Things that Think is a research program sponsored by the MIT Labs. Some of the work that is being done includes studying the physical design of smart things, developing a range of technologies to enable unobtrusive embedded sensing, computing, and communication in familiar everyday objects. Electronic Library of the Stanford University Department of Engineering. Finding web-based resources is getting easier, but be prepared for a fair amount of frustration as you find your way around. Try some of the search engines available and compare results.
Search engines provide keyword access to websites.
Some include subject listings are well. One of the subject-oriented search engines is Yahoo . Try it and put in the term mobile computing and see what you get. There is everything from listings of institutes on mobile computing to advertisements selling wearable computers. If you use WWW resources, make sure you critically evaluate everything you find.