![]() ![]() There are already connected refrigerators, thermostats, lights and household music systems. Individual devices like those produced by Nest are already on the market. Our clothes and our pieces of jewelry are going to be giving information about us and trying to be responsive to us, our homes are going to be a lot more connected." Consumer battleground "There are a variety of ways that the internet of things will show up in people's lives," said the report's author, Lee Rainie in a recent interview. "Computation capabilities have been growing, and accelerating research into human-computer interfaces and the development of human-like artificial intelligence are expected by many experts to advance communications capabilities over the next decade," says Pew Research. A report titled The Internet of Things will Thrive by 2025 says talking houses are just one way that we will be connected to the inanimate world. Walk into a room and say 'lights on.' Or you tell your oven to turn on at 3 o'clock and set for 350." "I see voice, two-way, live, as becoming very common in the next five years not only for people who have vision loss," says Gillespie. "We're almost at the level where you can have a regular conversation with a device," she says. But while she tries Apple's voice program Siri for occasional searches, Gillespie finds that keyboards are still more reliable for writing. ![]() She already uses Apple's VoiceOver to "read" emails and articles. Blind from just after birth, Gillespie is the CNIB's expert in Braille, but she keeps abreast of the latest ways for the visually impaired to make their way in a sighted world. It's an idea that Debbie Gillespie likes. "This is really a hobbyist market today," tech analyst Jan Dawson tells Tim Bradshaw at the Financial Times.ĭawson says Apple, with its experience selling well-designed mass-appeal gizmos, could be just the company to make the talking house popular. But in its next iteration, experts say, the talking house will not be just for the very rich. The richest man in the world, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, was famous for having a computerized house that responded to his every whim. Google's Nest deal highlights privacy policy issues: Dan Misener.Google has already signalled its interest, paying a cool $3 billion for Nest, a maker of centrally controlled home devices. But the way it looks now, it won't be IBM, but Apple or Google that will be in the race to create the talking, thinking house.Īccording to a report in the London Financial Times, Apple's next Worldwide Developer Conference, which starts June 2, be will be the moment the company that brought us consumer- friendly devices like the iPod, iPhone and iPad will unveil its plan for the iHome. The name has not been announced yet, but it seems a good guess. The talking computer's name, HAL, is constructed of the three letters that precede IBM in the alphabet. Jeremy Rifkin sees new economy arising from Internet of Things What's hidden in the Internet of Things, CBC Radio's The Current asks."This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it," says the talking computer in the movie 2001 to the only human he hasn't bumped off yet.Īnyone who has watched that 1968 science fiction flick might not be too pleased with the idea of accommodation that talks back, but next Monday could be the day the Jetson-style talking house moves from the unlikely to the inevitable. ![]()
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