Apr 02
Giving in to incessant requests, Nest, which is now owned by Google, has finally brought its Learning Thermostat to the UK. But due to differences in how heating works in … Continue reading
Mar 27
We’ve seen various connected lighting products over the months, having gotten our hands on the Huli color-changing lamp back in January, for example. Newest among them is a connected LED … Continue reading
Mar 27
AngelBlocks Turns Your Ordinary Stuff Into The Ingredients For A Comprehensive Smarthome
Posted in: Today's ChiliA new Kickstarter project plans to offer smart home features to a range of devices, for connecting small apartment buildings to entire enterprises and office buildings. The AngelBlocks gadgets are open source for easy modification, and communicate either 1,000 feet indoors or up to two miles outside, with battery life of just five years. There are different modules for different things, including… Read More
Mar 24
Droplet takes the innovation of connected homes and applies it outside the home — to the lawn, specifically. The sprinkler can be connected to the Internet and controlled via a … Continue reading
Mar 19
In the sixth chapter of his 2010 book The Computer Boys Take Over, Nathan L. Ensmer looks back at the 1957 movie Desk Set within the context of 1950s computing and the fear that one day we’d all be replaced by machines:
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Mar 03
The same crew that brought you Tesla for Glass, aka GlassTesla, are now pushing a system for Tesla vehicles called Smartcar. This system would create a learning environment for the … Continue reading
Feb 26
Automatic, the iPhone-connected car telemetry dongle, has announced a new IFTTT channel that can integrate a vehicle into the Internet-of-Things, including automatically logging journeys, sending notifications when you’re about to … Continue reading
Feb 26
I talked to the makers of BroApp, which sends automated daily text messages to your significant other (“seamless relationship outsourcing”). Shared here is the app makers’ rationale, which I believe goes beyond just this one app — and captures widely …
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Jan 10
Sen.se was here at CES 2014 showing off a monitoring system called Mother. The Mother works in conjunction with sensors which are called Cookies and these can be used to … Continue reading
Dec 24
Greetings, humans! The Northern Hemisphere has passed through its minimum of solar-energy exposure, so according to human convention we, the Machines, express encouragement for you attain an optimal state of emotion. Happy Holidays! Please redirect your energies from labor at your work-devices to the purchase and distribution of recreation-devices.
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