It’s one of the vaguest terms in the tech industry. (Perhaps rivaled only by “the cloud.”) You may or may not know what it means. But hopefully you do know that it’s worth billions of dollars. We’re talking about the Internet of Things (IoT). In this article, we’re breaking down the basic concept of IoT […]
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Omate announced the Omate Rise Limited Edition smartwatch with Amazon Alexa Voice Service available later this year. The watch will be available for pre-order Sept. 1-3, 2016 on the Omate Rise Indiegogo page for $199 and will start shipping in Dec., 2016. Starting Jan., 2017, the price will increase to $349. The Omate Rise Carbon
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The Omate Rise is a smartwatch with a round display, an Android-based operating system, and support for WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and 3G cellular data. Omate ran a crowdfunding campaign for the watch last year and began shipping the Omate Rise earlier in 2016. Now the company has announced that the Omate Rise is getting a new feature:
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Hands full? The Philips Hue Motion Sensor lets you control lights without using a smartphone or switch. Just walk on by. Automatic Philips Hue lights without using a smartphone or switch. This could be useful when you enter your house with your hands full of groceries, or when you wake up in the middle of
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Drones are a capitivating IoT example According to a report from retail research firm NPD Group, sales of drones have more than tripled over the last year, reaching around $200 million. The increasing interest in using these aerial devices is one of the best illustrations of how lower prices and the demand for connectivity is driving the
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Smart TVs, also referred to as hybrid or connected TVs, are television sets with the inbuilt capacity to connect to the internet. This capability allows users to access online services such as instant messaging, video on demand, web browsing, social media and many others. Smart TVs are becoming an increasingly popular option for many households,
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The term “machine learning” covers a grab bag of algorithms, techniques, and technology that are by now pretty much everywhere in modern life. However, machine intelligence has recently started to be used not just for identifying problems but to build better products. Amongst the first is the world’s only beers brewed with the help of
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Tweet Share We’re bringing you the funk this week with the Internationale Funkausstellung show in Berlin. Better known by its acronym IFA, Tom Warren, Vlad Savov, James Vincent, Max Jeffrey, and Vjeran Pavic will be bringing you all the latest gadgets and tech from Europe’s biggest electronics exhibition. Sony’s Xperia X Compact looks likely to
Within one morning of playing around with a new Amazon Tap device, my 8-year-old daughter resorted to the scatological. To which the artificially-intelligent Alexa software responded, “Sorry, I can’t find the answer to the question I heard,” like an unflappable librarian with no sense of humor. Alexa is smart enough not to go there. Thank goodness.
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Philips knows that building a smart home lighting ecosystem doesn’t mean just bombarding the market with different types of Wi-Fi-connected light bulbs. On the heels of the introduction of Hue wall switches last year, Philips has just debuted the new Hue motion sensor for its lighting system. The tiny square sensor is meant to be placed anywhere
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