This year, I wanted to avoid giving IoT gifts, partly because I hadn't tested as many products as I normally do and partly because I think everyone is pretty turned off by the potential for security risks and privacy encroachments. I have seen at … [Read more...]
All hail the future of tech-enabled dumb devices
As technology pervades more devices, the assumption is that these gadgets should have some form of internet connection. But some of my favorite gadgets this year have been devices or services that don't require a connection back to the web to work. … [Read more...]
The chickens are coming home to roost in the smart home
The smart home is dead. I'm not sure exactly when the time of death should have been called, but it happened at some point between Google trying to rebrand the smart home as "the helpful home" and the publication of this article, which expresses … [Read more...]
Podcast: How a smarter edge can make schools safer
This week on the show, Kevin and I started with a discussion of reports of how smart speakers can receive remote commands from a hacker with a laser. We then shifted gears to talk about company research showing how much data your smart homes are … [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 this is an issue of people accidentally using the … [Read more...]