConsumer device API playground
Exploring permission boundaries, event delivery, and recovery in consumer-device integrations.
Cloud & distributed systems