Category: Podcasts
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Over the past six months, there probably hasn’t been a company more roundly mocked in startup land than Juicero. The funmaking started after a Bloomberg article showed how one can squeeze the company’s juice packs by hand, essentially making superfluous the company’s $400 juicer. When you raise $120 million, this is a PR problem, one…
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When you drink a great wine or a tasty IPA, you’re often tasting the land from which that creation came from. But what happens when the means of production becomes distributed and food, once produced in a brewery or factory, is produced at the point of consumption?
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If you have a robot in your home today, chances are it vacuums your floor or mows your lawn. And while you may be thankful for the back pain the little guy spares you, I’m willing to bet you don’t consider this industrious single-tasker your friend. Tim Enwall, the CEO of Misty Robotics, thinks that…
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People give me a strange look when I tell them I cook with Facebook, but using a chatbot as a cooking interface is surprisingly natural.
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Back in 2014, Shaun Moore and his cofounder Nezare Chafni started selling a consumer video doorbell called Chui with facial recognition technology. They eventually realized the future of the company was not in doorbells, but in developing robust facial recognition and detection technology that could be applied to a variety of scenarios.
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In today’s podcast, I talk with Zume Pizza cofounder Julia Collins. If you’ve read an article about Zume Pizza, chances are it focused on the how the company is using robotics to make pizza more efficiently. But here’s the thing: while robot-assisted pizza production IS interesting, it is NOT what’s the most intriguing part about Zume…
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Every now and then a deal of such magnitude happens, it makes you almost speechless when you first hear about it. Amazon buying Whole Foods is one of those deals. On this quick-take podcast, Mike gets together with Nomiku CEO Lisa Fetterman to discuss this mind-blowing deal, what it could mean for Amazon, what a…
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Each week I look at the biggest story in smart home and give context to what’s happening in the connected home around the web. This was the most important week for HomeKit since Apple announced it in June 2014. That’s because, on Monday the company announced a host of critical updates to their smart home…
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On the 50th birthday on the microwave, the core technology behind the fast-cook workhorse faces an uncertain future. One of the technologies taking aim at the old-school microwave is RF solid state cooking. A company that figures to be a key player in the RF cooking space is Goji Solutions. With a portfolio of technology…
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Are you ready for WWDC? Apple’s big developer conference is just three days away, and so it’s time to make some predictions. I get together with my old friend Adam Justice from Connectsense to discuss what we can expect this coming Monday from Apple on the smart home front. Topics discussed include: We speculate whether Apple will…
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In this episode, Mike looks at Andy Rubin’s new smart home platform, Essential Home. Rubin believes he can eliminate all the friction and fragmentation consumers face today with all the various platforms by focusing on integration. He’s created a smart home platform that plans to play nice with other platforms and hopefully get us out…
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We’re back! Yes, it’s been way tooo long since we’ve done one of these, but Ashley and I catch up on the top smart kitchen and foodtech news of the last few weeks, including: Whirlpool’s acquisition of Yummly Amazon’s latest Echo device, the Echo Show Microsoft’s new Cortana powered wireless speaker PicoBrew’s record breaking campaign…
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