It's been two years since I moved from my home in Austin to a rental home on Bainbridge Island outside of Seattle, and one year since I moved into my permanent home here. Which means I've had ample time to set up a new smart home infrastructure that … [Read more...]
Podcast: Everything from CES 2021 and a bit about LoRa
This week's show is mostly about CES 2021, starting with an array of interesting devices that were launched. We covered a lot of them here, but we also mentioned a $3,000 pet door, an energy harvesting NB-IoT modem demonstration, and Kevin's take on … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for May 15, 2020
AI could be the secret to better energy harvesting: For IoT to become truly ubiquitous we need to ditch both wires and batteries. Researchers at Newcastle University in the UK and the Uppsala University in Sweden have been working on using different … [Read more...]
Let’s start a consumer bill of rights for connected devices
Every innovation comes with a learning curve. In particular, every new technology has a period when people are just trying to figure out what they can do with it. I get that. But technology adoption is moving ever faster. Indeed, the chart showing … [Read more...]
The highlight of CES day 2 was new interfaces
Monday was another media day at CES and I woke up planning to hit Bosch's event and Qualcomm's. Kevin was heading to Samsung's. Only I didn't make mine. After breakfast, my eyes swelled shut so I spent my morning doped up on Benadryl. But this wasn't … [Read more...]