The Internet of Things has been the talk of the tech industry for months now, but communications chip maker Broadcom thinks the conversation’s just getting started.

“It’s a totally new space. It offers … a massive number of projects and efforts and new ideas,” said Brian Bedrosian, senior director of Broadcom’s embedded wireless business, at a media event in San Francisco on Tuesday night. “There’s no monopoly in any particular market.”

Broadcom has a big stake in IoT because it makes the kinds of chips that will connect many home devices, wearables and industrial sensors to wireless networks. On Wednesday, the company introduced the latest tool it hopes will expand that market, a US$19.99 development kit built around its BCM20737 Bluetooth Smart chip with five built-in sensors and a free Apple iOS app. An Android app is coming Oct. 1.

The WICED Sense Tag, the latest in a line of WICED (Wireless Internet Connectivity for Embedded Devices) kits that launched about two years ago, is designed for app coders and non-technical product developers rather than just engineers, Bedrosian said. It costs less than earlier kits, which have been priced around $80 to $100, and includes software for Bluetooth Smart and the sensors, saving developers hours of work, according to the company.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2599410/wireless/broadcom-wants-to-let-1000-iot-devices-bloom-with-1999-development-kit.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+computerworld%2Fnews%2Ffeed+%28Latest+from+Computerworld%29#tk.rss_all

I don’t think the future customer is knowingly using pirate sites but I agree with most other points here.

http://www.videonuze.com/perspective/meet-the-tv-viewer-of-the-future-you-might-not-recognize-her

Acer is first to make a Chromecast box capable of bringing any dumb screen to life. Wait, you mean like Roku and WD TV?

http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/21/acer-chromebox-cxi/?ncid=rss_truncated

Amazing new momentum. Some might say the cup runneth over http://venturebeat.com/2014/08/21/the-smart-cup-no-one-needs-has-raised-3m-and-might-go-to-china/

Another successful line started on Kickstater.

Wireless Monitoring And Home Security System (video)

http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/blink-wireless-monitoring-and-home-security-system-30-07-2014/

The original idea for the shoe was actually to help the visually impaired navigate the world around them. About 90% of the world’s visually impaired live in developing countries, according to the World Health Organization. Around 20% in India alone.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/28/smartshoemadeinindia/

By integrating a basket of public IoT semiconductor companies (highlighted by Goldman Sachs; note: Making S-E-N-S-E of the next mega-trend) with Google Trends’ data containing the phrase “IoT,” we see that an obvious inflection point does not occur until Q4’13 (see Exhibit 1 below). After six consecutive quarters of net asset outflows by growth managers, those firms have finally started to buy into the IoT theme. During the Q4’13 inflection point, Google Trends’ data traversed from a prolonged period of stagnation to rapid ascension. For the first time in two years, companies looking to explore IoT now have the wind at their backs.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/07/24/heres-why-the-internet-of-things-just-became-very-interesting/

In the connected economy, companies need to think about how to add value to the users’ networks. Companies can become fixtures in their industry by finding solutions to problems and letting other companies or users build on that solution, creating more value. It then creates an interdependency that is healthy rather than toxic competition.

http://www.iab.net/iablog/?hub=/hub/15/at/17477248.html#hub15

I think we will see more of this type of partnership emerging over the next few years. Ecosystems collide and the consumer is provided hardware options with limited compatibility
http://venturebeat.com/2014/07/15/nest-samsung-arm-and-others-launch-thread-home-automation-network-protocol/