Epson does it again. Fun use of AR. AMAZEing Maze Game Halloween Costume: http://youtu.be/DJq_SdRMn3Q
Category: Internet of Things
Presenting the Identity of Things
Amazingly insightful.
The Internet of Things (IoT) will create a world-wide connected infrastructure of billions of objects over the next 10 years. Through the use of identity, any person, device, or service could be contained within their associated “Communities of Interest”. Without a unique identifier or an association with a real physical identity, the person, device, or service is inanimate, unable to communicate, or provide context to the information that it has access to, or is able to.
Chromecast vs. Roku Streaming Stick vs. Amazon Fire TV Stick | Digital Trends
Streaming set-top boxes are huge. The Apple TV, once a “hobby” for Apple, has brought in more than $1 billion in revenue for the company. Meanwhile, Roku has devices connected to well over 5 million TVs. But could the set-top box already be on its way out?
The Sectors Where the Internet of Things Really Matters – Simona Jankowski – Harvard Business Review
Specifically, we expect IoT to impact three main areas within industrials: building automation, manufacturing, and resources. Factories and industrial facilities will use the IoT to improve energy efficiency, remote monitoring and control of physical assets, and productivity.
The Internet of Things Will Change Your Company, Not Just Your Products – Joey Fitts – Harvard Business Review
Some good observations but inconclusive in my opinion. The customer relationship is exponentially more important than ever before in the Internet of Things world.
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/10/the-internet-of-things-will-change-your-company-not-just-your-products/
Apple’s TV Strategy is About to Get Very Interesting | Analysis & Insight
Is Apple TV going anywhere?
Based on the company’s current strategy, the worldwide installed base of Apple TV devices will be 22.7 million at the end of 2014 and 73.4 million by the end of 2018. Sound OK? Well, not really when you realize that the installed base of tablets at the end of this year will be 427 million, rising to over 1 billion by the end of 2018.
Here are a couple of other trends that put Apple TV in perspective: smartphones and tablets are now the fastest-growing means of accessing and consuming internet TV content, accounting for 54% of program requests for the BBC’s iPlayer service in February 2014 – up from just 17% in January 2012 (in comparison, smart TV sets, gaming consoles and connected Blu-ray players hardly register). Meanwhile, the number of OTT service accounts is sky-rocketing, from nearly 600 million at the end of 2014 to what we project will be over 1.4 billion by the end of 2018.
With those numbers as a backdrop, Apple TV now seems to be moving at a glacial pace. But more than that, it also seems that Apple TV is developing in a vacuum or, to put it another way, it is heading in a direction that is orthogonal to the wider market.
The Internet Of Things Bluetooth Devices
It’s starting with watches and phones, and moving on to everything in your home. The so-called “internet of things” is all about electronically connecting everything together. This is one of the better reports on what to look for.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-internet-of-things-bluetooth-devices-2014-10
Magic Leap Secures $542M Led By Google For “Lightweight Wearable” Tech That Merges Physical And Digital Worlds
“If you think about what mobile computing is right now, it’s portable, it’s great, and I call it ‘making your hand happy,’ in that you can hold it and it’s great,” Abovitz said. “Your hand is happy, but your eye is not. What I mean by your eye is not happy, if you step outside your office and look at San Francisco Bay, it’s just this visual feast, and there’s no movie theater, there’s no television display, there’s nothing that will ever match the grandeur of what our own brains can create in terms of visual experience.”
The smart-lighting race: How Belkin’s WeMo aims to outsmart
Anyone who says post sales content, experience and relationships are not worth investing in shoukd read this quote from VentureBeat reporter
Everything went swimmingly until the app detected a new firmware update. Dutifully, I hit “update,” and that’s when the wheels fell off. Suddenly, the app couldn’t detect any of the bulbs, and no amount of restarting the app or resetting the WeMo Link (or the bulbs) helped. If anything, it got worse as I ended up in an endless loop of trying to get the WeMo Link to reestablish its connection with my router — something it was apparently unable to do.
The app’s built-in help option drives to a non-mobile friendly Web page that simply outlines your options for resetting the different hardware components. It further advises that if these steps don’t help, you should delete the app and start from scratch. I did. And it finally worked.
Firmware updates are a necessary evil in the world of smart devices, but when they cause such a profound disruption, something is wrong. The average consumer, I’m convinced, would never have had the patience to do what I did and would probably have sent the bulbs back to the retailer in frustration.
Pete Deutschman 