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A thousand of these tiny windmills might power your phone http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/01/14/a-thousand-of-these-tiny-windmills-might-power-your-phone/?tid=up_next ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthol

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Re: Google acquires NEST

I've been thinking of saving up for a Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone Black. I'd like to do a couple cameras and some other stuff, I get more stable every day and I'm constantly building and adding. I'd had to pawn the new uber boxen for a minute but got it back this morning. I'd actually appreciat

Re: Birthday Tablet and Weeping Angel

I bought my wife a kindle fire hd with the 8.5" screen Christmas of '12 and she loves it. I admit it's really slick and have considered getting one for me, or a surface. I bought her one of those this last Christmas and I really like that too. But you can't go wrong with a kindle. The new one h

Re: Birthday Tablet and Weeping Angel

With the kindle you have to side load a lot of apps. I got one of the cheap Asus 7" for my son at walmart and it's super easy to use, and uses the regular google play store. On 1/14/14, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > for what you are talking, actually the kindle fire is a decent option. > (price

Re: Birthday Tablet and Weeping Angel

for what you are talking, actually the kindle fire is a decent option. (price+features). (i dont have one, but have many friends who swear by them) On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Michael Dinowitz < mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > > Actually, let me turn this around and ask which tablet

Re: Birthday Tablet and Weeping Angel

Actually, let me turn this around and ask which tablets to avoid and/or which ones have 'special' features in their version of Android? On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Michael Dinowitz < mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > My birthday just passed and I've decided to get myself a gift - a tabl

Birthday Tablet and Weeping Angel

My birthday just passed and I've decided to get myself a gift - a tablet. I think that Android is the way to go over ipad and windows 8/surface. The only other things I've got on my radar features wise are Gorilla Glass (2 or 3) and possibly a USB 2 slot. Any advice as to which tablets are the bes

Re: Google acquires NEST

I'm playing with this: http://arduino.cc/ On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > FWIW the smarthome standard has been around for a while, see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_(industry_standard). > > A few years ago there was a CFX that allowed you to control a home X-10 >

Re: Google acquires NEST

I've got a Nest, a MyQ garage door opener, a handful of belkin WeMo products, a good network of dLink cemeras, and now an iPhone car starter. I can't get enough of this stuff, it is great being able to control everything from anywhere in the world. I worry a bit about privacy and security, but t

Re: Google acquires NEST

FWIW the smarthome standard has been around for a while, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_(industry_standard). A few years ago there was a CFX that allowed you to control a home X-10 controller via ColdFusion. It probably doesn't work now but there are a number of Java classes available that

Re: Google acquires NEST

You do bring up a good point about installing everything yourself. That's something I didn't consider. On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Maureen wrote: > > I have been giving a lot of thought to adding smart home design and > installation services to products my company offers. We used to do a

Re: Google acquires NEST

I have been giving a lot of thought to adding smart home design and installation services to products my company offers. We used to do a lot of analog to digital conversions and database conversations but both those markets are really weak so I've been looking for new areas for expansion. I love

Re: Google acquires NEST

Hal I love it. I've thought about this a lot. With RFID key fobs and tokens and multiple layers of wireless security and like a vpn it's feasible, but if its networked it's always vulnerable. On Jan 14, 2014 3:53 PM, "GMoney" wrote: > > The ramifications of the questions you ask are pretty far

Re: Google acquires NEST

The ramifications of the questions you ask are pretty far reaching...especially things like "when am i home" and "when am i going to sleep", and other such pattern like behavior that would be invaluable to a would be burglar. I'm not as concerned about the marketing potential for such things as "

Google acquires NEST

So Google bought NEST recently. This story (*http://tinyurl.com/nlb7ucc ) got me thinking about this. I have always thought that smart homes were both cool and creepy. Cool of course because of the geek factor, like the opening paragraph of the story shows, but creepy