American engineers will send SMS slippers at $100 / double.
according to the Wall Street journal, engineers employed in major telecommunications or Internet companies have developed a variety of applications that can be facilitated by Internet connections, such as people who have developed intelligence, using their own ideas. Slippers, you can send messages or hints before the old lady will fall, and someone has developed a baby urine wet reminder device, as long as the baby's urine is wet, you can receive SMS notification and so on. These ideas make life more convenient and interesting, the article believes that these ideas are being accepted by the consumers in the United States and that it will be a potential market. The following is the full text:
Jari Arkko connects the toaster in the house with Facebook in real time.
Arko is an engineer in Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson, Sweden, living in Finland, living with his wife and three sons. He took his home as a laboratory, connected the whole house in a wireless way to the network, so that as long as the door opened, or the laundry was dry, or the bread in the oven was ready, his computer or cell phone would send out a reminder.
Arko said, "you see, these things are very simple. We can also find new ideas." He let me pay attention to his demonstration - he spent only 20 minutes to connect the state of the oven to Facebook in real time.
now, more and more engineers like him - a giant telecoms company or a small start-up - are good at inventing products that can send hints - from the diapers that prompt their parents to change their diapers to the old granny, who can stumble in the old man's gait. On the contrary, the slippers sent SMS will be able to tell the dairy farmers when the cows will be in love.
considering that almost every American has a mobile phone, companies are trying to jump out of the original mode of thinking - far beyond the original thinking - to make a great effort to recruit new needs for the network they run.
American telecom operators believe they can increase the "wireless penetration" from about 90% to 300% or 400%. In a simple way, it means that they have to have and use 3 to 4 wireless products for every American, young, young, young, young, and young - only through mobile phones that can't be achieved by the operators. "From our point of view, we don't think there's anything impossible," said
Glenn Lurie, the newly formed Equipment Department of the Att Corporation (AT.amp; T Inc.). The Department was set up last year to cooperate with start-ups to develop wireless products.
wireless diaper is the whimsy of a startup called 24eight. This diaper has a honeycomb chip, which can send "diapers wet" messages to mobile phones. The company says that the cost of each diaper is 2 cents higher than that of an ordinary diaper. David Schieffelin, executive director of 24eight, said they are still looking for partners who can help them commercialize the product. David,
although babies are born with a way of communicating with their parents, the effects of these diapers are to allow parents to know the wetness of their diapers at any time and anywhere, even if they can't hear the baby's crying. He said, "parents can also monitor the children's situation in the nursing center remotely and receive" diapers wet "messages.
Jie Fei Lin can cooperate with the wireless operators and his other invention -- wool slippers.
Att Corporation is conducting clinical trials on the "SmartSlippers" ("intelligent slippers") produced by 24eight for the elderly. Verizon Wireless recently invested in the company. Schiff Lin hopes that this slipper can be launched directly to customers this fall.
the price of the slippers is about 100 dollars. In addition, the price of the package is 25 USD / month.
if the person in a slipper stands unstable, the "overload sensor" of the sole - similar to the small part in the iPhone that is inclined and upside down - can induce problems. After that, slippers will send messages to a family member or doctor of the elderly through the telecommunications network.
Xi Feilin said, "think about how much information we can get from the foot (in the sensor), what's not possible to put a harmless data device in a slipper?"
a $10 drug bottle is already on sale in the market. If the patient forget to take the medicine on time, the medicine bottle will be reminded by means of lighting, pronunciation, telephone and text messages. The product is called "GlowCap" and is from Vitality, a start-up company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The medicine bottle can also click, record the medication and send the information to the doctor or the patient's family.
43 year old Tim Tim (Tim Rowe) is the director of Cambridge Innovation Center. The Vitality rental workshop is owned by the Cambridge innovation center. In 2009, Luo began to use GlowCap to remind himself to take cholesterol lowering drugs on time.
once, he staggered into the bathroom in the middle of the night and saw the lights on the GlowCap bottle flashing. He clumsily opened the bottle cap and accidentally pressed the wrong button. That's the button for sending the signal, which requires that the medicine bottle be filled again.
his wife was sleeping in bed, when the telephone rang. The phone is GlowCap's customer service center. The other party called and asked if he needed help. He put the medicine into the medicine bottle.
he said, "my wife was unhappy at the time."
this medicine bottle has attracted the attention of the comic actor Stephen Stephen (Stephen Colbert). He showed a video of products introduced by Vitality company on his TV show. In the video, a girl tells how this product helps him remember the medication in time by calling grandpa's cell phone.
Colbert said, "it's very talented, because the old people have a bad memory, but they do very well on the Internet, the phone ringtones, and the voice mail."
Vitality's president Joshua Watson (Joshua Wachman) said, "the irony is that after being mocked by Stephen Colbert, people are starting to really buy our products... Therefore, we regard his sarcasm as a compliment to us.
at present, people usually have various wired interfaces and various wireless technologies, such as effective cordless telephones in short distance. However, wireless operators are interested in developing long distance communication technologies using cellular networks.
in 2007, when the Amazon Co (Amazon.com) launched Kindle and cellular connections for users to download books from the Internet, various new devices began to speed up using wireless technology - but the key innovation was how wireless technology did not generate additional telephone charges. The cost of Amazon's service has been included in the purchase price of the equipment. At present, some cars can be started with mobile phones.
operators think that the market potential of this kind of equipment is huge. By the end of ten, the number of terminals connected to the wireless network will reach 60 billion from 4 billion by the end of ten, according to Verizon Communications Inc. CEO Ivan Seidenberg. Ericsson CEO Wei Hansi (Hans Vestberg) predicted 50 billion in April.
this wireless application extends to all kinds of animals. Cellcom, a wireless operator for services in Wisconsin and the northern Michigan Peninsula, is producing a device that tells milk farm cows when to be flutting. Dairy farmers can track cows' orientation and body temperature through antennas on their ears.
the project director Bob Webb (Bob Webb) said, "in the past, people tend to have only one cow, so you can remember the name of the cow and watch it around the cow. Now, dairy farmers manage farms with more than 2000 cows. Dairy farmers need to know a lot of information, just like they used to be familiar with a cow.
Roger Meads (Roger Meads) is a veterinarian in Wisconsin, a dairy farm with more than 17000 cows. Meads strongly urged wireless operators to develop such devices. He said cows who could not conceive had to "leave the cattle" (euphemisms sent to slaughterhouses). Of the cows he cares, about 1/3 of the cows are "leaving the cattle" each year. He hopes to reduce the proportion by increasing the number of cows conceived.
he said, "cows are more active when they are estrus, and if they can record their behavior at the time, we can significantly increase the rate of pregnancy."