Internet of Things
The agriculture sector in Africa plays an important role. It employs 65% of the continent’s labor force and accounts for 32% of gross domestic product (GDP)As its population rises over the years the farm productivity remains low, this is [...]
Imagine you’re in Times Square surrounded by flashing lights, street performers, live music, noisy traffic, potential pickpockets and countless other distractions. Now imagine you’re online surrounded by the same energetic chaos. [...]
I’m the girl you call if you’re looking to hit to road. Today I look at how I stay productive when I end up somewhere like, Joshua Tree.Sometimes being productive means taking the time to disconnect. You can’t be on all [...]
A hotel staffed by robots, a robotic girlfriend or dancing robot, with clock-like regularity stories of a new type of robot coming out of Japan. One thing is for sure, the hype is real and robots are integrating into Japanese society and [...]
CES 2018 was the war of digital assistants. Alexa made it clear in 2017 that she was going anywhere and in 2018 Google painted Las Vegas with its intentions to take her down. But what about Cortana?Larry Dignan over on ZDNet proclaimed that CES [...]
Every CES I give an interview and I say “We’re one year closer to the Internet of Things, becoming a Thing”. This year we saw clear signs that IoT was in fact well on its way to becoming mainstream.Samsung’s SmartThings [...]
With the help of the Vivatar go button you can trigger the most important safety features in the app without having to hold your smartphone in your hand. At the touch of a button, friends, family or the BOSCH Emergency Assistant, whose are [...]
Who doesn’t love karaoke?Whether you can carry a tune or are completely tone deaf, it’s almost therapeutic to belt out the latest pop hit or retro classic. And, karaoke establishments the world over have been an enabler, an escape [...]
At first glance putting GPS into a portable battery powered IoT device seems like a cool idea but it’s an idea so simple that’s easy to dismiss as a novelty. If you take the time look past is basic use cases of tracking my dog or [...]
Drones have become a regular sight in the sky and soon they’ll going to be taking over the waterways. I think of them as unmanned submarines and my imagination runs wild with images of 10,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But the idea of owning [...]