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Meet The Futuristic Traveller’s Companion

We have all been in that situation when travelling and watching movies, playing games or listening to music on our mobile devices and worried about the battery meter. We always wished we didn’t need batteries at all, so we can keep the kids busy or get rid of that long inevitable boredom of sleeping or gawking at the windows.

Well like everything nowadays, some people have given thought to this problem and found us an ingenious solution to this common problem. No, they haven’t got rid of batteries all together, at least not yet, but they have made something innovative.

Meet these futuristic cabin luggage.

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The G-Ro
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The Andiamo IQ

They sure do look like luggage from a sci-fi movie, but they don’t just have the looks. They are also packed with features- pun intended. Yes you guessed right, they are smart, like everything nowadays. They also help charge your devices on the go so you don’t have to worry about saving your battery on your journey!

The IQ even gets you connected with WiFi if you insert a SIM card and has its own inbuilt scale so you don’t have to worry you packed too much.

The G-Ro has a revolutionary wheel system that works on any surface and built in tablet stand.

At the computer potato, we give the minds behind these devices kudos and hope that more innovations like this to make life a little more exciting are birth more often.

 

Amazon Dash & Dash Button

We have all seen the scenes in movies where everything in our daily lives are automated by voice control robots or light emitting computers. We spoke about the Internet of Things a few weeks ago and even recently we have seen companies already setting up the platforms to make this a reality.

Commercial companies are already taking advantage of our love for the future of technology, the ease it promises, and are using this to attract us into buying more. The Amazon Dash and Dash Button are certainly going to ease even more shopping online.

You simply tell the Dash what you want to buy or scan the pack of the product you want, then go to your Amazon account, review the list you created, schedule delivery, place order and viola!

With the Dash button, it goes a step easier. According to Amazon’s website, you “use the Amazon app on your smartphone to easily connect to your home Wi-Fi network and select the product you want to reorder with Dash Button. Once connected, a single press automatically places your order. Amazon sends an order alert to your phone, so it’s easy to cancel if you change your mind. Unless you elect otherwise, Dash Button responds only to your first press until your order is delivered. ”

We at the computerpotato think the Amazon Dash and Dash button or technology like this will be the future of shopping and many more companies and ideas will spring from this dew!

 

Meet Belty, The Smartest Belt in Jan 2015!

We all know that moment when you eat too much and your belt feels too tight, or when you sit down and you suddenly feel the cold metal belt buckle press too tightly on your skin.

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Now you can avoid the uncomfortable moment, automatically. Yes automatically! We introduce you to Belty, the smart belt that will solve this issue for you and tell you a lot more about your waist line and day to day activities.

The official website boasts “Belty helps you enhance your overall wellness as well as your comfort throughout the day.” It achieves this by many sensors it has inside of it that monitors and tell you how many steps you have taken daily and your expanding or reducing waistline. As always, like all the smart devices, it correlates the information it gathers and displays it on your phone for your analysis.

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The Belty App

 

We at Computer Potato do no think smart belts are the direct future, however, one thing is for sure this innovation will set the trend for more smart wearable items that will give more information about our daily lives.

CES 2015: More On The Internet Of Things (IOT)

Still haven’t heard of the Internet Of Things? You really should know about it because it is looking more like it is the future now. The proof was at the Consumer Electronic Show CES 2015, where we see more and more companies like Apple, Google, Samsung and Blackberry reveal plans for the next generation of electronic globalisation!

The big tech companies are all vying to be the platform everyone uses to connect all their smart devices together.

See below a fraction of new technologies that you can expect in the coming years! Some will surprise you!

The Internet Is Set To Cast More Webs!!!

“The internet of Things” is everywhere. Well it is going to be everywhere, literally. It is becoming a topic everyone is talking about. Do you care about what it means? Well you should, because it is pushed to be what will take over our lives as we know it. The topic is very technical, and even so now that it is still in the development stage. However, like always, the Computer Potato is here to simplify even the most complex technological problems.

Look at it this way; there are so many devices around the world now.  Every smartphone, desktop, laptop and even watches (Click to Read about Smartwatches) can all connect to the internet via your mobile network or your home WiFi. So, what if we could connect every single electrical device to the internet? They would be able to actually talk to each other and share valuable information. I am not just talking about your TV, or watch. I am talking your electrical toothbrush, your air conditioning unit, your sewing machine, even your clothes!

How does that benefit anybody do I hear you ask? Well imagine your alarm clock wakes you up and sends information to your heater to start heating your bathing water or make you a nice lukewarm bath, just like you like it. After your bath, the bathtub sends information to your cooker that you have left the bathroom so that it gets the stoves ready for you will soon be making breakfast. After breakfast your house alarm sends information to your car to meet you in front of the house because you are about to leave the house for work. Should I go on? I am sure you get the gist of it already. Even though it sounds like a scene from Bill Gates house in a Marvel studios movie, but today the groundwork for this system is already building up.

If you think like me, I know you are asking “what about security?”. You might be thinking “I will now be getting SPAM in my car, or even my toaster is going to be hacked!” Well all these issues are being looked into and the whole concept of IoT (Internet of Things) won’t be put in place unless the technological giants pushing the idea have come together to iron out any problems

Even though it is an idea that sounds absurd to us today, I am certain the benefits of IoT will be far greater than the issues it brings. And it will help us interact with our environment even more than we can today. We might be putting on more pounds though- and I don’t mean money- as we would all be doing far less!