CES 2015 was an event not to be missed by tech enthusiasts. Even gardeners lent an ear as CES attendees promoted smart gardens! As diverse as the offerings were, they all pointed back to the same theme- the Internet of Things. Personally I believe the Internet of Things has been over-promised and under-delivered. In 2015 […]
Archive | January, 2015
Apple Fanatics Satisfy Ravenous App-etites
Apple, alongside thousands of mobile software developers have been met with a particularly ravenous crowd. Enthusiastic users of iPhones, iPads and iPod touches spent a whopping nearly $500 million USD on applications and in-app services in the first week of the year. Not a bad start to 2015 for mobile software developers! This is the highest […]
It’s 2015… What Happened to the Internet of Things?
The ‘Internet of Things’ has been enthused over for many, many years. Perhaps too many years. In fact it was in 1926 that Nicholas Tesla first said, “”When wireless* is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and […]
Technology Expands in Nature with Smart Gardens
Is your once tendered and loved vegetable garden now a pot of shriveled roots? Are your camellias now tangled in a web of weeds? A lot of people have a natural talent at killing plants. For people who used to rely on cultivation for food, we are now terrible at keeping plants alive. But now […]
Mobile Predictions for 2015
Technology developments are incredibly hard to predict. Technology changes so rapidly and every year it seems to have taken a new direction. I believe one of the best ways to predict technology developments is through looking at the past. ‘ In 2014 we saw several exciting developments in mobile. We saw the iOS8 able to […]
Star Wars Instagram Hints at Digital Delude
While Star Wars VII is still just under a year away from release, Star Wars social media accounts are running rife with speculation. Everything and anything is being analysed as a hint as to what the film holds in store. Take for example a video posted on the entertainment franchise’s Instagram page. An old commercial […]
Facial Recognition Technology: In Stores Now
Retail has been getting a major upgrade recently. First robotic shop assistants. And then virtual reality furnishing. And now facial recognition technology. This technology is arguably the most personal retail technology has been so far. Japanese technology giant NEC and California based company FaceFirst have broken into this market. They offer systems that use cameras […]