It's been a long, tough winter in a lot of the country, but after we're done whining about the cold and shoveling the driveway, there's still time to, if not make lemonade out of these lemons, at least prepare a cup of hot buttered rum. While we've been freezing and salting the sidewalks researchers at Nottingham Trent University are using scanners to find potholes, and the folks at VDC Research have been finding important lessons about the Internet of Things under all that snow.