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“Our cars—like our dishwashers—have secretly been robots for a long time. We’ve had sensor-driven automatic braking systems for decades. The difference between then and now is the amount and visibility of the autonomy our robots have. It’s one thing to have a machine invisibly helping to slow your car, quite another to have it parallel parking for you.”
— Dan Saffer - Smart Design on What We’ll Really Want From Robot Cars
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“DoorBot: the battery operated Wi-Fi video doorbell that connects to smartphones and tablets. See who is at your door — anytime/anywhere.”
Compatible with Lockitron.
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The new WeMo system from Belkin is a set of simple products that allow you to control or automate your home via the internet with a smartphone.
belkin.com/wemo Now with IFTTT integration
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“Our technology combines a large database of structured data, a real-time feed of stats, and a large database of phrases, and algorithms to tie it all together to produce articles from two to eight paragraphs in length. The algorithms look for interesting patterns in the data to determine what to write about.”
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“The cautionary layer is about the weirdness that comes from software that tries to solve problems. In this instance what happens when spellcheck meets people who don’t speak English as their first language? You get something that seems right but isn’t, you get SUBTLE FAIL, which is more intriguing and dangerous than EPIC FAIL”
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This demo of the Siri proxy by Plamoni shows how he can control a network connected thermostat using his voice.
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This is an Excel function. It also would work in Microsoft Access. The factory is using Excel or Access to store all the logos for the different jeans they make and then print them onto leather. This is what happens when there is a bug in their software.”
