This week’s SmartWorld Series features new solutions for the smart home, head gear to keep drivers alert, V2V communication for safer roads, and smart bag to keep you from overspending.

For those who missed this week’s SmartWorld Series, here’s a chance to catch up on the exciting developments happening in the connected world. Each week, SiliconANGLE rounds up the best of apps and services for health and fitness, smart homes, smart cars and anything related to the Internet of Things.

Smart Home experience : connected shower heads, light shows + more

If you’re looking for a fun way to spice up your morning showers, the Moxie Showerhead + Wireless Speaker from Kohler can get you energized in the morning with your favorite ‘wake me up’ tune.  Not only does it keep your shower routine interesting, you can detach the wireless speaker and take it with you anywhere you want to enjoy your favorite tunes.  For more interesting SmartHome solutions, check out this week’s roundup.

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Wearable tech to control gamer rage, sleepy drivers and night bikers

Playing games on your PC or console is not always fun, especially when you’re with someone who can’t take the heat and resorts to violence when they get frustrated.  To control gamer rage, Samuel Matson created a headgear piece called the Immersion, that is able to assess a person’s level of stress, which then changes the difficulty of the game.  The more stressed the gamer is, the harder the game gets; the more relaxed, the easier it becomes.  Immersion aims to teach gamers to control their emotions to avoid disastrous and costly tantrums.  Find out more interesting Wearable Tech in this week’s roundup.

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Smart car intercommunication key to preventing collisions

The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration stated that the key to making roads safer may lie in vehicle-to-vehicle communication.  This technology will involve the use of wireless connections in cars as well as GPS to allow cars to talk with one another to avoid hitting each other on the road.  Messages received from other cars can be used to automatically apply actions independent of the driver such as performing a full stop to avoid getting hit by an incoming car to your right.  Find out more about connected cars in this week’s SmartCar roundup.

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Smart gadgets detect dirty diapers, overspending + more

If you’re a shopaholic and you’re getting behind on credit card payments, then the iBag might help you stay on track.  The iBag is a product from Credit Card Finder equipped with an Arduino processor, a GPS chip, a real-time clock, and LED lights, to prevent you from spending.  To find out more about the iBag, check out this week’s SmartDevice roundup.

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

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