IKEA has lanched low-cost smart window blinds.
More and more smart home devices are entering the market.
It would be nice to have one control center for all the stuff, requiring to have one common protocol to talk to the different devices.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/07/ikea-kadrilj-fyrtur-smart-window-blinds/
Kohler has put Alexa in the bath room.
It looks really nice and you can enhance your bath room experience.
But be aware that you have enough budget reserved for all the gimmicks 😉
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/07/kohler-put-alexa-in-a-toilet-so-happy-new-year/
Is that better than having a robot?
Robot butler dreams may become more true soon. Maybe it will take still a few robot generations to become a real helpful alternative or better a supporting device for home work.
Providing support for health care is also an option, of course.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/08/my-robot-butler-dreams-are-getting-closer-to-reality/
Maybe you have noticed that I started with the imgur picture sharing service now, uploading new pictures to that site.
https://imgur.com/user/hardy2408/posts
The main reason is that the flickr service will no longer be for free if you have more than 2000 pictures.
And it is also quite different compared to instagram.
The last post is actually about an Isar walk in Munich.
Photography can still be enhanced. Not so much by the hardware we are using, but software algorithms enhancing photography images.
Just check out:
Source:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/22/the-future-of-photography-is-code/