‘HAI Dock’ -Turn Your Apple Device Into a Music Server!

Posted on January 30, 2021January 30, 2021 by IE Article Contributor

The HAI (Home Automation Inc.) Dock allows users to access music on an iPod through IP-enabled devices over a wired or wireless network. When connected to a Hi-Fi 2 by HAI distributed audio system, the connected iPod or iPhone becomes a source that can be played in any audio zone connected to the Hi-Fi 2. It is available in two versions, a hardwired Ethernet (HAI96A00-1) and a Wi-Fi (HAI96A00-2) version. The attached iPod/iPhone is controlled from IP-enabled devices including HAI OmniTo...

Turn your iPhone into a smart universal remote

Posted on January 30, 2021January 30, 2021 by IE Article Contributor

Your smartphone can be used as a universal remote control for your home devices. App on your smart phone communicates via Wi-Fi with the base station / hub / IR - InfraRed Transmitter, which then translates the command into IR for the devices. Many products are available that allow you to use your smartphone as a remote. You can build your own using 'arduino'. https://github.com/e-tinkers/esp32_ir_remote Some Sample products - Pronto is a small hub that's able to turn your iPhon...

Google’s project Jacquard will be weaving technology into fabric, transforming everyday objects, like clothes, into interactive surfaces.

Posted on March 14, 2017 by adminedit

Project Jacquard makes it possible to weave touch and gesture interactivity into any textile using standard, industrial looms. Everyday objects such as clothes and furniture can be transformed into interactive surfaces. This is possible thanks to new conductive yarns, created in collaboration with our industrial partners. Jacquard yarn structures combine thin, metallic alloys with natural and synthetic yarns like cotton, polyester, or silk, making the yarn strong enough to be woven on any ind...

Rover Land & Sea is a app-controlled amphibious kids toy vehicle (RC car) with camera and speaker

Posted on March 1, 2017March 1, 2017 by adminedit

The Rover Land & Sea is a powerful and flexible app-enabled RC car that works with iOS and Android devices. As shown in the images, the RC car sports a compact and streamlined appearance design, and it features uniquely designed wheels that not only allow it to run on a variety of terrains, but also propel the vehicle through the water with fins on the wheels. Moreover, the rubber ridges in the center of each wheel provide traction and protect the fins on land. Indoors or outdoo...

Researchers at Nottingham Trent University (UK) have developed smart balaclava with electric-conductive yarns that can help athletes stay warm and avert chest infections in cold weather

Posted on February 25, 2017 by adminedit

Researchers have developed a smart balaclava which warms oxygen before it’s inhaled to reduce the risk of athletes contracting chest infections in winter. Nottingham Trent University and German advanced knitting machine manufacturer Stoll GmBH created a prototype to help runners and skiers who can be exposed to increased risk of infections when exercising in the cold. The technology centres on a knitted patch of electric-conductive yarn over the nose and mouth which emits heat when cha...

‘LG Watch Sport’ is a new smart watch that makes smart phone optional as it has features like GPS, Music streaming, Phone, Google Assistant, Email, ePay, Texting…

Posted on February 25, 2017February 25, 2017 by adminedit

Left your phone behind? You can always stay in touch with the LG Watch Sport™ on your wrist. This standalone smartwatch stays connected to your smartphone, no matter where it is, even if it's off.* Send and receive calls and texts. Stream music from Google Play™ Music. Monitor your heart rate and track your progress. Download apps easily, and customize the display with your important info. The LG Watch Sport is available in Titanium Google and LG have teamed up to create a pair of smartwatche...

Snoo smart crib is an electronic bassinet that gently rocks from side to side and emits sound to help ease a baby to sleep.

Posted on February 18, 2017February 18, 2017 by adminedit

Snoo is an electronic bassinet that gently rocks from side to side and emits sound to help ease a baby to sleep. Smart Crib From Designer Yves Behar Automatically Rocks Your Crying Baby to Sleep. Rocking crib that imitates the rhythms of the womb by responding to a baby’s level of crying and fussiness and adjusting the intensity of motion and white noise accordingly. The SNOO also includes a sleep sack that swaddles the baby and keeps it on its back all night. In fact, the crib will not op...

Kymera Magic Wand is a universal remote control that can be taught to control a number of different electrical appliances.

Posted on February 15, 2017 by adminedit

Kymera Magic Wand is a universal remote control that can be taught to control a number of different electrical appliances. Kymera Magic Wand Remote, acts as a buttonless remote control for your TV, Hifi and DVD player. The Kymera Magic Wand Remote Control gives you the opportunity to perform magic in your own home! Imagine walking into the room with your children and their Muggle friends watching TV, whipping out a magic wand from under your jacket and changing the channel in a flash. http...

‘Nucleus’ is a internet-connected ‘anywhere Intercom’ that is also amazon’s alexa enabled

Posted on February 13, 2017 by adminedit

'Nucleus' is an internet-connected intercom that supports voice and video and the founder Jonathan Frankel's vision is to change the way we live and communicate in digital world and make it easier. Nucleus aims to reinvent the home intercom. It's also designed to be an all-in-one, voice-activated control panel for the connected home. At a glance, the Nucleus is a device that looks very much like a tablet. It measures 9 by 7 inches and it is 0.9 inches thick. It weighs about 2.1 pounds. But...

Nextgeneration near field audio speakers that Amplifies your device’s sound using magnetic induction and does not need any wires or Bluetooth

Posted on February 12, 2017 by adminedit

Near-field magnetic induction (NFMI) communication systems differ from other wireless communications in that most conventional wireless RF systems use an antenna to generate and transmit a propagated electromagnetic wave. The Boost speaker uses patent pending NearFA™ technology. Simply place a mobile device such as an iPhone™ on top of the Boost speaker and the sound from the internal speaker is magically amplified. Unlike Bluetooth® or WiFi the Boost requires no setup, no installation, and n...

Basslet a wearable subwoofer for your body so that you can literally feel the music

Posted on January 29, 2017 by adminedit

The Basslet is a wearable subwoofer for your body. Using a whole new technology for sound, it delivers the beats and basslines of your music directly to you – so you can literally feel the music. The result is a powerful sound experience that headphones alone cannot provide. https://youtu.be/gWJDUPsBhKI Werteloberfell have created the ‘basslet’, an innovative wearable accessory that provides an immersive music experience through the use of a haptic technology for sound. it recreates the ba...

Amazon’s ‘Echo’ Virtual Assistant Has Many New ‘Skills’ to Voice Control All Walks Of Your Daily Life

Posted on January 29, 2017January 29, 2017 by adminedit

Amazon's 'Echo' is a hands-free Virtual Assistant with speaker that you control with your voice. Echo connects to the Alexa Voice Service to play music, provide information, news, sports... Amazon Echo (known in-development as Doppler or Project D and shortened and referred to as Echo) is a smart speaker developed by Amazon.com. The device consists of a 9.25-inch (23.5 cm) tall cylinder speaker with a seven-piece microphone array. The device connects to the voice-controlled intelligent person...

‘Omate Rise’ Smart Watch With Amazon Alexa

Posted on January 23, 2017 by adminedit

Omate Rise is a very unique type of smartwatch that can play Android apps, you can install any of the hundred thousand Android apps from the Google Play Store but not all of them will work properly as they are firstly aimed to to work on Android smartphones and tablets. The Omate Rise is part of a new generation of smartwatches called Smartwatch 3.0 as it can be used as both a Bluetooth companion or as a standalone device via WiFi or 3G. https://youtu.be/Tbr5e43ZtA0 You can use your Ris...

MIT Media Lab and Berklee’s Institute have started Open Music Initiative (OMI) to dramatically simplify the way music creators and rights owners are identified and compensated using blockchain-inspired open and interoperable digital rights management platform.

Posted on January 14, 2017 by adminedit

Berklee’s Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship (BerkleeICE) announced today a groundbreaking initiative called the Open Music Initiative (OMI) to dramatically simplify the way music creators and rights owners are identified and compensated—a thorny issue that has challenged the music industry and stifled creator incomes and industry revenues since the dawn of the digital era. The effort will combine BerkleeICE’s expertise in the music industry with the MIT Media Lab’s expertise in decentraliz...

‘ZYLIA’ world’s first portable recording studio with recording sound-source separation technology

Posted on December 29, 2016 by adminedit

ZYILA is Poland based company which has developed world’s first spherical microphone which records and separates each instrument and vocals into a separate track. ZYLIA is an innovative and patented recording sound-source separation technology, a complete Portable Recording Studio for multi-track in one integrated solution. It isolates every instrument playing around it and records the results via dedicated software and cloud processing. Music band recording is a difficult task which requ...

‘JamKazam’ is an online Live music global virtual platform for musicians to come together and play, broadcast and share.

Posted on December 17, 2016 by adminedit

Using JamKazam, you can now play music with other musicians from your homes across the Internet as if you were sitting in the same room. You can record your performances at the track level, share your recordings, and even broadcast your live sessions to family, friends, and fans. Basically, JamKazam takes the music you play that is captured into your computer – either by a device you already use for recording or by your computer’s built-in mic and headphones – and then uses an ultra-low laten...

‘Bluesound’ smart wireless multi-room speakers for studio-quality streaming

Posted on October 31, 2016 by adminedit

Bluesound is the ultimate choice in hi-res multi-room streaming players. Made by audiophiles for audiophiles, Bluesound’s award-winning line of wireless speakers and digital music players is the first to fully support high-resolution audio. Listen to your favorite tracks, in every room of your home, as close to life-like performance as possible. The Bluesound ecosystem uses your home wireless network to stream music and communicate with other BluOS-enabled players on your network. The ecosyst...

Amazon’s Echo Dot

Posted on October 2, 2016 by adminedit

Amazon's Echo Dot is a 360 degree speaker that uses far-field voice recognition powered by the Amazon Alexa voice service/assistant. Design wise it looks like a hockey puck with two buttons on top and a rotating volume ring. If you've ever seen or own the original Echo, then it's basically the first inch and a half taken off the top of the Pringle can-like Bluetooth speaker. Echo Dot has everything the Echo has including long range, far-field voice capabilities, a microphone off button, an...

‘Iqbuds’ wireless Intelligent earbuds that let you hear what you want to hear

Posted on September 24, 2016 by adminedit

Welcome to the future of hearing with next-generation, intelligent earbuds by Nuheara. Totally wireless & let's you hear what you want. They are wireless earbuds that connect to your smartphone and play music or take calls, but they do a lot more than that. Its co-founders came from Sensear, an Australian company that builds industrial hearing protection that happens to have sophisticated noise suppression, speech enhancement and bluetooth communications. Sensear, a company that de...

‘Cyrano’ is a “scent speaker” that allows you to “play” whatever scent you’d like.

Posted on September 5, 2016 by adminedit

Cyrano is an air freshener that wants to give your videos smell-o-vision. The device holds three capsules at a time, each containing four scents, like lilac, guava, peppermint, vanilla, and more, You use its app, oNotes, to “play” the scents and can watch specially made videos. Cyrano is a "scent speaker" that allows you to "play" whatever scent you'd like. Developed by Vapor Communications. Cyrano is a small cylindrical device that is connected to an app named oNotes, where ...

Johns Hopkins University found – Infants learn more about surprising objects and they want to understand them

Posted on September 5, 2016 by adminedit

Infants have innate knowledge about the world, and when their expectations are defied, they learn best, researchers at Johns Hopkins University found. In a paper that will be published Friday in the journal Science, cognitive psychologists Aimee E. Stahl and Lisa Feigenson demonstrate for the first time that babies learn new things by leveraging the core information with which they are born. When something surprises a baby, like an object not behaving the way she expects it to, she not only f...

The MUZO Cobblestone is a Wi-Fi audio receiver that is able to play high fidelity, lossless music in your home through your powered speakers.

Posted on August 27, 2016 by adminedit

MUZO Cobblestone is a Wi-Fi Audio Receiver that makes your speakers wireless. Now you can control music play to your speakers without having to connect your audio cable to your speakers. Cobblestone is easy to set-up. Just connect your Cobblestone to your speaker, amplifier or receiver, and configure your Cobblestone to your home Wi-Fi network with our MUZO Player app and start streaming your favorite music. It’s as easy as that. AirPlay multi-room is supported for Cobblestones and not ye...

‘FINIS’ Duo Underwater MP3 player

Posted on August 19, 2016 by adminedit

FINIS Duo Underwater MP3 player - This device uses revolutionary, patented Bone Conduction audio to transmit high-fidelity audio through the cheekbones directly into the inner ear. With a sleek, two-piece design , this waterproof MP3 player uses integrated control buttons and goggle brackets to make swimming to music easier than ever before. Newly engineered with a stronger magnetic connection, the USB magnetic dock prevents complications with device recognition and charging. Ne...

‘Skreens’ lets you connect multiple HDMI devices to one screen and play them all togther

Posted on August 19, 2016 by adminedit

Skreens lets every device stream at once. Your gaming console. Your cable box. Your blu-ray, Roku, PC and anything else you're switching between — now all Watch multiple sporting events at one time; Switch games between large and small skreens; Mix in internet content like team stats, fantasy stats, or team bios. The Skreens app puts all of your HDMI signals on one display Skreens turns your TV into a media hub with multiple simultaneous feeds Skreens is a two or four-port hub ...

Soundbrenner Pulse Wearable Metronome

Posted on August 14, 2016 by adminedit

Metronome is any device that produces regular, metrical ticks (beats, clicks) — settable in beats per minute. These ticks represent a fixed, regular aural pulse; some metronomes also include synchronized visual motion (e.g. pendulum-swing). The metronome dates from the early 9th century, Abbas ibn Firnas (810-887 AD), was patented by Johann Maelzel in 1815 as a tool for musicians, under the title "Instrument/Machine for the Improvement of all Musical Performance, called Metronome".[1] The met...

Thermo is a no-contact thermometer

Posted on July 25, 2016 by adminedit

Thermo is a no-contact precise temperature possible, and automatic sync with the dedicated app also allows you to track temperature readings, get reminders, and input related symptoms/medications right on your smartphone. Clinical accuracy Thermo measures from the temporal artery, considered the best place to detect temperature changes, as the blood that circulates there comes from the core of the body. As Thermo sweeps across the forehead, 16 infrared sensors take over 4,000 measurements to f...

iPhone DJ Mixer

Posted on July 21, 2016 by adminedit

iPhone DJ Mixeris a small carry-around-anywhere gadget that lets you mix up and transform music from two sources. The mixer can be used with iPhones, iPods and mp3 players. Once you hook two of your sources, you can select the music you want and combine them to make them sound even better than before. Similarly, djay transforms your iPhone into a full–featured DJ system. Seamlessly integrated with both your music library and Spotify, djay gives you direct access to all your favorite songs and...

DNA Sequencing On SmartPhone

Posted on June 18, 2016 by adminedit

Oxford Nanopore Technologies has created a device that uses nanotechnology to put a complete lab on a single printed circuit board. It also can strip away single strands of DNA, which greatly reduces the preparation required for test samples. They have created the MinION device that connects to a laptop using a USB cable to produce immediate results. This amazing device fits in your hand, and is already commercially available. The big news, however, is that they have shrunk the technology even f...

IMAX movies may soon allow virtual reality experience in theaters

Posted on May 28, 2016 by adminedit

It looks like the world of virtual reality is already gearing up to branch out into areas other than gaming, with IMAX today announcing that it plans to offer VR experiences in theaters across the country. IMAX announced its plan to enter the next frontier of immersive experiences — virtual reality. In a nutshell, IMAX is developing a fully integrated premium out-of-home VR experience, which encompasses camera capture, content distribution and delivery, to provide audiences with immersive,...

Next Generation Of Earphones

Posted on May 15, 2016 by adminedit

enso Track: These wearable biometric earphones are an all-in-one gadget that senses, tracks and manages fitness, activity, health, music and more. Dash is a wireless smart earphone that combines 3 essential features in 1 product. Listen to music without any other device, or stream crystal clear audio from your phone. Use the Optical Touch on the Dash to control it. No buttons, just taps and swipes. Realtime Activity Feedback The Activity Tracker can g...