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LG is now rolling out the SMS-controlled smart appliances it previewed earlier this year. You can send commands "much like chatting with a friend" to the Smart Refrigerator, Washing Machine and Lightwave Oven using the LINE messaging app and LG's WiFi-based HomeChat system.

"Apple's reported plans for the smart home let Apple do what it does best, create a magical software experience while extracting a fee from developers. Who wins if Apple makes a smart home play?"

Rachiro Iro Smart Sprinkler System

""Smart appliances and Internet of Things devices for the smart home are seeing triple digit growth rates"

another smart watch

Easilydo doesn't necessarily replace an existing app, but it's kind of like a smart proactive to-do list for the iPhone. The app uses similar techniques to others - slurping in your email and Facebook and everything else and applying natural language processing and other logic - and suggests simple tasks it can complete for you.

put a smart ID tag on your pet -- the device recognizes the tag and provides appropriate serving of food associated to that tag and the door to the food only opens when the tag is scanned.

But in the last several months, AT&T has been reducing the number and length of calls to its call centers by relying on so-called smart videos from New York City-based SundaySky. The videos are personalized tutorials that are built on the fly using pre-scripted clips mixed with the subscriber's own data. The system works off a video template that incorporates visual elements, narration and integrated information from a user's account. Users end up seeing a video bill that addresses them, acknowledges their recent account activity and leads them through their biggest billing questions.

Smart garden for the smart community

Chumby devises an innovative solution to creating smart TVs.

Hmm, will towns, cities and small countries be the first to create "smart communities?"

Something I've been struggling with is that Smartwatches aren't really "smart" because they aren't advising you of anything. You still have to be smart to make sense of their data collection (which depending on the brand is either nuts and bolts or very flashy) - enter a kids "smartwatch" that doesn't try to be anything more than what it is.

"First, you have transactional data, which includes all the information you have about previous purchases and interactions with individual customers. Second, you have digital behavior data. This data, as the name implies, covers what people are doing and have done online, from surfing patterns to all the various digital interactions they may engage in across your web and mobile sites. This data can tell you, for example, which pages or sets of products on your site people have spent the most time exploring (or, alternately, ignoring). Third, you have social data, which includes all data related to the social graph as well as any social information that customers may have chosen to share with you (or, perhaps, unwittingly shared with you by agreeing to sign-in to your site using Facebook or Twitter)."

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.

Sony updated its smart watch Tuesday, introducing the Sony SmartWatch 2 at Shanghai's Mobile Asia Expo. Designed to be used as a second screen for your Android smartphone, the water-resistant smart watch has NFC (near-field communication) connectivity, and can be personalized with apps based on how you want to use it.

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