I was starting to watch a documentary on Netflix called “Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things” when my heart began to sink. What is going on with the world? Are we just robots responding by instinct to shiny, colorful…
Opening gift after gift Christmas morning is an event. Accompanied by family and laughter, gift after gift is opened, and this year my wife, Sarah, got me an Echo Dot, a Phillips Hue starter kit (with two white Lux bulbs included),…
‘Twas the night before Christmas, in the automated home, Not a device was stirring, not even one; Google Home was set by the chimney with care, Waiting for “Hey Google” to hang in the air; The children were nestled all…
A path diverges in a wood. ― Robert Frost The future involves a monthly bill. Microsoft is Office 365, the cloud service with the monthly or yearly fee. Adobe has completely phased out their buy-once use-forever model, favoring a $50-a-month service. Same-same with…
The Internet of Things has many design considerations, and one very important tool that needs to be considered in all but the most disposable IoT devices is the idea of modularization. You might be of the age where you remember…
I had a great conversation with Jenae Ramos, UX designer and co-organizer of Orlando’s Downtown UX Meetup, talking about design and the Internet of Things. Jenae joked that designing for the screen involves many permutations of “fancy rectangles.” While that is completely…
What are the differences between ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, and the Internet of Things? These terms are full of subtleties, but my simplified is simply that the Internet of Things is ubiquitous or pervasive computing in a more limited scope. Ubiquitous and…
Confidence is a kind of high. You see the world a little brighter, your stride becomes a strut, and colors are saturated. It’s also a high in the sense it’s not the constant state of things. As a professional,we take…
In a recent panel we had at the Orlando IoT Meetup, we were discussing the future of the Internet of Things. Ashley Simmons, the Director of Innovation at the Florida Hospital, gave some insight to the future of healthcare when…
Is the Internet of Things a fad? If you want the “Too Long, Didn’t Read” version: No. It’s actually been here a while and the concept won’t be going away any time soon, although it will undoubtedly change form as technology…