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08 Mar How smart is your home?

Posted at 07:28h in Biometrics, eyeHand blog, Smartphone, Sports and Fitness 0 Comments
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Get ready for your smart home. Interest in home automation, security and monitoring, and lifestyle IoT technologies is growing rapidly. According to BI Intelligence research, “the number of smart home devices shipped will grow from 83 million in 2015 to 193 million in 2020. This includes all smart appliances (washers, dryers, refrigerators, etc.), smart home safety and security systems (sensors, monitors, cameras, and alarm systems), and smart home energy equipment, like smart thermostats and smart lighting. How do you manage and control your smart home and all of these devices? The smart approach to interacting with and controlling smart technology is to turn the human hand and fingers into a dynamic touchscreen display. Wearing a standalone smartphone eliminates the need to carry a phone or access a laptop because the person becomes the console and controller. When a human hand becomes the display, touch screen, gesture interface and command center for smart technology, life is simplified. Advanced biometrics enable people to effortlessly lock and unlock doors, or remotely access their home, vehicles and all of their networked appliances. People can live stream media content and video games with voice, gesture, touch screen and projection interfaces. In their Connected Home Forecast, research firm NPD Connected Intelligence claimed that by the end of 2019, 238 million installed devices are expected to be connected to the Internet and able to deliver apps to TVs, representing 59 percent growth from 2015 to 2019. The Internet of Things is set to change how we live, work and play. At eyeCam we focus on enabling OEMs to license, acquire and rapidly introduce groundbreaking new products to market and secure a faster ROI....

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19 Sep The Wearable Smartphone: The future of smartphones and wearable devices

Posted at 23:41h in Business, Carriers, Design, eyeHand blog 1 Comment
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If recent history is any indication for what the smartphone will look and be like in the near future, then we can expect radical changes and dramatically different ways that we will interface with this technology. Today wearables are mostly smartphone companion devices that connect with Bluetooth. That invisible cord will probably be cut soon. New products are constantly emerging that continue to revolutionize the smartwatch, smartphone, and wearable computing industry. In fact, in January 2016, Apple announced it is doing away with wired headphones jack altogether and going with Bluetooth earbuds. Soon enough you will have a smartphone on your wrist with independent cellular connectivity: the wearable smartphone. This will be your health and fitness monitor, media player, 3D mouse and controller, and biometric key and wallet. You will be able to make a call, effortlessly lock and unlock doors, avoid security lines and make payments instantly and securely all from your wrist. Wearable projection interfacing (mapping a display onto any surface) and heads-up displays (smartphone glasses that enable us to augment our reality and senses) allow your hands and fingers to be your touchscreen display eliminating the need to carry a pocket PC. Ben Arnold, Executive Director, Industry Analyst, Consumer Electronics, The NPD Group, said “Manufacturers continue to partner with designers to increase the appeal of the products, and there is a product for every type of consumer—from the most active athlete to the mom who just wants to remember when to pick up her kids from soccer practice—on the market.”[1] eyeCam is developing eyeHand a wearable smartphone with a projection interface that turns your hand and fingers into a touchscreen display, 3D mouse, and controller. If this is what the future looks like, what will it look like in 5 or 10 years? We can’t wait to see. [1] https://www.npd.com/wps/portal/npd/us/news/press-releases/2015/ownership-of-activity-trackers-smartwatches-expected-to-jump-at-least-4-percent-this-holiday-season-according-to-npd/  ...

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