UPDATED 12:16 EDT / OCTOBER 04 2013

SmartWorld Weekly: New Smart Home Solutions, Cools Toys + More

If you missed this week’s SmartWorld Series, here’s your chance to catch up on the exciting developments happening in the connected world.  Each week, we round up the best of apps and services for health and fitness, smart homes, smart cars and anything related to the Internet of Things.

This week’s SmartWorld Series features new smart home solutions, ways to keep track of your mood, new smart vehicles, and cool connected toys.

Newest Smart Home Solutions for You + Pets

 

SmartHome Monday featured WigWag, a wireless device that help you control your automated home, Nest’s effort to expand and deliver a smart smoke detector that goes well with its smart temperature automation system, and the Pebble Doggie Dog Doorbell that helps you train your dog when he wants to go inside or outside the house.

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How Your Mood Affects the Self-Quantified Revolution

 

Quantified Self Tuesday featured services that helps you track your mood for the ultimate quantified you, starting with Moodscope, which allows you to track your daily mood by using mood cards.  There’s also the Ginger.io app, which helps connect patients and healthcare providers and allow them to reach out even when the patient doesn’t say it, while the Track Your Happiness app asks you questions of how you are feeling regularly to help you get a handle on your mood swings.

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Newest Electric Vehicles : Smart Cars to Personal Transporters

 

SmartCar Wednesday gave us a glimpse of what the future of transportation has in store.  Toyota unveiled the Smart Insect, as concept design for an electric car, at CEATEC 2013; Mazda fits its new vehicles with Mazda Connect, its next-generation automobile connectivity system; and Honda and Toyota showcased new forms of personal transportation vehicles, also at CEATEC 2013.

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Cool Connected Toys for All Ages

 

And on SmartDevice Thursday, we featured cool connected toys suitable for varying ages, such as the Sphere 2.0, which is a ball controlled by a smartphone app, the reaDIYmate which is a do-it-yourself animated paper companion that reacts to a person’s digital life, and the MYO armband that allows you to control gadgets by using electrical activities in a person’s muscles.

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Tune in next week for more interesting stories, discoveries, and innovation in the world of smart and connected things.


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