Tag Archives: Wireless Technology
Trends: Consumer Technology Highlights Of CES 2020 (Video)
At CES 2020, companies built their brands, launched products and formed partnerships. Exhibitors large and small showed how CES transcends the traditional tech industry. CES showed that technology is changing our lives for the better.
Technology Review: AI Camera & Sensor Systems At CES 2020 (WSJ Video)
Two new smart systems use cameras, artificial intelligence and an assortment of sensors to keep watch over you—Patscan looks for threats in public spaces, while Eyeris monitors the driver and passengers in a car. WSJ’s Katherine Bindley visits CES to explores their advantages, as well as their privacy costs.
Technology: Preview Of Innovations On January 7 At CES 2020 (Video)
See some of the CES exhibitors who kicked off CES 2020 by showcasing their consumer technology innovations at CES Unveiled. This is just the start of what you’ll see at CES.
Technology: Ikea Is “Picking Winners, Setting Trends” In Smart Home Market (The Verge Video)
For seven years, Ikea has treated the smart home as a hobby. That’s changing now that Björn Block’s Home Smart division has been promoted to the same importance as Living Room, Bedroom, and all the other Ikea businesses that have come to define the company.
Ikea faces the challenge of teaming up with Google, Amazon, Apple, and other tech giants while also battling them for primacy in the home.
Read the full feature here: http://bit.ly/38VyVH9
Household Innovations: “SwitchBot” Curtain Robot Wirelessly Motorizes Your Drapes
From a Yanko Design online review:
Designed to universally retrofit onto most curtain rods, the SwitchBot comes with two hooks that hold it in place and a wheel that moves the bot left or right. Place the SwitchBot between the first and second loops of your curtain or blind, and the bot can now, on command, run up and down the curtain rod, maneuvering your curtains open or closed. SwitchBot runs on an app, but even supports voice commands via your phone or smart speaker, effectively allowing you to have your own “Let there be light” moment by commanding the curtains to open at will. IFTTT and shortcuts support even lets you sync SwitchBot with your alarm, or with the time of the day, thanks to the bot’s in-built light sensor.
To read more: https://www.yankodesign.com/2019/11/29/what-if-you-could-make-your-curtains-open-with-your-voice-or-better-with-your-alarm/
Technology Innovations: “WI-CHARGE” Charges Smart Devices Wirelessly With Infrared Light
From an Interesting Engineering online review:
Wi-Charge says it has a solution to the problem. Its technology allows users to power small devices, such as smartphones, smart fire alarms, and smart locks, from several feet away without any wires.
The technology works by sending out a thin beam of infrared light. A receiver on the enabled device then converts the beam into electricity.
Electronic waste is expected to exceed 50 million tonnes by 2020. That number simply isn’t sustainable.
One company is aiming to get rid of one of the main culprits in e-waste: the electronic cable. Wi-Charge has created a method for powering devices wirelessly using safe and efficient infrared technology.
Aside from having the potential to end a great deal of waste, the company is also aiming to meet a growing demand for power that will only increase with the advent of 5G.
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