Tag: Smart Gadgets

  • Toshiba Brings A Smart Mirror For Your Kitchen And Washroom!

    Toshiba Brings A Smart Mirror For Your Kitchen And Washroom!

    The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has always been a pomping witness to some of the most amazing inventions and products. The recent CES-2014 held at Las Vegas is no exception when it comes to bringing out innovative ideas and concepts to the eyes of people.

    Well, what we are talking about is the new Smart Mirror by Toshiba which has been unveiled this year at CES. We are bound to say that the gadget is simply amazing. Although, very little information is available about the device and how it actually works, it do revives the memories of all those science fiction movies like Iron Man and Avengers. Just a swap over the screen and there you go! No doubt, we all wish to have such an amazing technology at our home.

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    The gadget is being called as ‘Multi Display in Black Mirror’ and the basic idea revolves around offering the benefits of a tablet in conjunction with a everyday mirror. Toshiba exhibited two different environments which can possibly make use of this gadget : kitchen and the washroom. While the bathroom setup provided details regarding weather details, fitness monitor and other related information, the kitchen arrangement surely was an eye candy for the show. It illustrated how the gadget would assist the users in making a recipe or making use of one already present in the database. It even provides flexibility for adjusting the recipe according to personal taste. The user could carry out interactions with the mirror using a camera in a much similar fashion to that of Kinect with an Xbox.

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    The Smart Mirror is no doubt an intriguing innovation but unfortunately, Toshiba has no serious plans of bringing the mirror in the market at this time. However, if this concept is realised, then soon we would have a mirror that would serve various basic needs in every living space like kitchens or living rooms.

    If everything works fine, then we’re not too away from the day we’ll have this house of future!

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  • Nest Protect : Smart Smoke Alarm By Nest!

    Nest Protect : Smart Smoke Alarm By Nest!

    Nest Labs, a home automation company headquartered in Palo Alto, California has recently come up with Nest Protect that aims to save homes from smoke and carbon monoxide but in a smart way.

    Yes, with almost everything getting ‘smart’ these days, the team at Nest also decided to design a gadget that would work in conjunction with the smartphones replacing the regular beeping alarm with a voice alarm that can pinpoint the origin of smoke and carbon-monoxide.

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    The gadget continuously provides the warning before going off. The circular light fixed in the middle of unit transits color to yellow if minimal smoke is produced like from stove or from the bag popcorn bag you just heated in microwave. However, in case of true emergency i.e. heavy smoke emissions, the light turns to red color and the alarm goes off!

    The team at Nest has taken into consideration many facts like the airflow, smoke chamber along with a number of sensors: heat, motion, carbon-monoxide, photoelectric and light. Specific details about the gadget are not yet official but as per the reports; batteries, alarm and voice chip have been housed inside the gadget only.

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    Nest Protect Safety has already won approval from California State Fire Marshals and Underwriters Laboratory. Plus, the British agencies too has signalled a green light for it. The latest update in this concept is the app ‘Nest Thermostat’ that controls Nest Protect and other gadgets.

    Apparently, another big news that has reached our ears is that Google has bought Nest for $3.2 billions. Experts believe that if the rumours are true then, undoubtedly this acquistion would turn out to be much more fruitful to Google which is making remarkable advancements in all fields. Well, we too don’t the truth but one thing we can certainly say is that Google never falls short of ideas; ideas which are worth executing. It won’t be surprising if we see some more designs being put forward by Google!

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