Xerox is spinning out its predictive maintenance technology: Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) has spun out Novity, a predictive maintenance technology startup. Like other predictive maintenance software, Novity uses equipment sensors and … [Read more...]
Podcast: Google inches toward a smarter home
This week Kevin and I discuss the news from Google's smart home event, and what it means for the big players in the game, standards efforts, your television, and whether Amazon can compete without a smartphone when it comes to the smart home. From … [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...]
Voice control won’t always need connectivity
Voice control is the next big interaction model for computers. While it's not appropriate for every task, it's excellent for controlling simple devices without the use of keyboards and screens. And since we're putting computing into everything from … [Read more...]