Monday, December 3, 2012

Switched On: The fork, the ficus and the flandoodle

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

DNP Switched On The fork, the ficus and the flandoodle

As sensors and crowdsourcing give us ever more granular data into the norms and deviations of the world around us, enterprising developers and hardware companies have trotted out various combinations of atoms and bits to package that awareness, sometimes paired with recommendations, into products. Back in March, Switched On discussed a number of Kickstarter projects (all of which have now shipped) that extended sensor-based monitoring and notification to remote locations (provided there was WiFi or Bluetooth connectivity). Where does it end? Three recent product announcements enable us to know more about things that we might not ever have thought to track in the past.

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