For one week, I became a helicopter cat parent. I had just placed a Petcube, a palm-sized cube that contains a camera, speaker and laser-pointer, on my bookshelf. With a few… Read more »
I love the idea of the internet of things, I really do. But as a renter I don’t want to buy a Nest or any other device that I would need to… Read more »
When designers stray too far from a product’s original purpose, it doesn’t work. Ammunition founder Robert Brunner offered up a checklist at Gigaom Roadmap that companies should check every time they… Read more »
Connected devices are all the rage at hardware accelerators in San Francisco. HAX’s fifth batch of startups debuted a circuit printer, modern answer to a Polaroid camera and lots of robots. Read more »
SmartThings provides a platform for bringing a house online. Someday all devices may be connected, and SmartThings will be there for the people who need an easy system. Read more »
Home robot Jibo’s Indiegogo campaign was scheduled to close over the weekend, but after raising more than $1.75 million the robot’s creators have decided to keep the campaign open through September 14… Read more »
The startup recently canceled its crowdfunding campaign and shifted from consumer to enterprise customers. It will focus on industrial and medical applications before returning to working on a device for the… Read more »
We are already surrounded by bots in the form of ATMs, GPS systems and Nest thermostats. Our appliances will become autonomous one by one, but we’ll still refuse to call them… Read more »
The incubator’s second class of companies once again was heavily focused on connected devices, from a digital picture frame to a “smart button” that can trigger any action on a mobile… Read more »