Ikeas hi-tech table teaches you how to cook
Table can either show you how to make a recipe or suggest meals to make based on what ingredients you have Ikea has predicted how the kitchen of the future will look, and its most revolutionary idea is...
View ArticleLondon Startup Brings Emotional Intelligence To The Connected Home
Most of us are probably guilty of anthropomorphizing inanimate objects, at least to some degree. We shout at our laptops when their screens freeze (because of course they can hear and understand every...
View ArticleCanonical And GE Announce Smart Fridge Powered By Snappy Ubuntu Core
At the IoT World 2015 event in San Francisco, Canonical announced a set of new partnerships that take its lean and mean Linux operating system, Snappy Ubuntu Core to the mainstream. The most...
View ArticleFirst Batch Of Apple-Certified Smart Home Devices Will Launch Next Month
HomeKit, Apple’s protocol for hooking up smart home gadgets in iOS, has been a long time coming. It was first announced at Apple’s June 2014 developers conference, but we haven’t heard much else since...
View ArticleVirtual Rooms For The Apple Smart Home Sound Like A Great Idea
Since Apple announced its HomeKit smart home initiative last year, it’s been mostly quiet about just how iPhones and other Apple gadgets will wrangle those connected devices. Now, however, the company...
View ArticleGoogle I/O 2015: What you should expect
This article originally appeared on The Next Web With Google’s annual conference right around the corner, we’re left anticipating what news is on the horizon. Though Google I/O is meant for developers,...
View ArticleA HomeKit Forecast: From Zero To 180 Million Gadgets By 2020
While most of the news about Apple over the past few months has centered on their new wearable, Apple Watch, many in the smart home space have been working frantically to prepare for the launch of...
View ArticleControl your home from an app for £200: Samsung brings SmartThings technology...
Samsung has launched its SmartThings platform for the connected home in the UK, including a £199 starter kit with a hub and a variety of sensors Smartphone maker Samsung is getting ready to take over...
View ArticleWhy Amazon’s Echo is totally dominating — and what Google, Microsoft, and...
We’re barely halfway through January of 2017, and it’s already looking like this is going to be the year of Amazon’s Alexa, the virtual assistant at the heart of the Amazon Echo. In 2016, the Amazon...
View ArticleAmazon Echo and Google Home may soon be able to make voice calls
The Amazon Echo and Google Home could be used to make and receive phone calls later this year, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal’s Ryan Knutson and Laura Stevens. Citing “people...
View ArticleWhy Apple is ‘losing badly’ in the smart home market
Despite what it would seem, Apple was actually early to the smart home market. The 2014 release of the HomeKit app introduced the concept of what should have been an easy and popular introduction for...
View ArticleHow Ikea is transforming itself into a smart home company
People make fun of Ikea as a company that sells lower quality furniture that takes hours to put together, but the company has made it easier for everyone to buy furniture they could not afford...
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