I was really impressed by this company, Horizon was created by a couple of French guys who moved to Shanghai to create the company. They started by creating the set of educational toys that you’ll see in the movie below and are now working with the army on fuel cell technology for battlefield. Imagine a small cylinder that you open, you urinate into and you get 14h o several watts of energy.
This set of products is made by Jasco a licensee of the “GE” brand, and is currently in production, should be available around March in stores. This set of zigbee devices simply bring easy wireless home automation to your house! No more wires, just add those plugs between your devices and electric plugs and you’re set.
As you know I have some interest in the WiFi photoframe area and Ality’s drove my attention as it combines a sleek design with some cool Internet-based function. It should be available q2 for about 250USD. Can’t wait to get one!
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Veronica Bellmont form Mahalo Daily has done super-cool video on the Meccano booth this morning. There is a coll demo of the Spykee cell a bluetooth-enabled little bro for thw Spkyee
Had an awesome demo of the powercast technology that lest you transmit power to your devices wirelessly. What’s even more amazing is that the power receiver is as simple as a straight antenna, 2 transistors and a diode. The first demo product was shipped last year as christmas tree decorations that would light up when near the powersource. Now their thechnology has evolved and can transmit watts of power while complying to the FCC ruled (that’s what they say at least). Check the demo !
Amongst the thousand of stands I went through (“thousand” is not exagerating, neither is “went through”, I especially enjoyed the lifeware demos. Lifeware created a couple of virtual houses called under the name of Nextgen Home Experience filled with thousand of new generation home automation devices. Two thoughts :
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The whole story would retail around 20.000USD for a small house not including the TVs. But it really makes the home smarter. When you enter your house it recognizes you, it sets the ambiance to suit your preferences, it even can detect when you go to bed… Can’t wait to get a hold on this!
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I'm Alexander Casassovici, a serial entrepreneur with a strong focus on the mobile and connected devices industry and a passion for gadgets and virtual worlds.
