Quirky, a start-up that now fields 4,000 new product ideas a week, picks three winners and then takes over all aspects of production, from making blueprints to marketing the goods through b... Read more
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a digital house elf that handles the operation of all your various electronic devices? That’s what the Ninja Sphere aims to be, a one stop intelligent... Read more
Part of a larger smart-home environment A highly customisable robot companion designed by EU-funded researchers to offer support to older people is currently being presented across Europe an... Read more
Pressure-sensing floor adds new dimension to the smart home Unlike traditional solutions based on cameras, GravitySpace reconstructs scene data from a pressure-sensing floor. While the floor... Read more
The Raspberry Pi can revolutionize education The Raspberry Pi is a very basic looking micro-board that hides a sophisticated computer – the UK developers behind the computer expect ot... Read more
Patent proposal: monitor unauthorized persons outside, authorized inside A future smart home will need a way to sense who its residents are and what they’re doing. One way to do so may... Read more