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Why did the toaster salute the CES-announced Internet-of-Things smart range hood? Because it was General Electric.
Smart, Internet-connected kitchen appliances make it easy to prepare Internet spam? We’ve already mentioned that the Internet Of Things was big at the Consumer Electronics Show this year, and have already covered Internet-connected vacuum cleaners with airborne dust sensors. Now, you might not have heard about the smart range hood. (It was, of course, right next to an Internet-connected smart refrigerator, the product labels and exhibit material still in Chinese (see photo gallery), so fresh off the boat is this smart refrigerator technology. Actually, there are several companies with an Internet-connected refrigerator. They are sometimes the butt of jokes. It is technology of the future. It was already the technology of the future at last year’s CES. And probably the year before. A little slow getting off the ground. In more recent news one of these Internet-connected smart refrigerators was recently implicated in spam sending attacks after being hacked. So if there’s spam in your Samsung smart refrigerator, it’s not clear if you mean email spam or Hormel Spam(TM).… Read the restAcculation, Inc. and AQcalc in the news!
AQcalc got mentioned in the “Green Living in DC blog!” (see their article: Explosive Wildfires awaken Fresh Air Consciousness) Note that the Air Quality Egg(TM) with dust sensor mentioned in the article (and supported by AQcalc) is already available for purchase from Wicked Devices. Like some recent CES announced products, It is an Internet of Things device (it reports crowdsourced pollution sensor readings to the Internet from all over the world to a public database) and has the advantage of also being somewhat usable outdoors (when shielded), but it’s currently still a kit. (On a coolness note, it is based on Nanode, a low-cost variant of the Arduino Open Source hardware prototyping platform. All of the Air Quality Egg hardware designs have been open sourced as well, so you can incorporate their schematics into your projects or products. Update: This means you could use AQEs as a platform to add wireless, crowdsourced seismic sensors as we suggest in this later blog post.)… Read the restDust sensors, the latest CES vacuum cleaners, and the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things comes to vacuum cleaners at CES The Internet of Things was big at CES this year so we went looking for appliance manufacturers that had incorporated a dust sensor (and Internet connection!) into their appliances. We’re apparently a little ahead bit of the pack on this, as most exhibitors in this space weren’t quite thinking along these lines yet. (There were “smart vent hoods” that might, or might not, incorporate a dust sensor. These allow restaurants to save energy, and we might do a future post on them [updated: link].) One company that was thinking along these lines was Moneual, that makes a robotic vacuum competitor to the iRobot Roomba that we review below. The exhibit heavily touted that the Moneual was “a hybrid” dry and mop robotic vacuum. This is a brilliant marketing move, and it makes sense that the same robot vacuum should be able to also mop.… Read the restWildfire zone? Tech recommendations.
We saw our indoor PM2.5 counts skyrocket earlier this evening [originally published: Jan 18, 2014]. Los Angeles is essentially in a wildfire zone, so that smokey smell in the air gave us a suspicion of what this might be. We were waiting for the EPA numbers to catch up. 11:38 PM Pacific it finally has. EPA’s AQI had been hovering around 100 AQI (which is borderline between Moderate and ‘Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups’). With the 11:30 PM update, the air finally broke through in the Orange “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups.” (Of course, keep in mind that the EPA numbers are time-averaged, a weighted average of a 4-hour and 24-hour average. So the air may have been bad for a while. And, we’re using the Central LA stations readings here; air quality will be different in different parts of LA.) As we mentioned in our earlier Colby fire post, the good news is you now, finally, have tools to take control of your indoor air quality.… Read the restRecent Posts
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