One-week hardware summary: Nest acquisition of smart home platform Revolv

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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

Nest acquisition of Intelligent home Platform Revolv, want to make different home equipment interconnection collaboration, further complete the integration of smart home: to build a Nest as the core of the ecosystem, to open the API to developers; Horizontal integration more smart home equipment, 6 this year 555 million dollars a month to buy the cloud camera Dropcam, the integration of family information, build a platform to build a larger ecological system. The acquisition of Revolv can be regarded as a supplement to the nest ecosystem. Revolv is the most flexible intelligent home platform, has more than more than 10 years of history.

Mark Parker, Nike's CEO, recently hinted in an interview with Bloomberg TV that he hinted at Parker with Apple to develop wearable products. Google is also not idle, this week, Android Wear feature update, grabbed the Apple Watch before the listing updated sync offline songs and GPS function, convenient for mobile phone is not around, smart watch can work independently, and then, conveniently cast a focus on the future of the company AR Company Magic Leap, the amount of the final vote is determined to 542 million dollars.

Microsoft, the older generation's IT giant, will not be willing to fall behind. The reality, however, is that Microsoft's virtual reality program is still a few blocks away from Oculus VR, which recently joined a new recruit in their London incubator: the Fove helmet, which supports eye tracking.

(2) Domestic

Last week, millet "low-key" to the media introduced four new smart hardware, including small ant smart Camera, Millet intelligent sockets, yeelight intelligent lights and Millet Intelligent Remote Control center. At the same time, Millet also issued a smart home cross-platform solutions, emphasizing people-centered family life. Using the Super APP as a control center is likely to mean that millet is abandoning its router-centric strategy.

Although Broadlink is not a big company, but the future also has the opportunity to become smart home aspects of the heavyweight players. Intelligent socket, intelligent remote control, Broadlink also launched a new WiFi audio MS1, to the smart home to add a broadcast center. CEO Liu Zongji said in an interview that they also want to do more, the next step is artificial intelligence, is expected to enter the ordinary family in 3-5 years.

Intelligent cycling may be a new trend. Baidu has confirmed the development of intelligent bicycle OS, the first intelligent bicycle dubike with the system will also be launched at the end of the year. State Digital President Zhang announced his departure and started his third venture around the bicycle. It is said that Le Vision is also doing.

Smart Home

What are the new opportunities for existing home products, and look at some of these, perhaps you can have some inspiration.

(1) New products:

Intelligent security and space, look at the recent Homeboy surveillance cameras know. What can smart lights do differently? LEEO Intelligent Night Lights on the thought of monitoring the alarm sound, silently guarding your home. Intelligent switch and what can be improved, avi-on intelligent switch can be directly affixed to the wall, but also through the sliding switch to adjust the brightness of the lamp.

New Hardware

Innovation is the driving force of social development, and innovation plus utility is a sharp weapon for users to pay the bill.

(1) New products:

Roost next year will be launched with sensors of the Internet battery, the endurance of 5 years, so that users do not have to replace the smart products can also transform the old products in the home.

The main intelligent audio has been full street, want to let users buy, the product is cool enough, recently contacted the Crazybaby of the sound Mars, using a magnetic levitation plus subwoofer combination, looks like a crazy drag cool.

Compared to the first half, smart routers in the fourth quarter of this year began to become more and more "dispirited", the recent new light years router is more innovative.

On the Indiegogo, a newly-launched public-funded project Bluesmart, that is, to design and produce intelligent travel box, is actually a personal assistant.

Hardware startup can only do bracelet? Look at the smart wine Cork on the internet.

Wearable equipment

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

(1) New products:

Recently Pivotal Living launched a life Tracker's hand ring, the biggest feature is the price of 0 yuan. Users need to spend 12 dollars a year customized Pivotal Living mobile phone application services, you can get a free intelligent hand ring life Tracker.

(2) News:

Unicom virtual and realistic hand action capture Dexmo landing Kickstarter, support force feedback to become a bright spot, has been in Kickstarter fund-raising 30,000 dollars.

For the brain to do spa Muse Smart Headband recently logged in Indiegogo public, minutes to let you relax, buy, buy, buy! Similar products with Muse are Thync, Emotiv and Brainbot.

(3) Financing:

Focus on sports personal private teaching smart hardware Moov recently won the Banyan capital of a round of 3 million U.S. dollars investment.

Automotive Intelligence

Car-related intelligent news is really a lot of new products, news, financing one can not be less.

(1) New products:

In the face of Tesla's pure electric car craze, the car companies have started to counterattack, the Japanese preference for hybrid, German mainstream car companies tend to pure electric vehicles. Porsche will also push a pure electric sedan. And to help drivers stay away from collisions, Honda will push a new driver-assisted system.

(2) News:

According to AppleInsider, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently granted Apple's U.S. patent No 8,868,254--, the "geo-fenced ancillary control system", which, in layman's terms, became an advanced car remote control, which needed to be equipped with a CarPlay-like car service.

Technical support

Google's efforts to strengthen artificial intelligence are continuing, and the search giant has just hired 7 Oxford University academics to help develop its DeepMind AI system.

Silicon Valley researchers have found an iron-electric material that promises to break the bottleneck in computer development.

Next year, Roost will launch an internet battery with sensors to transform smart homes in a simpler way.

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