Nest Labs brings the ‘smart home’ to life
Mercedes-Benz, Jawbone and Whirlpool are among the first companies to integrate their products with Nest’s smart thermostat and smoke alarm Google-owned thermostat and smoke alarm maker, Nest Labs, has...
View ArticleMillions of UK households to be ‘smart’ by end of the year
British households are coming round to the idea of the home automation, with 11 per cent expected to be ‘smart’ by the end of the year One in nine UK households will contain at least one smart system...
View ArticleVacationers, Let Your Smart Home House-Sit Itself
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes. Three years ago, a pipe burst in Alex Hawkinson’s family vacation home when he was away. “We found it totally...
View ArticleNetworked Home Gadgets Offer Hackers New Opportunities
Connected appliances such as TVs can provide hackers a way into your house. Connecting a new appliance to your home’s Wi-Fi network or broadband modem could increase the risk that data such as...
View ArticleThe Future Smart City Will Be Built Around You and the Internet of You
Pssshhhhhhtttt. Like a shot of steam in your morning latte, the sound of train doors opening injects vitality into any urban commute. But imagine that at 7:18 a.m. on Monday in the London Underground...
View ArticleThe problem with designing for smart homes? You don’t have any users
This article originally appeared on The Next Web Henrik Holen is the CEO and co-founder of Viva Labs, a next-generation smart home platform for ISPs, cable companies and utilities. Want to make a...
View ArticleVoice Recognition for the Internet of Things
With natural-language processing aided by crowdsourced data, Wit.ai aims to make smartphones, wearables, and drones heed your call. It’s not unusual to find yourself talking to an uncoöperative...
View ArticleHow Twitter will power the Internet of Things
Twitter is no longer just about connecting people to one another but about connecting machines to machines If you want to announce something publicly to the world, Twitter is usually the quickest,...
View ArticleGoogle Lines Its Smart Home Nest Again … With Revolv
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes. According to the experts, we may all be living in a smart home before long. Google wants it to be theirs....
View ArticleGoogle’s Half-Finished Attempt to Take Over the Living Room
Google’s Nexus Player lets you stream videos and music to your TV from the Web, and play games, too. Google’s Nexus Player should appeal to those who want smarter TVs. But it will need to do much more...
View ArticleAmazon Goes All Siri On Your Living Room
Amazon’s new device takes the personal assistant features of Siri, Google Now, and Cortana and bundles them into one big speaker that sits in your living room. Or wherever else you’d like to tell it...
View ArticleDigital Storage And The Internet Of Things
The Internet of Things is a hot topic recently. As the power of inexpensive low power microprocessors increases they are appearing in more and more devices and products. By networking these devices...
View ArticleKey To Internet Of Things: Consumer Empowerment
The Internet of Things (IoT) may sound like the next great area of innovation to drive consumer convenience and capability – until the details sink in. Do we really want big companies dictating how we...
View ArticleHow to Keep Your Internet-Connected Home Safe and Secure
From smart thermostats like the Nest to always-on security cameras, every year we add more appliances and gadgets to our homes that connect to the internet. Some offer great features like remote...
View ArticleCES 2015: The Internet of Just About Everything
At CES, where Internet-connected devices abound, Samsung says all its products will be connected by 2020. During his keynote speech Monday evening at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las...
View ArticleThe ultimate high-tech home
From a speaking fire alarm to a loo that wipes your bottom, there is no end to the things your house can do for you Picture the scene: you’re on the train on your way home from work, knackered. All you...
View ArticleHow Your Need For Detergent And Coffee Will Fuel Amazons Smart Home
Amazon has a bold new gadget, and it’s a button. It’s literally a stick-on, Internet-connected button that, when pressed, sends a “Bat-Signal” to Amazon to order more dog food, coffee, detergent or...
View ArticleIkeas 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...
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