Max Braun, a software engineer at Google, has combined a few hardware and software components to create a mirror that is certainly smarter than all the mirrors I’ve seen in my entire life. This connected device is not cheap (the display panel is $450 alone) but the result is certainly impressive and shows the way …
Category: IoT
In the coming weeks, Amazon expects to release a smaller, portable version of its voice-activated tabletop Echo speaker, building off the device’s surprise success. In 2014 Amazon surprised us with its Fire TV device: you could push a button at the top of the remote to active a universal voice-search function. In late 2014 there …
A report in 2014 by Nielson revealed that 1% surveyed (from a base of 2000 respondents) felt strongly that the smart products they’ve seen or heard about have just been gimmicky, and companies need to work harder to make these products relevant to their lives, and that 58% felt strongly that they won’t upgrade to smart products …