Products, discussion and more from the world of IoT
Launching this autumn, Howz is a way in which families can keep up to date with the wellbeing of elderly relatives. The technology will inform you if something isn’t quite right and provide you with insights to help address the situation. The Guardian gives their opinion…
We are a generation struggling to look after elderly relatives. Maybe technology can ease the load
A data specialist from Hove tweets his experience in trying to make a simple cup of tea with his new Wi-Fi kettle…
A key problem seemed to be that Rittman’s kettle didn’t come with software that would easily allow integration with other devices in his home, including Amazon Echo, which, like Apple’s Siri, allows users to tell connected smart devices what to do
Read the full article on The Guardian
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Google have officially launched their new Home device in the US at the company’s hardware-announcing event this week. Home runs on Google’s new voice assistant, and is a direct rival to Amazon’s Echo smart speaker hub launched in the UK only last week.
Google’s advantage is that it has access to more information and voice data than anyone else through 18 years of searches and the advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence that powers it
If you like the idea of starting fire with your smart phone, you might want one of these. But Gareth Corfield at The Register isn’t impressed…
Boasting a “real flame”, the ludicrous Ludela candle comes with a smartphone app that allows idiots who hand over good beer tokens for more than one of these things to control the light (flame) level remotely.
Manufacturers must do more to improve the security of their IoT devices as researchers at the 2nd annual IoT Village, held at DEF CON 24, discover 47 new security vulnerabilities across 23 devices and 21 manufacturers.
Vulnerabilities ranged from fundamental design flaws such as use of plaintext passwords and hard coded passwords, to susceptibility to longstanding attack techniques such as buffer overflows, and command injection.
The Amazon Echo, launched in the US in 2014, is finally coming to the UK. Amazon’s voice-activated home audio speaker system with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity and Alexa Voice Service, arrives on September 28, but is available to pre-order now from Amazon.co.uk. BBC News takes a look…
The machines can answer questions, control other internet-connected devices, build shopping lists and link in to dozens of third-party services including Spotify, Uber and BBC News.
Beko, the global domestic appliance and consumer electronics brand, believes the Internet of Things might fail to catch on with consumers if it’s led purely by technological novelty rather than human needs.
In response to this, the appliance brand has launched a ‘Tomorrow’s Home’ vision and strategy centred around connected products that genuinely enhance real everyday lives. The brand’s approach takes IoT and humanises it, branding it the Internet of Everyday Things.
Beko’s vision for the connected home has been brought to life in a film that premiered at the recent IFA festival in Berlin.
LG has unveiled a Windows 10 smart fridge at the IFA this week in Berlin. Tom Warren from The Verge is intrigued…
It’s actually really impressive to simply look at, and it’s fast and fluid to use. LG’s own Windows 10 apps are designed so you can stick notes to the fridge, set a timer, add recipes and healthy information about meals, or simply mark food that you can see through the translucent display.
With the arrival of Amazon Dash in the UK, Rory Cellan-Jones from BBC News asks are we really that lazy to want to use it?
Amazon brings its Dash push-buttons to the UK, allowing orders to be made without using its website or app.
It was only a matter of time – Fortune has exclusively revealed that Nest‘s entire platform team will now become part of Google, in order to create a unified Internet of Things platform.
The combined group also will continue to work on Google Home, a smart speaker rival to the Amazon Echo, while simultaneously fending off Amazon challenges elsewhere in the smart home.
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