I've been thinking for the last few months that we've misled people about the promise of the smart home, and perhaps as an industry, we need to focus on the basics before promising these intuitive homes of the future. I recently built a … [Read more...]
Perfect Co. buys Google-backed company’s assets
The Orange Chef, a smart kitchen startup that managed to get its connected scale into Williams Sonoma stores and score $1.2 million in funding from Google, has finally closed the book on its hardware business. The company, which made an iPad cover … [Read more...]
Do we really need a personal assistant?
I spent a lot of time this week talking about personal assistants thanks to Google finally announcing its operating system for the internet of things (dubbed Android Things) and taking its Weave communications protocol out of developer preview. The … [Read more...]