Bose plays both sides with new portable smart speaker: There aren’t too many smart speakers that support both of the top two digital assistants, but Bose is adding another one to the mix. The company this week announced its Bose Portable Smarthome … [Read More...]
Podcast: Which IoT satellite efforts will fail?
This week I get excited about a new home water monitoring product from Phyn while Kevin migrated his Nest account over to a Google account. We also discussed the creation of IKEA's new Home Smart business unit and Amazon's dream of putting Alexa in … [Read More...]
Google Nest Home account migration: It shouldn’t be this hard
Back in May, Google announced that all Nest accounts will eventually be migrated to Google accounts. Fast forward to present day and “eventually” is now here: This week Google made the account migration path available, although it’s not yet a … [Read More...]
More IoT News
Home health care is going to create a security nightmare
Hospital administrators are worried about the security of the institutions they run. Fears around a hacked infusion pump killing a patient, data breaches, and all-too-fresh reminders of entire … [Read More...]
There are 3 different versions of the IoT
We talk about the IoT like it's a monolithic thing, but I've realized that in my head I often break it down into three different components, each with different characteristics. There's consumer IoT, … [Read More...]
Three smart, connected bathroom exhaust fan options to tackle humidity
This past week on the IoT Podcast, Brent called into our voicemail hotline with a question about bathroom exhaust fans. He has a small bathroom in an older home that doesn't have an exhaust fan, so … [Read More...]
IoT News of the week for August 16, 2019
June is doing exactly what it should do: This week, it came to light that a few people have had the experience of their June oven coming on in the middle of the night to cook or pre-heat. June says … [Read More...]
Podcast: Check out this new location tech for IoT
This week Kevin and I continue to follow the never-ending saga of companies who sent people’s voice utterances to contractors without disclosure and pile on with more disconcerting news about Amazon’s … [Read More...]