SmartWorld Weekly: From urban gardens to smart bras
This week’s SmartWorld Series features solutions for keeping an urban garden, new gadgets for the Quantified Self, Volvo leading the autonomous car race and news on wearable tech’s future.
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.
Urban agriculture meets the Internet of Things
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Keeping a quaint garden in the city seems impossible, let alone growing crops in one. But, with the innovations in technology, both are now feasible. Plant Link system and HarvestGeek allow people to check on the status of their plants in real time, so you never have to worry about killing your plant by not watering it enough. And if you want to grow crops in the city that are fit to be eaten, check out the GrowCube in this week’s SmartHome roundup.
New wearable trackers : Better to sleep + wake
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This week’s Quantified Self roundup features new gadgets that will help you track your daily activities as well as assess the quality of sleep you are having. And one of them can even wake you up from a deep sleep without waking up the whole neighborhood.
Volvo test drives automated cars in Sweden’s streets
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Volvo seems to be leading the autonomous car race, as it recently launched a project that would test out its self-driving cars in real roads alongside non-autonomous cars. Volvo is also involved in a project that would give cars better batteries. Also, find out what Ford is up to in this week’s SmartCar roundup.
Wearable Tech to soar in 2018
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If you think wearable tech is a big deal this year, just wait until 2018 when it is expected to really boom. And it’s got Microsoft and Broadcom to help push the limits. Microsoft is working on a smart bra that would help counter overeating in women, while Broadcom has a new Bluetooth smart chip what will enable even the smallest wearable tech to charge wirelessly.
Tune in next week for more interesting stories, discoveries and innovation in the world of smart and connected things.
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