SmartWorld Weekly: Crowdfunding Projects Fuel a Futuristic World
This week’s SmartWorld Series features a smart shower that helps you save on utilities, new fitness trackers, and more crowdfunding projects for cars and you.
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.
Smart showers + other projects bridge the SmartHome gap
SmartHome Monday featured EcoFactor’s $10 million Series B funding round, which will be used to develop new services; Sprāv, a wireless water and energy meter for your shower; and Neurio, a home intelligence system that turns your ordinary appliances into smart ones without having to purchase a bunch of sensors.
Airo automates fitness trackers : Market needs easy data
Quantified Self Tuesday featured new fitness trackers that put others on the market to shame. Airo looks into a person’s nutrition, stress, sleep and exercise by using different wavelengths of light to look into a person’s bloodstream to detect metabolites, heart rate variability, the autonomic nervous system, heart rate and caloric burn.
New in SmartCars : Program messages to other drivers
SmartCar Wednesday featured crowdfunding projects that would revolutionize the cars of the future such as the RinkuHaus G-Link which lets you open your car garage door by just flashing your headlights; Fuse which lets you know more about your car’s needs as well as connect it with the rest of your life; and the Drivemotion Animator which allows you to communicate with other drivers on the road.
Smart glasses worthy of Levar Burton (or Superman)
And SmartDevice Thursday featured the ION Glasses which is a smartglass that makes you look like Clark Kent when you wear it, plus notifies you of your phone’s activities; the Gecko motion and gesture tracker, and the XOWi push-button communicator.
Tune in next week for more interesting stories, discoveries, and innovation in the world of smart and connected things.
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