Want more Android in your home? How about Android in your home. Google desires to bring to mind “every appliance in your house” as a possible accessory in your phone. The opportunities are seemingly endless, this type of thing we have seen within the Zigbee and Z-wave areas, but sadly this implementation doesn’t actually appear using any of these standards. The team teased ideas like lights turning off and on in accordance with calendar events, applications speaking to washing machines, games automatically adjusting for mood lighting, and basically little green dudes looking after each of the menial duties in your home.
One amazing demo was an idea, Android-powered device hub called Tungsten. Using RFID embedded into CD cases the device was capable of detect the CD and add it in your library. Another touch and it started automatically. Yeah, using CDs is slightly quaint, however the potential is there for wonderful things at some point. We aren’t sure exactly when these accessories might be launching, however the first are expected before the top of the year.
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