The past week in the Smart World saw the launch of an all-seeing robot vacuum, several new health gadgets including the Apple Watch, and a Wi-Fi guard against glassholes.

For those who missed last week’s Smart World Series, here’s a chance to catch up on the exciting developments in the connected world.  Each week, SiliconANGLE rounds up the top news regarding smart homes and cars, smart data centers and IT, smart infrastructure and all things related to the Internet of Things (IoT).

Robots will take over our homes, furniture included

Harris Interactive Inc., the company behind Harris Poll, conducted an online survey on behalf of Lowe’s Companies Inc., which determined that 52 percent of the 2,000 survey participants see smart home innovations as somewhat important. However, the majority also stated that the costs associated with installing these connected devices play an important role when deciding on whether to upgrade their own dwellings.

Some of the connected home innovations consumers can look forward to include semi-automatic systems for vehicles, a robot vacuum that sees everything, smart lights and even smart couches.

Find out more about the survey and these interesting innovations in our Smart Living roundup.

People want gadgets to reflect personality, not health status

In the past couple of weeks we’ve seen a number of companies launch new wearable devices such as Garmin Inc.’s Vivosmart, Apple Inc.’s Watch, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s Gear S and Intel Corp.’s MICA, to name just a few. Some of them look great and have great potential to motivate healthier lifestyles, but most of these wearables have yet to take fashion trends into account. The problem with devices that are aesthetically unappealing is their lack of consumer draw, as the wearer could feel like a health monitoring device that doesn’t blend in with their fashion tastes could signal to others that they’re ill.

Find out more about what people want from wearable tech and connected health devices in our Smart Health roundup.

A weapon against Google Glass spying and safer city pipelines

If you own a business and are worried about the privacy of your patrons because of all these connected wearable device such as Google Glass or Epiphany Eyewear that can be used to intentionally or unintentionally capture impermissible data, here’s some good news: there’s a device to block those sly devices from connecting to your business’ Wi-Fi network.

Called the Cyborg Unplug, this device is able to detect these types of devices and uses the Aircrack-NG to impersonate the network to deauthorize and disconnect WiFi connectivity. Don’t let those tricky glassholes drive your patrons away.

Find out more about Cyborg Unplug in our Smart City roundup.

Tune in next week for more interesting stories, discoveries and innovations in the world of smart and connected things.

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