• Google's Android moving into homes
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[img]http://www.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/image/20110511/android.jpg[/img] [i]Britt, engineering director, shows off a Smart LED light bulb, which can be controlled using Android devices during the Google IO Developers Conference in San Francisco.[/i] [quote]GOOGLE wants Android to move into people's homes with the open-source software powering everything from smart light bulbs to sound systems. More than 5,000 software savants at Google's annual developers conference in San Francisco on Tuesday were shown an 'Android@Home' software platform for making dumb devices smart and robots manageable. Among the innovations on display were light bulbs that can be controlled by Android-powered gadgets and a Tungsten sound system that could be synched to Google's freshly-launched Internet 'cloud' music storage service. Android light bulbs are to hit the market by the end of the year and developers were invited to turn them into smartphone-controlled alarm clocks for waking people up in the mornings. 'We are extending the Android platform into the home,' said Google senior vice-president of mobile Andy Rubin. 'It's a lot of fun,' he continued. 'The power of Android is that it can be used by a lot of people in a lot of different ways. We are going to see some pretty interesting stuff.' The technology has the potential to turn Android smartphones or tablets into remote controls for lights, appliances, irrigation systems, thermostats and more, according to Google. 'It is basically connecting lots of things together that inherently weren't designed that way,' Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney said of Android@Home. 'So many devices are becoming smart and connected, and Android is looking to become the technology to do that.'[/quote] [url]http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/TechandScience/Story/STIStory_667343.html[/url]
I for one welcome our Google overlords.
It better not get in my pants... Google Images new uploads.
looking forward to a future brand of Google Homes.
This is going to be interesting!
Flashing news. [b]Edit[/b] I would have expected zing votes, but anway :)
[QUOTE=Best4bond;29752738]It better not get in my pants... Google Images new uploads.[/QUOTE] Nothing to upload xD
Imagine if the government took control of Google and Facebook? :ohdear:
[img]http://dague.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/welcome-to-the-world-of-tomorrow.jpeg[/img] Need to install this everywhere in my house. Then I can troll my family from my bed!
[QUOTE=Oxu365;29753675]Nothing to upload [B]xD[/B][/QUOTE] no
Only €30 per bulb :D
[quote]Google's Android moving into homes[/quote]I always wanted a pet robot.
Sooner or later the [b]Google Earth![/b]
And then someone steals your phone and keeps turning on your TV to meatspin
I watched this live. I jizzed.
Am I the only one who think the engineer looks like a woman?
[QUOTE=Will Wright;29754930]Am I the only one who think the engineer looks like a woman?[/QUOTE] It isn't? :raise:
He's a guy. I heard him speak.
[QUOTE=nikomo;29755263]He's a guy. I heard him speak.[/QUOTE] :byodood:
Google are like Valve with their innovations.
What will the world be like in this coming age of people having their whole lives determined by multinational business conglomerates?
It'd be good to be able to turn the lights off with a phone.
[QUOTE=Will Wright;29754930]Am I the only one who think the engineer looks like a woman?[/QUOTE] Wait what? I thought it was a woman too.
I'm not usually a paranoid kind of guy but one corporation having this much insight and influence on our daily lives.. it's not good, at all. The current Google execs might not be maliciously inclined but they operate in an increasingly competitive business sector. Who knows what they might do with their power in 30, 40, 50 years?
Make a controllable light switch instead
DARPA and Google for Presidents of Earth
I'd rather it be linux than android. While android is an ok os, it's shit for anything other than a phone. Hell, even on a tablet it's useless.
[QUOTE=johan_sm;29757933]I'd rather it be linux than android. While android is an ok os, it's shit for anything other than a phone. Hell, even on a tablet it's useless.[/QUOTE] Now why would they do that, they would want to make it as simple as possible, and you come in here saying it should be linux instead :downs:
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;29758217]Now why would they do that, they would want to make it as simple as possible, and you come in here saying it should be linux instead :downs:[/QUOTE] Why does Linux kernel = Not simple, to you? Android is based on the Linux Kernel for a starter.
Can it change colors? If so then RAVE BREAK. [QUOTE=johan_sm;29757933]I'd rather it be linux than android. While android is an ok os, it's shit for anything other than a phone. Hell, even on a tablet it's useless.[/QUOTE] Yeah lets give the masses a complicated OS instead of a simple one. That will totally not affect sales.
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