Category: Podcasts
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This week’s guest is Home:On’s Richard Gunther. Richard and I discuss the Bloomberg story about Juicero that showed you can bypass the company’s $400 juicer and squeeze the Juicero packs with your hands. We also talk about the ongoing story of Ring’s acquihire of Zonoff, the acquisition of iDevices by Hubbell, IKEA’s smart lights, and Samsung investment…
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It was a big week for Lisa Fetterman, who not only was named top 30 under 30 by Inc. magazine, but her company also happened to drop the news of new hardware, a new meal delivery service and, to top it all off, an investment by Samsung Ventures. I caught up with Lisa the day before…
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When we think about the smart home, most of us think about what is doable today. But what will new homes and neighborhoods look like twenty five, fifty, hundred years from now as we face a world of dwindling resources?
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A traumatic early experience as a young medical intern set Dr. Matthew Lange on a career course to change the way the world thinks about nutrition. He realized early on that medical community had it backward: by focusing on treatment of people sick from years of poor eating habits rather than helping people to better…
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Three years ago, I walked into my home and saw an inch of standing water on the floor and water pouring out from the lights in the ceiling. While my house being flooded was a new experience, I knew the first thing I needed to do was call someone and have them come clean things up.…
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Here’s one thing you probably haven’t tried: crowdfunding a cow. But now you can with Seattle area startup Crowd Cow. The brainchild of former Urban Spoon cofounder Ethan Lowry, Crowd Cow lets backers buy their choice of meat by crowdfunding local farm raised cattle one cow at a time. In this episode, I talk to Ethan about how he…
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Mike showed up at the Housewares Show in Chicago this past week to discuss how the smart home will change the world of blenders, vacuum cleaners, cookware and home furnishings. Joining him was the Nathan Smith, CTO of Wink, Carley Knobloch, HGTV’s smart home expert, and Chris Young, CEO of ChefSteps.
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After spending the first part of his career as a retail executive, Evan Dash decided he wanted to be an entrepreneur and help bring innovative new products to the same store shelves he felt lacked new and interesting ideas. That’s exactly what he’s done with StoreBound, Dash’s product innovation company that discovered the PancakeBot and is…
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Is it time to get robot insurance? It just might be. One of my predictions for the smart home in 2017 was that robots would become an ever more important part of the smart home. While we aren’t quite upon the era of fully independent humanoid robots, there is no doubt we are beginning to…
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Is flavor a technology? Yes it is.
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When Mike realized Amazon was sending smart home consultants to the home, he figured he’d try it (and record it). Have a listen.
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Mike talks with Google’s hardware interface designer for the Google virtual reality team about virtual reality, food and the smart kitchen.
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