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    Gululu is a cute high-tech water bottle that reminds your children to drink water

    A new water bottle named Gululu has hit Kickstarter. It's a water bottle with a display for showing an animated character whose job is to remind kids that they should be drinking more water. The water bottle can sync up with an Android app that can give parents insight on their kids'...
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    Amazon’s new Dash Button can be configured to perform pretty much any task

    Amazon has just released a new Dash Button for $20 that allows for you to perform any task you program it to. Amazon says that the process of programming the button is easy enough to figure out that novices will be able to do it, but the capabilities extend into more advanced recipes that will...
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    Samsung reveals a smart Surfboard

    Samsung Brazil is teasing a new surfboard Samsung is working on. It's actually called the Samsung Galaxy Surfboard. It has a heads-up display for showing weather and sea conditions, and incoming messages.
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    Intel announces 12,000 jobs cuts in an effort to focus on IoT, data center tech and more

    Intel has just announced a restructuring plan that has them cutting 12,000 jobs. It seems that most of the job cuts will be coming from the company's PC division and they plan to increase investment in data center, IoT, memory and connectivity tech.
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    Smart umbrella alerts you when it's going to rain

    A new smart umbrella has hit kickstarter. Its goal? To tell you when it's going to rain. It uses simple connectivity to communicate with a weather service, and the umbrella will have audible and visual notifications when rain is expected so you're reminded to grab it. The umbrella also seems to...
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    Samsung's smart contact lenses patent includes an embedded camera

    Who would have guessed it? Samsung is also working on smart contact lenses. A new patent for the technology has turned up. Samsung isn't the first known to be working on the tech, but they are thinking about some interesting things such as embedding a camera into the lens, as well as a tiny...
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    IoT WiFi could become 10,000 times more energy efficient thanks to University of Washington research

    A team of researchers from the University of Washington have come up with what they are calling Passive WiFi. They'll be presenting their findings at the upcoming USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation in March, but the result could produce a way for IoT devices to...
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    Samsung, Qualcomm, Intel and others create the Open Connectivity Foundation

    IoT in the home is about to get an even bigger push with the Open Connectivity Foundation. This alliance consists of ARRIS, CableLabs, Cisco, Electrolux, GE Digital, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Samsung(among others). The idea is similar to Google's Brillo, where these companies will come up...
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    AT&T Announces LTE Modules that can be Used in IoT Devices

    AT&T is currently at CES 2016 right now in Las Vegas and they have just announced LTE Modules that can be used in IoT devices.
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    An Introduction to Brillo, the OS for IoT

    Google's vision with Brillo is to bring the simplicity and speed of software development to hardware by joining together three things. First, an OS based on Android. Second, core services that enable a great getting started experience and allow you to operate at scale. Third, a developer kit...
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