Forget smart cities, smart regions are where it’s at. Nokia is putting its significant smart city-building experience to work helping to create a smart region from the ground up. TianFu New Area is a collection of cities, towns, villages, and districts planned to cover 609 square miles of territory in western China. Launched in December of… Read more »
The U.S. Census projects that between 2012 and 2050 the aging population will almost double. Baby boomers account for the majority of this growth and present a unique challenge to healthcare providers. Unlike their predecessors, Boomers want to “age in place” and expect to manage acute and chronic illness, accessing their healthcare providers virtually as… Read more »
There has been a lot written about the impact of next-generation transportation technologies over the past year. From concerns over driverless trucks during the election to debates over regulation and policies, this booming growth area of technology is becoming unstoppable. We recently sat down with Elliot Katz of DLA Piper, an attorney in the firm’s Connected and Self-Driving Car practice,… Read more »
At the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, we spoke with Sengled’s senior product marketing manager Daniel Cheng on their use of light sockets to power anything from a speaker system to a security system. (1/1) ReadWrite interviewed Sengled’s (@SengledUSA) Daniel Cheng on how the company is making #connectedhomes easier for consumers. #CES2017… Read more »
Sometimes we sit back at ReadWrite, take in the overwhelming opportunities and challenges of this thing we call the Internet of Things and realize sometimes we just want to have a little fun while we discover something awesome. Enter JerkyBot: We had a debate on this here at ReadWrite. There’s no way this is real.… Read more »
As we rip the page of August from the national calendar, with its steamy, fevered electoral memories, the cooler, more rational new month of September lays ahead, its days yet unmarked by ill-advised stump-speech digressions and conspiratorially theoretical misdirections. Another sixty-ish days and this election will be in America’s history books. But today, the outcome is… Read more »
This morning, after hearing about Tesla’s “big announcement” coming this afternoon, I speculated on Twitter that maybe the electric vehicle iconoclast was looking to buy ride-share firm Lyft. It would definitely be a “new product” for them. But I was wrong, mea culpa. Turns out it’s a new battery pack, a longer range, and a… Read more »
Ecobyte created a pollution monitoring system that took home the $5,000 cash grand prize and a set of Amazon Echos at the Industrial IoT Hackathon, held at this week’s SEMICON West in San Francisco. Their solution, a pollution awareness platform for tomorrow’s smart cities, leverages Intel’s Edison board connected to the Intel Grove Air Quality Sensor… Read more »
At the recent Mobile World Congress Shanghai, I got the chance to look at a new battery solution that could challenge lithium ion technology for the energy storage throne. Zap&Go’s fast-charging solution uses graphene-based supercapacitors, with the goal of replacing billions of lithium ion batteries that are currently powering everything from smartphones to laptops to… Read more »
This year’s usual Macy’s July 4th fireworks extravaganza has always been a great show for anyone lucky enough to be in New York City during the event. But courtesy of Makelight, you can also participate from home. On top of the pyrotechnics in the sky — usually the country’s largest July 4th gunpowder-and-bright-lights-blowout — this year,… Read more »
