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Connected cars, connected homes and now connected toilets.

Withings' new Smart Body Analyzer is an Internet-connected scale that tracks your weight, body fat, heart rate, and even the temperature of your room.

an upgrade to my arduino project. kettle connects to wifi which you can then control from your phone

NTT Docomo from February 28th has released "Minna No Engei Hiroba TM" (Everyone's Gardening Plaza), a social network service for enjoying home gardening. "Everyone's Gardening Plaza" is a new SNS for gardening enthusiasts, who can record a daily cultivation log while raising plants, connect with peers, and share information.  By entering the type of plant or the cultivation starting date, explanations about essential thinning, fertilizing, and other such tasks are sent by mail at appropriate times.  In addition, you connect with other users raising the same plants and reference skillful gardeners' methods, and since you can give each other advice when you run into trouble, beginner gardeners can tend their greenery in a carefree spirit. Also, from April 1st (scheduled), a paid membership service will be implemented, for a monthly fee of 157 Yen (incl. tax), allowing users to receive cultivation advice from a horticultural specialist advisor.

Android@Home will connect a user's Android device to other appliances in the home via a suite of new services that will be released at an undisclosed future time. Examples of this include "Project Tungsten," a wireless speaker system that can be synced via Android, as well as wireless light switches and other appliances. Lighting Science was also named as a partner, and will launch wireless lighting products to support Android@Home.

"This is a story about devices: NPD figures that 10 percent of homes now have at least one Internet-enabled TV (though I bet that only a minority of them are actually plugged into the Web), and we're seeing a steady increase in the use of Web-video peripherals, like Blu-ray players, Apple TVs, Microsoft Xbox 360s. And it's also about content: NPD says the most popular service for Web on TV viewers is Netflix, with 40 percent of connected TV watchers using the service."