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 Originally Posted by treacl
While feeling that I've been stuck in a 'Time Machine', I wonder if any of you webOS followers remember when Palm began to talk of "every item in each household could one day have the chance to share / speak with each other" and "beyond reliance of fixed computers, at desks...".
It's called the "Internet of Things" colloquially, and there are tens of dozens of companies producing products that do just that. Twine, Fitbit, SmartThings, etc... They're all doing precisely this and in the areas they're a best fit for doing so.
Sure, your toaster can't yet speak to your washer warning it that your shirt's going to get butter on it from the toast it's toasting, but we're getting there and it isn't going to be any one manufacturer that does it; it's going to be a common API that allows that sort of interoperability across many companies' devices that allow it.
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