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A Tag to Make a Cuddly Toy, Smart #CES2016
There are many questions and concerns about the long-term effects of the relationships infants and young children are developing with electronic gadgets. When the gadget starts to look like a cuddly toy, it must be particularly confusing for a young mind. Smarty Crew’s Oliba brings the parent back into the equation with their smart tag…
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Analytics – Making the Smart Home More Efficient
Smart thermostats brought the first wave of intelligence to whole-home heating and cooling. Relatively low-cost control of vents to direct heat and cooling to specific rooms, such as shown in this development on display at International CES 2015, could be considered the next advance in temperature management efficiency. Combining these developments into analytics to determine…
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Carrier Network Virtualization Becoming Real
The shift from purpose-built to white-box hardware with network functions enabled by software is building momentum, based on the presentations and demonstrations at the Carrier Network Virtualization conference. Featuring speakers and attendees from carriers and providers, such as AT&T, Google, NTT and Vodafone, this multi-day conference provided an excellent overview of the motivations and current status…
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The Fuel Tank of Tomorrow – A Super Capacitor?
Energy storage is one of the biggest challenges facing a number of technologies from the Internet of Things to renewable energy to electric cars. Although batteries are making slow and steady progress, challenges with parameters such as energy density, rate of charge, temperature, safety, and life cycle have, in turn, slowed down the progress of end…
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Silence – The All-Purpose, Electric Vehicle Advantage #CES2016
With their limited range, the adoption of electric vehicles in rural areas is lagging behind urban locales. Polaris may start to change that dynamic with its introduction of the first Li-Ion battery-powered all-wheel, off-road electric vehicle. The Ranger EV is an all-purpose vehicle intended for off-road operation, whether on a ranch or on the range.…
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A Dramatic Change to the Way We Live and Work
“The way we work and live will change quite dramatically,” is how Stuart Sikes characterizes the impact of connected and smart home. Speaking at CONNECTIONS™ 16, Sikes points out that things such as voice control are removing the friction of interacting with technology and associated products. As further evidence of how things like voice control makes…
