This week’s Smart World Series features quirky solutions for the smart home, a new health service for your smartwatch, an event to debunk the myths surrounding smart city efforts, and robot journalists.

For those who missed this week’s Smart World Series, here’s a chance to catch up on the exciting developments in the connected world.  Each week, SiliconANGLE rounds up the top news trends regarding smart homes and cars, smart data centers and IT, smart infrastructure and all things related to the Internet of Things.

Smart homes get Quirky with Wink hub

Quirky, in partnership with General Electric, has already given us some interesting products such as the smart A/C Aros, one of the many gadgets that can be controlled using Quirky’s Wink app.  With smart home solutions now gaining so much buzz, Quirky will be spinning off Wink as a stand alone smart home company and kicked things off with the Wink Hub and redesigned app.

Find out more about these changes in this week’s Smart Living roundup.

Tap into your health with the flick of a wrist

HealthTap prides itself as the first company to launch an app specific to smartwatches running Android Wear, Google’s platform dedicated to wearable devices.  HealthTap offers  services to make medical information immediately available to people as well as connect with doctors, all while skipping the waiting room.

Find out how HealthTap will revolutionize wearable tech in this week’s Smart Health roundup.

Smart City expo to debunk myths regarding connected cities

The idea of an Internet-connected city can be worrisome, as it would only increase the number of cameras and sensors watching over its people. There’s other concerns beyond privacy, such as an infrastructure malfunction or a hacker attack.  These are just some of the concerns that will be addressed at next week’s NextGen Intelligent Cities Conference and Expo.

Find out more about the expo that aims to debunk myths surrounding smart cities in this week’s Smart City roundup.

Smart automation gives way to journalist robots

The Associated Press recently announced that it will be using software from Automated Insights to write earnings report articles so its journalist can focus on more important topics, such as earnings report analysis and other related topics.  The robot-generated articles will have the tone, variability and personality of those much written by humans, but the difference is, the software is able to produce more content than journalists alone.

Is this something journalists should be worried about?  Find out more in this week’s Smart IT roundup.

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

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