A week of new hardware industry development summary

Absrtact: Maker Voice is a column for the friends who pay attention to the new hardware, the initial form is an article every day, combing sum up the essence of the new hardware industry. Recently, we are also trying to make a revision, the work continues, welcome entrepreneurs, investment

Maker Voice is a column for friends who are interested in new hardware, the initial form is an article every day, combing summary of the new hardware industry in the essence of the day. Recently we are also trying to revision, the contributions continue to welcome entrepreneurs, investors, readers to contribute (syq@36kr.com).

In order to let everyone better understand the new hardware dynamics, we will be a week of new hardware industry development to make a summary, so that we have a clearer understanding. Let's take a look at some new developments last week.

Big company pattern

(1) Foreign

Last week, Microsoft launched the smart wrist band Microsoft Band, it is a new test, the real layout is Microsoft Tiyatien.

(2) Domestic

"QQ" platform, Tencent will provide partners with seven capabilities, including the Internet channel distribution capacity, the realization of hardware fast networking capabilities, messaging information capabilities, service expansion capabilities, large data computing capacity, security services, stability and a little access to the ability. This means that the hardware start-up company a little bit into the Tencent account system, you can share the "Tencent Department" all the resources. In addition to the open platform, Tencent also hopes to "QQ" to become China's largest hardware incubator, follow-up will continue to improve including fund-raising, prototype design, product development, sales, dissemination and other aspects of the ecological chain. Tencent open platform and mobile application platform deputy general manager Hou Xiaonan said that the next three years, "QQ objects" plan to promote 1000 traditional enterprises successfully realize the Internet transformation.

In addition, Millet will be with the Nanjing Silver City real Estate cooperation first intelligent home experience, the property developers have procured thousands of sets of millet smart home products, in Nanjing to launch the first set of intelligent property.

Smart Home

Again to the "self-reliance do not suck, thick de fog" of the season, air monitoring and purification must be the bright spot.

(1) New products:

Cheetahs move into smart hardware, pushing 998 yuan to the master of the air purification of leopard rice, the first spoiler has been admitted. The air purification market will shuffle. Haier released the second generation of air box, new scene detection and portable version, on the basis of PM2.5, VOC, second-generation products added to methane, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide and other harmful gas detection, but also built-in charging treasure.

Phantom intelligent Push Intelligent door magnetic, air purifier, the fancy is "scene", "Closed loop" and "slow Change", more and more intelligent home feeling.

New Hardware

Children's smart toys may be a good point.

(1) New products:

Nintendo into the smart hardware, the first product is not wearable sleep tracker, users do not need to wear, just put on the bedside to monitor the user's sleep quality. Nintendo is a company with us growing up, as a child when it focused on our waking, and now it has to care about our sleep, the industry conscience.

Small pot Friends of the world you do not understand, but augmented reality toys hybrid play understand. It is an interesting game kit that looks like a cute big clip that can be sandwiched in a recreational facility and includes gyroscopes, accelerometer sensors, infrared, Bluetooth, and Arduino control panels. When children shake, rotate, and slide the gaming facility, Hybrid play captures the trajectory, while moving the trajectory to the phone and interacting with the scene in the game. According to the source, Le Vision is recently preparing a solution to parents pain point of intelligent hardware products, into the children's toy market.

Recently Kickstarter on the emergence of an intelligent agent ClickStick, accurate, this is a body agent of the intelligent container, containing deodorant ClickStick can help you at the right time, the appropriate amount of deodorant, tu in the correct position.

You want the cocktail, b4rm4n to teach you to tune. After the smart Shaker is connected to the device via Bluetooth 4.0, you can select the cocktail type to be modulated using a companion app that contains up to 110 types of wine spectrum.

(2) News:

GoPro Q3 revenues and profits are exceeding market expectations, and YouTube content uploads and hits have nearly doubled. GoPro has long been not a simple hardware, its media attributes have been more and more highlighted, which is to add points to the brand big.

Wearable equipment

In wearable equipment, the Giants are still in the orderly progress, smart watch competition intensified.

(1) New products

Microsoft has launched a Microsoft Band wristband with Microsoft Tiyatien Health platform, which has 10 sensors to monitor heart rate, calorie consumption, sleep quality, and provide a guide to exercise. In addition to fitness, Microsoft Band can also receive incoming calls, emails, SMS and social networking updates, as well as access to Microsoft's personal assistant, Cortana. The wrist strap is priced at 199 dollars and is available for sale in parts of the United States microsoftstore.com.

Smart hardware boom, traditional hardware manufacturers Huawei, ZTE has launched the smart bracelet, I believe Lenovo is not willing to do this trend bar, this July launched the NBD Internet Entrepreneurship Platform, the release of smart glasses, intelligent air purifiers and intelligent routers. This month, the US FCC, Lenovo also showed a smart hand ring SmartBand sw-b100, today's bracelet also appeared in Lenovo's official website (there is no detailed product introduction).

HP is not far behind, the introduction of smart watch function is not flashy, no touch screen, microphone, no step function, there is no heart rate sensor, but perhaps its stylish appearance can also impress you.

And without a favorite smart watch? Build it yourself. Blocks can do it. This is a London wearable equipment start-up, and their idea is similar to Google's Project Ara, Blocks is a smart watch made up of different functional modules. Users can choose the appropriate module according to the function they need, so as to build their own smart watch. At the same time, can also be based on the use of different scenarios, replacement module

(2) News:

SVP Angela Arhendts, Apple's retail and online store business, recently delivered a video address to employees about the time frame of the Apple Watch listing: The spring of 2015, the middle of March next year to the end of June.

Virtual reality

(1) New products:

To read the "Heart" of the robot, MIT scientists have developed measurable virtual reality systems that can project the perception of the robot.

(2) News:

Let virtual reality more realistic, high fidelity build virtual world of Facebook. High Fidelity is unique in that it develops new interactive interface technologies that make people in the virtual world more like living in the real world.

3D Printing

3D printing is known as one of the eight major technologies that affect the future. With 3D printers, any imagination can be printed into reality. 3D Printing and digital manufacturing has a broad application prospects, around 3D printing related services are also in the ascendant.

(1) New products:

In the Enterprise 3D print market, Hewlett-Packard announced the so-called killer technology Multi Jet Fusion, to solve the 3D printer's two criticisms, one is the slow printing speed, looking like ice melting, the second precision low, poor quality.

Robot

Research is the driving force for the development of robots, while service robots may be a trend in the development of robots.

(1) New products:

Google has developed a blood robot to detect cancer signals, which uses a magnetic nano-particle that is about 1 per thousand the width of red blood cells. It has been rumored that Google has also studied the use of oral tablets to inject nanoparticles into the human body, but this approach may face huge regulatory hurdles.

Technical support

Andy Rubin, the father of Android, has left Google. He has been expected to build a robotic version of the Android system, in order to get ahead of the PC era Microsoft won the ticket, but after the acquisition of 9 robotics companies, suddenly left, to go again, to do a hardware incubator. It is not yet known whether the incubator has a Google background.

Wild Dog is a domestic intelligent hardware solution provider. Divided into three parts, respectively, for embedded and born cloud "Wilddog Cloud", can simplify the difficulty of embedded development system "Wilddog OS" and can be developed for rapid prototyping hardware "Wilddog hardware." In simple terms, these three parts are combined together as a complete solution, but they can be used separately.

Ultrasonic wireless charging start-up Ubeam 10 million dollar a round of financing, they want to make charging as simple as WiFi. However, given that there have been a number of promising start-up failures in wireless-charging technology, Ubeam will need to make a question mark on whether the final commercialization will be possible. After all, the company said two years ago that it would push its goods into the consumer market in 2 years.