Smart Home

The Ambient Furniture project lead by MIT Media Lab's Tangible Media group Hiroshi Ishii, David Rose, and Shaun Salzberg consists of 6 prototype furniture concepts that mix "apps with the IKEA catalog" to explore ideas on peripheral awareness, incidental gestures, pre-attentive processing, and eavesdropping...

BERGLondon announced this week a duo of new projects coming out of their studio in what they say is the first of many:Little Printer:- A thermal printer that communicates wirelessly through a BERGCloud bridge that is connected to your router.- It gathers a list...

London's "Silicon Roundabout" seems to be on a roll these days with "the Good Night Lamp" to be the latest product to make an appearance from this group of talented companies. Initiated by Design Swarm Industries each lamp "family" is composed of a large...

“connecting up our things to the web, our environments to our things, and our things to us” DisplayCabinet is a prototype developed over the course of 24 hours by Ben Bashford, Dan Williams, and Tim Burrell-Saward for last...

Robb Godshaw an Engineer at Syyn Labs has created a haptic weather forecasting device called the Cryoscope that allows you to actually feel what tomorrow's weather forecast will be like today. ...

Twine is a a new way to connect your things to the internet. A project created by two MIT Media lab graduates (David Carr and John Kestner) and currently seeking funding on Kickstarter (Looking for $35,000 and ending on Jan...

The LabBox Grower is a fully contained hydroponic grow box, that utilizes an automated drip system and high powered LEDs to deliver what you need to grow your own plant, herbs, and medicine at home. Driven by a PicAxe 14M micro-controller and preprogrammed...

Ugle is a networked wooden owl designed by Oslo based design-studio Voy that acts as a "decorative personal message system".Controlled over the internet via your iPhone, Ugle lets you send color coded messages remotely to friends and family at your home. When you select...

Forbes recently featured an article highlighting the construction of NASA's new 'Sustainability Base' a new facility at the Ames Research Center that will feature over 5,000 sensors in the new 2-story building expected to be completed the first quarter of...

Natural Fuse is a project developed in 2009 by Haque Design + Research as part of the Architectural League of New York's Exhibition, "Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City" that harnesses the natural carbon-capturing processes of plants as they grow, and uses it in...

The recently released Nest thermostat has been given a good reception from the #IoT world and also apparently from real world paying customers. Erik Charlton the VP of Sales and Marketing at Nest announced that they...

Out of Tokyo comes the NetLED lighting system. Using Wi-Fi enabled tubes and power consumption technology that allows fine tuned lighting control (8 dimming levels) they report a possible reduction of power consumption by up to 90% from existing solutions....

NODE: the bluetooth enabled handheld device from George Yu and his team at Variable Technologies is another Internet of Things project that has been fully funded on Kickstarter (Others include Twine, AirQualityEgg, NinjaBlocks, ReaDIYmate). The products basic elements include a gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer...

I would like to introduce you to Brad. He is a toaster and a member of a new breed of networked "addicted products" created by Simone Rebaudengo and Haque design+research that explore some new ground rules for their use: ...

Stumbling across this Wi-Fi enabled pet feeder FeedandGo just made the prospect of owning a dog sometime in the future a little more appealing. The price of the device is $199 (as of 2/29/2012) and comes with a...

The OpenEnergy Monitor project started in 2009 by Trystan Lea is an open-source monitoring system for energy efficiency and distributed renewable generation. The team's goal is to develop end-to-end open-source energy system tools for monitoring, control and analysis...

Paraimpu is a social tool with the aim to allow people to connect, use, share and compose physical and virtual Things, services and devices to create personalized applications in the field of the Web of Things.

The Lockitron door lock system enables you to replace your keys with your phone. Create virtual keys for family and friends using their backend dashboard system and for a small monthly fee owners can also enable text-message access. Currently working for...

Rymble- The social internet object that brings your social network to the real world. Brought to you by Symplico who focus on designing products and experiences merging the real-world and the Internet. This is their first product...

tōd (pronounced “toad”) is a new Bluetooth 4.0 smart beacon currently seeking manufacturing funding on Kickstarter (2/3 of the way there with 20 days to go as 5/13/2012) from the folks at RowdyRobot. The device is driven by a single coin battery, has an...

LiftMaster, recently brought out a new generation of residential garage door openers that utilize a patented two-way communication system called MyQ that enables these advanced units to open and close the garage door as well as manage other household devices from anywhere in the...

The Samsung Smart Window, currently in prototype phase and demonstrated at this year's CES features Virtual Blinds, a full touch TFT (thin-film transistor) LCD display and is said to require only 10% of normal power consumption due to being partially powered by the sun....

The Spotify Box is the work of Jordi Parra as part of his final degree project at the Umeå Institute of Design. It was recently given a "Disrupting Concept" award at the 2012 interaction design awards and he is currently working out the...

Josh over at IoBridge stumbled across this 3 minute clip from the Big Bang Theory shown below. In the clip they reference x10's and connect their lights, stereo and remote control cars for open web access. ...

Foundry the research arm at Mint Digital has just released Molly, their follow up project to their smell producing robot Olly. Taking a little different of approach to bringing your social networking world into your physical world Molly...