Episode 128: The coolest fridges at IFA and how to build a connected product
This week launched our new hotline feature with a comment and question from you guys. Keep them coming! Before we got to the Q&A, Kevin and I discussed news from IFA, Europe’s largest appliance show. ...
7 Sep 201754min
Episode 127: Alexa gets multi-room audio and teaching devices to lie to one another
GE is not giving up on its industrial IoT dreams, but it is scaling back a bit. We discuss what that means before diving into an array of assistant news. Kevin and I give some tips for using the Amazo...
31 Aug 201748min
Episode 126: Sonos wants to brick your speakers
The breaking story as we recorded this show was Sonos updating its Terms of Service to prepare for the Amazon Echo integration. As part of this update, the connected speaker maker confirmed that custo...
24 Aug 201751min
Episode 125: Lockstate’s big goof and a super sensor from CMU
How do you turn a deadbolt into a brick? Update its software! That’s not funny, especially if you’re Lockstate, which rendered 500 connected door locks useless with a software update last week. Kevin ...
17 Aug 201754min
Episode 124: How to think about cybersecurity in old-line industries
In this week’s show, we issue a major correction owing to my lack of pop culture information, discuss a fully automated T-shirt factory and wonder why we don’t have more exciting news from the world o...
10 Aug 201754min
Episode 123: Whatever happened to Wink and DefCon’s greatest hacks
Security was a big topic this week in the internet of things, so on the podcast we talk about news from Defcon, efforts to hack the Amazon Echo and our take on the Senate’s new IoT security bill. We a...
3 Aug 201748min
Episode 122: Roombas, an IIoT dictionary and IoT networks galore
Kevin Tofel and I crammed a fine mix of IoT news into the show this week, starting with news of an employer popping RFID tags into employees and ending with a dystopian book recommendation from Kevin....
27 Jul 201749min
Episode 121: Everything you need to know about Bluetooth Mesh
Bluetooth mesh is finally here y’all and we dig in deep to the technology in this episode. First off, Kevin and I discuss what this means for other mesh network technologies and some basic specs. Kevi...
20 Jul 201746min
