Smartphones and a host of tiny, tiny computers are about to automate your home. So sayeth the futurists, and so sayeth the profit-seeking siliconed youth. And, most recently, so sayeth the founders of Ube, a startup that thinks that one day, we should all be running our dishwashers from our iPhones. Glen Bruthers, a co-founder, is one of a growing crowd of tech savants who believes that microprocessors will soon be in everything; your microwave, toaster oven, dishwasher. This, he told MIT Technology Review, will enable “the automation and remote control of everything from your lights to your laundry.”Sans microprocessors, however, he’s stuck dealing with stuff that can either connect to the internet, or plug into Ube’s specially designed, internet connectable wall outlet. Anything you plug in, you’ll be able to control from the corresponding app from you smart phone. Dim the lights! Turn on the TV, change channels! Anything is possible as we strive towards new frontiers of convenience.Evidently, the startup crowd is calling this “the internet of things,” which is exactly what it sounds like. It is the early stages of home automation, and Ube wants you to get in on the ground floor.Read the rest over at Motherboard.
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