Erin Sparling and Nicholas Hall are internet developers, inventors and half-brothers residing in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This yr they may be throwing a fresh Year’s Eve party,
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To get in, revelers just have to show up, check in on Foursquare via their mobile phones, and voila, the building’s door will open for them.
“We’ve been using the system to get in for over a month now,” says Hall. “People think we’re psychic, because they see us showing up to the apartment and getting buzzed in the second we arrive.”
Sparling, 30, and Hall,
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Sparling leads the Design Technology department at the Wall Street Journal, where his brother is a frequent consultant. The pair have turned their apartment into a hi-tech home studio, filled with equipment for photography, development and design.
“The way this Door invention came about is, we have all these great gadgets and we wanted our friends to be able to use them,” says Hall. “So we brought in some extra desks and turned this place into a sort of co-working space.” They named the spot Apartm.net, which is also their websites.
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"The developer API allows people to have an incredible amount of access to data that's generated by Foursquare. So one can build applications with great breadth: from games that are built on top to visualizations of checkin history to maps of trending places in your city," says Selvandurai. "We particularly like this hack because it has an interaction with the physical planet – and part of the goal of Foursquare is to get you out from behind your computer at home."
The brothers have made a video each 12 months to promote their New Year’s Eve bash, but this yr things have become a little more complicated. “The video has gone viral on the website, so yeah, we’ve sort of invited millions of folks to come to our party,” says Hall with a laugh.
“That’s ok, we love the on-line,
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The boys sat down last night for a late-night planning session. On the agenda, designing a Do-It-Yourself kit that would allow anyone to recreate their Door project on their own. “The software part, with Foursquare, is easy,” says Sparling. “But creating a door attachment that works universally is going to require some thinking.” They may be considering creating a Kickstarter project to fund the development.
Extra planning will also be necessary to protect the boys' incredible assortment of geeky items if the party turns into a mega-rager. A shrine in the residing room features every single console ever made by Nintendo, including the original Gameboy with both the camera and printer extensions.
Their prize possession is the coffee table. It's a G4 model Xserve, the server that powers their personal site, among others. “We try not to spill too much beer on it,” says Hall.
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