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shared by Maria Gurova on 27 Jan 14 - No Cached

Its latest purchase is Nest Labs, a maker of sophisticated thermostats and smoke detectors: on January 13th Google said it would pay $3.2 billion in cash for the firm. Google’s biggest move into hardware so far is its $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility
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With Google’s collection of hardware businesses, the common factor is data: gathering and crunching them, to make physical devices more intelligent.
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Packed with sensors and software that can, say, detect that the house is empty and turn down the heating, Nest’s connected thermostats generate plenty of data, which the firm captures.
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This month Samsung announced a new smart-home computing platform that will let people control washing machines, televisions and other devices it makes from a single app. Microsoft, Apple and Amazon were also tipped to take a lead there, but Google was until now seen as something of a laggard.
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it is likely to do what it did with driverless cars: take a technology financed by military contracts and adapt it for the consumer market.
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shared by evgeny lavrov on 14 Oct 15 - No Cached

shared by Maria Gurova on 22 Jan 15 - No Cached

The City Council's Housing and Buildings Committee heard testimony Tuesday from residents, housing advocates, city officials and companies about the effects of the growing industry on the city.
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In November 2014, about 15,300 New York City listings were entire homes or apartments representing about 59% of the available listings on the site that month, according to Slee. There were also 9,704 listings for private rooms, and 753 listings for shared rooms. The analysis also showed that 2,764 users were renting out two or more units, which opponents have cited as evidence the service is helping illegal hotels. More than 200 users were renting out five units or more
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Airbnb is calling for "smart regulation," which it has had success with in cities including Portland, Oregon; San Jose and San Francisco, California; Amsterdam; and Paris. Airbnb collects lodging tax directly from hosts in those cities, and several local governments have passed laws that allow short-term rentals in some form.
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Both sides agreed on seemingly only one thing: That a discussion and regulation of short-term rentals in New York City is overdue.
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shared by Oleg Batluk on 02 Nov 15 - No Cached

Scientists have created a new device that allows people to see through walls
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it can "determine where you are, who you are, and even which hand you are moving
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feature that allows the device to contact emergency services if a family member falls on the floor
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operate your lights and TVs, or to adjust your heating by monitoring where you are in the house
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shared by Ilya Vorobiev on 29 Oct 15 - No Cached

- Ilya Vorobiev on 29 Oct 15
  
  PhD student that worked for Disney Imagineering and Microsoft Research made prototype of system that extends viewing experience of TV-set by surrounding it with augmented reality objects. It turns your room, physical environment into context of game or movie that you are viewing on TV.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">PhD student that worked for Disney Imagineering and Microsoft Research made prototype of system that extends viewing experience of TV-set by surrounding it with augmented reality objects. It turns your room, physical environment into context of game or movie that you are viewing on TV.</div>
  
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IllumiRoom a proof-of-concept system that augments the area surrounding a television with projected visualizations to enhance traditional viewing experiences
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directly extend the viewing experience, turning a 40 inch television into a 15 foot television
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can enable augmented reality experiences where virtual objects interact with the physical environment (e.g. furniture)
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can augment and distort the physical environment (e.g making a living room look like a cartoon)
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