SmartWorld Weekly : From car seats to talking dogs
This week’s SmartWorld Series features a Ninja leading the smart home race, new gadgets to monitor yourself, an intelligent car seat, and a way for your dog to literally speak out loud.
If you missed this week’s SmartWorld Series, here’s your chance to catch up on the exciting developments happening in the connected world. Each week, we round up the best of apps and services for health and fitness, smart homes, smart cars and anything related to the Internet of Things.
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Smart Home solutions to boom in 2017 : Ninja + others lead the way
Parks Associates estimates that by 2017 more than 11 million US homes will have some sort of smart home controller in their homes. This is a huge increase from the two million homes currently equipped. And one device in particular is pushing the limits. Ninja Sphere is a smart home automation solution in the works that will allow users to write their own drivers to make more devices compatible with the device.
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New designs + apps for the Self-Quantified : Wellograph, Saga + more
More devices are coming out for the Quantified Self movement with a new smartwatch that measures a person’s wellness, and a device that makes workouts fun and more challenging. Check out the Wellograph, Goji Play, and the updated Saga app in this week’s roundup.
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Connected car seat protects + monitors kids
Ensuring your toddler is sitting properly in his car seat can be quite an impossible task, and you can’t monitor them while you’re driving. The iAlert smart car seat connects with your smartphone so you can get real-time information as to whether you kid managed to escape the car seat, or if you forgot to take your kid out of it. It also monitors the temperature in your car so you can make sure your kid is not too hot or too cold while travelling. More interesting innovations in this week’s SmartCar roundup.
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Wearable Tech for Fido brings a whole new meaning to “Speak”
Ever wonder what your dog is trying to say to you when he whines or barks incessantly? We may not have to wait more than 10 years to truly know what our dogs are thinking, as a little gadget called Woof No More is already in the works. Woof No More is a special dog collar laced with sensors that monitors the dog’s EEG and translates that information into human language. The translated phrases are simple responses suchs as “I’m hungry,” but the makers at the Nordic Society sees Woof No More as a first step towards two-way communication with our lovable canine companions.
Tune in next week for more interesting stories, discoveries and innovation in the world of smart and connected things.
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