Few things make you simultaneously wish you were in someone’s shoes and feel so glad that you’re not as watching someone jam out to a Paul McCartney concert via an immersive virtual reality headset in front of a room full of people. Yes, the guy who donned the headset and boogied down at the start […]
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Lenovo Health has joined forces with Orbita, a connected home healthcare technology vendor, to unveil a virtual home care system at HIMSS17 based on two recently debuted products: Lenovo Smart Assistant and Orbita Voice. Lenovo’s Smart Assistant, first previewed at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, is a voice-controlled speaker for the home that combines
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Press Release: August Home Inc, a leading provider of smart locks and smart home access products and services, announced it added the ability to unlock the August Smart Lock with a voice command using Alexa-enabled devices. Users are able to ask Alexa to “unlock my door,” using a secure voice PIN code in addition to
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How Cisco Systems Performed in Fiscal 2Q17 PART 5 OF 10 By Adam Rogers | Feb 20, 2017 2:56 pm EST Cisco acquired AppDynamics for $3.7 billion In January 2017, Cisco Systems (CSCO) made headlines when it announced its acquisition of AppDynamics. Cisco offered $3.7 billion in equity and cash to AppDynamics, nearly double the
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By a lucky coincidence, I had a chance to drive both the 2017 Prius Prime and the 2017 Hyundai Ioniq in the same week. The Prius Prime is a plug-in hybrid with a futuristic vibe; the Hyundai Ioniq comes in hybrid, plug-in hybrid and electric versions. The Prius lineup and the Ioniq lineup are competing
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The German distributor of talking doll My Friend Cayla insists it is safe to use but takes hacking claims “very seriously”. The distributor of a talking doll which has been banned in Germany due to security concerns insists it is not an “espionage device”. Vivid GmbH said it was taking the allegations about My Friend
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Luma is a new startup that launched in June 2016. The company makes a cutting-edge Wi-Fi router to combat the issue of wireless “dead zones”—using several smaller routers around a home to create what’s known as a mesh network to provide whole-home Wi-Fi coverage. Luma was founded by Paul Judge and Mike Van Bruinisse. Both are
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Mylestone is a service that lets people catalogue their thoughts and memories on Amazon’s Alexa Mylestone is a service that connects the dots with data, effectively building memories from an otherwise drab stack of digital files. Working through the Amazon Alexa platform, Mylestone makes sense of your images. The app builds stories that read like “memories”, mining
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Image Source | Youtube.com Bond isn’t just your run-of-the-mill smart home accessory. It’s actually meant to add some Internet of Things utility to older devices that have no access to the internet. Is that even possible? It can do this by learning the signals from the different remotes and rebroadcasting them when prompted through Alexa
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HAMPSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM–(Marketwired – February 20, 2017) – A new report from Juniper Research forecasts that smart home automation and monitoring devices will grow to over 770 million globally by 2021, representing an eleven-fold rise from just 68 million estimated in 2016. The new research, Smart Home Markets: Entertainment, Monitoring, Automation, Health, Metering, Appliances 2017-2021,