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Facebook Will Soon Connect Your Home Devices

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Facebook could soon invade your home, no longer connecting you to just your friends but also to your home appliances and other “smart” devices. To make it happen, Facebook on Wednesday introduced new services through Parse, its mobile app development platform, that will help software developers build for the Internet of Things. Parse founder and CEO… Continue reading “Facebook Will Soon Connect Your Home Devices”

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A Cat Inspired This Start-up’s ‘Internet of Lost Things’

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Pixie’s Augmented Reality-connected location technology in action (Photo credti: Courtesy) There’s the Internet of Things (IoT), where everything from a car to a refrigerator turns “smart,” with sensors that vacuum in data and upload it the cloud for analysis. Now, an Israeli start-up called Pixie has a new twist on that idea – a system that… Continue reading “A Cat Inspired This Start-up’s ‘Internet of Lost Things’”

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LEGO Fusion Is Augmented Reality for Tweens

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Augmented Reality (AR) is not just the stuff of wearable displays (like Google Glass and Microsoft’s HoloLens), ghostly virtual assistants, and floating keyboards any more. In a perfectly appropriate blend of real and virtual innovation, LEGO has found a way to use AR that embellishes the building blocks and increases creativity and real-world play (rather than take away from it) with the LEGO Fusion group of sets. Continue reading LEGO Fusion Is Augmented Reality for Tweens

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IoT Is Making You Its Business, Maybe You Should Make It Yours

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It’s not going to happen tomorrow and maybe not even within the next 5 years, but soon purchasing a good of almost any kind that isn’t ‘connected’ will be a challenge, or perhaps even a touted feature of a product. The simple reason for this encroaching reality lies in the rapid trend of IoT getting its… Continue reading “IoT Is Making You Its Business, Maybe You Should Make It Yours”

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Apple HomeKit Devices Won’t Include Google’s Nest Thermostat

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The first products to use Apple Inc.’s HomeKit software, which controls smart home products using the iPhone as a remote control, are not likely to roll out until this spring, according to new reports. The delay purportedly is due to the company’s guidelines, which specify the hardware and wireless technologies that will work with HomeKit, Re/code… Continue reading “Apple HomeKit Devices Won’t Include Google’s Nest Thermostat”