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A sensor-driven life: IT companies wire up cities of the future
In a hospital somewhere, a patient falls out of bed. A loud alarm goes off, and nurses rush in. Then three blood pressure monitors and a crash cart go missing from the ER. Operations managers quickly...
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Dylan's Desk: The last thing I need is an interactive refrigerator
I don’t want a refrigerator that talks to me. If I’m getting up in the middle of a Netflix binge session to get a beer, I can just open the door to the fridge and look to see if it has any more...
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Thermostat veteran Honeywell takes on Google and Apple as it attempts to...
It was only a matter of time before veterans of the home temperature-regulating industry took bold steps to compete with Nest, the current darling of the “connected home” scene. You can’t blame them...
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Philips opens up preorders for 'Hue Lux,' its new white light smart bulbs
Philips is now letting people preorder its new smart lightbulb kit the Hue Lux on its website as well as other online retailers like Apple. Philips first smart bulb kit was the Hue, which offered three...
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Look out Roomba, LG’s Hom-Bot smart vacuum is cleaning house (hands-on)
Automated vacuum cleaners aren’t new, but over time they have become far more interesting to the tech industry than you’d think — especially LG’s new Hom-Bot. With Hom-Bot, LG is betting that consumers...
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5 smart home gadgets we’re excited about from CES
FEATURE: Aside from wearables, no other sector of gadgets seemed more present at the 2015 International CES than connected home electronics. While some pushed back against this trend with high-end...
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Here’s what the smart home market will look like in 2016
GUEST: Many of the big players competing in the smart home space made significant bets this past year. Among the tech titans, Apple rolled out an improved version of HomeKit; Alphabet-owned Nest...
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Samsung is adding SmartThing hubs to its 2016 HD TVs to control connected...
Your next Samsung HD television could be a hub that ties all the connected devices in your home together. The Korea-based electronics manufacturer revealed today that its 2016 smart TV lineup will...
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Half of Americans will have smart-home tech by end of 2016
About 45 percent of all Americans will either own smart-home technology or invest in it by the end of 2016, according to a survey by real estate brokerage firm Coldwell Banker. Coldwell Banker polled...
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Vinli lets you control your smart home from your smart car
Everyone is creating smart homes and smart cars. But so far, the two are not talking to each other. Vinli wants to fix that. The Dallas-based company said today it wants to end fragmentation among...
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Your Amazon Echo will soon unlock doors
Amazon debuted a Door Lock API today that gives the makers of locks connected to the internet the power to lock or unlock doors with Alexa. The API is part of the Alexa Skills Kit. As part of the...
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Google Assistant now supports August Smart Lock, Wink, and 11 other smart...
Google Assistant and Google Home users now have a lot more ways to use the intelligent assistant to control lights, locks, and other Internet of Things gadgets as integrations with devices from more...
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Consumers understand smart homes and cars, but don’t want to pay for them yet
About 86 percent of Americans say they know what the term “smart home” means, but not nearly as many are willing to pay for one. Roughly 59 percent say that cost is the main barrier to adopting smart...
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AI could improve real-time emergency response
GUEST: AI-powered surveillance might sound like the plot of a Spielberg film, but the technology is no longer science fiction. Machine learning is used to improve facial recognition algorithms,...
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August Home partners with Deliv for same-day in-home deliveries
August Home today announced a partnership with same-day delivery service Deliv to provide in-home delivery of groceries and packages. The goal of the partnership is to pair Deliv’s services for brands...
View Article2013 will be the year of ‘the Internet of things’ as more than 5B wireless...
Over five billion wireless connectivity chips will ship in 2013, according to ABI Research, as our appetite for everything mobile continues to grow. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are both growing, of course, but...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s HomeOS brings smarter homes, blue hallway of death
Microsoft’s research division comes up with some pretty cool stuff, like its Holoflector augmented reality mirror, but its latest project is much more homely. To be more precise, the company debuted...
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The smart-lighting race: How Belkin’s WeMo aims to outsmart Philips Hue (review)
Nowhere is the war for the smart home raging harder than on the lighting front. Traditional players and new contenders with connected lighting products are duking it out to replace the humble...
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CES 2022: AI is driving innovation in ‘smart’ tech
At CES 2022, a slew of smart tech innovations driven by AI and aimed at improving lives and businesses, are being unveiled publicly.Read More
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