Personal fitness. Family communications. Home management. And now that our devices are becoming interlinked as a vast always-on network, they don’t even need to be supervised anymore — our stuff can handle all of these irritating tasks just by talking with each another.
The buzzword for this idea is the “Internet of Things.” And if truth be told, the IoT (as it’s been hastily acronymed) sounds…pretty cool!
Appliance giant LG shared its vision of a “better and more beautiful future” in which its HomeChat platform might allow your LG smartwatch to understand that you’re sleeping restlessly, and instantly tell your LG audio system to play soothing music, your LG air conditioner to reduce the temperature, and your LG air purifier and humidifier to pump some scented mist into the room. Meanwhile, your LG coffeemaker is grinding some fresh beans for next morning’s automatically brewed cup of joe, and your LG smartphone is transmitting your daily schedule to your LG-enabled car system, so you can be guided directly to your first appointment when you wake up in the morning. (All of which will give you more time to watch “Game of Thrones” on your LG widescreen OLED Ultra HD television and play Candy Crush Soda on your LG tablet, naturally.)
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