‘Smart’ homes nowadays are incomplete without a voice assistant enabled speakers. These smart speakers have been becoming increasingly more popular as a household gadget. They bring a variety of both entertainment and practicality to its users. Tech giants like Amazon and Google have pushed for these type of products with their own Echo and Home products respectively. Latest updates constantly add more functions to such gadgets, like the ability to detect heart attacks being developed by certain researchers for emergencies.
A dedicated team from the University of Washington are working towards perfecting a machine learning algorithm that can detect heart [...]
Since the turn of the year, Xiaomi has launched quite a few products in India. Up until February, the most famous Xiaomi products were its smartphones and power banks to an extent. In 2017, we met with Manu Kumar Jain, MD of Xiaomi India who conceded that Xiaomi had plans to bring non-smartphone products to the Indian shore. It looks like that has already started.
After launching three smart televisions in a space of one month, the company has now launched the Mi Body Composition Scale in India at a price of Rs. 1999. The device is available to buy exclusively via Mi.com. Fortunately, there are no flash sales for this product. However, its smart TV products will continue to be [...]
Samsung Electronics showcased its range of new innovative technologies for smart homes today at the Samsung Forum 2016, Kuala Lumpur, in a bid to make a serious dent in the growing market space for smart home appliances in the country. Samsung showed off technologies that it believes will make a meaningful difference to the lives of consumers.
The company unveiled its range of smart appliances, spotlighting a dynamic line-up of new products such as the KS9500 series SUHD TV – available in 65-,77-, and 88-inch sizes –  that come with the thinnest bezels you’ve ever seen and a smart fridge that comes with a giant 21-inch touchscreen display. The smart fridge is [...]
