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Intégrateur domotique
Vous recherchez un intégrateur domotique en Ile-de-France? Conception Domotique est faite pour vous ! RDV sur http://www.conception-domotique.fr/ pour en savoir plus! Vous pouvez également aller suivre leur page Instagram: conception_domotique
A local team incubated within HP is making designer smartwatches.
In 2015 we tested more than 200 apps and websites. Here is one of the most exciting projects we’ve tested: http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/techflash/2016/03/a-look-at-the-smartwatches-made-by-the-vancouver.html
Activité Pop Fitness Tracker
If your new year resolutions include getting fit, ifyou have problem zipping up your pants after holiday, you are probably ready to invest in a fitness tracker. But wearing a sporty neon loop on your wrist is just another way of announcing an embarrassing weight gain… Fortunately, Withings, a French company specializing in fitness gadgets, cares for our sensitive souls (and sensitive wallets): minimalist design, multifunctional and fairly priced, the Activité Pop is the coolest fitness tracker so far. Here is a review on Techcrunch.com by Darrell Etherington titled The Withings Activité Pop Is Probably The Best Overall Activity Tracker Yet:
Withings has shored up the only major complaint I had with its Activité fitness and activity tracker/watch: The price. The French health accessory maker has revealed the Activité Pop, which is a version of its flagship Activité that costs only $149.95 rather than $450, and it goes on sale tomorrow, at Best Buy’s website in a limited initial batch, with wider availability starting in March 2015.
The Activité Pop offers PVD-coating on its case, which allow it to come in three different colors, including a grey, blue and beige tone. The PVD coating should help it stand up to scratches and dings, and it has a step-counting hand which reveals how far along you are to meeting your activity goal for the day, as tracked by steps taken.
The Pop has very similar styling to the Activité, but without the “Swiss Made” status symbol, and with a solo silicone color-matched strap, rather than both a leather and a rubber version. It’s also water resistant to only 30 m, rather than 50 for the original version.
The Pop is a great option for more budget-concious consumers, however, as it offers an identical feature set to the Activité in terms of tracking not only activity, but also sleep quality. It offers a silent, vibration-only alert when you reach your step goal for the day, or to wake you up when you reach your desired amount of rest if worn at night.
Withings has done exactly what it needed to with the Activité with this new low-cost version – the higher end edition is still a nicer watch overall for traditional wristwatch fans, who will also appreciate the Swiss craftmsanship it sports. The Pop offers few compromises, and should be plenty popular with those who don’t care so much about where their watch is made, and are more focused on getting a fun, good-looking watch that doubles as an activity tracker with a long-lived eight-month battery life.
At launch, it’s iOS-only, but Withings says Android compatibility is coming soon. Bluetooth connectivity not only helps it report back activity to the Withings companion app, but also means it’ll sync automatically when you switch time zones. This looks like a strong contender for a device to finally make activity trackers a little more mass market, and hopefully it’s something we get a closer look at during this year’s CES show.
P.S. here is another review on Mashable.com, Withings Activité Pop: Finally, a fitness tracker you'll proudly wear (All is in the title) http://mashable.com/2015/02/07/withings-activite-pop-review/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/04/the-withings-activite-pop-is-probably-the-best-overall-activity-tracker-yet/
Smart textiles: Connecting people
“Why force people to wearanother object if we can fit sensors into the clothes on their backs?” – says a 56 year old French telecommunications engineer Jean-Luc Errant, the famous founder of a Lyon-based start up Cityzen Sciences and that is about to change the fashion world once and for all time.
Recently he has created a technology that transforms a simple T-shirt into a miracle object that gets all the data needed from your body such as your heartbeat, speed, and temperature as well as location and acceleration. The micro-sensors are inside the textile - so one should not forget to charge it regularly. The collected information is then analyzed by special software developed by the company and sent directly to your computer (or mobile device). Pretty little detail: this textile can be washed just like any other one.
Previously to launching his own business in 2008 Errant was working for the health-care giant Bayer AG, France Telecom and a consulting company KADRIS Consultants. But his passion for extreme sports led him to invent the new technology that could save lives. “The key is having products that will analyze what it all means and warn you that you may be at risk of having a heart-attack or getting dehydrated”, - explains the inventor.
Cityzen Sciences has already signed a contact with Asics to produce a special t-shirt for jogging and are planning to design similar objects for other sports. First smart t-shirts that are called in a fancy way D-shirts (d-for Digital) are to be on sale this year.
Sources
http://www.businessoffashion.com/2015/01/fashion-tech-converge-smart-shirts.html
http://www.cityzensciences.fr/en
http://www.lefigaro.fr/secteur/high-tech/2014/12/19/01007-20141219ARTFIG00397-le-francais-cityzen-science-va-lever-100-millions-d-euros.php
http://prixtechnologiesnumeriques.org/wp-content/uploads/JL_Errant.pdf
http://lesclesdedemain.lemonde.fr/innovation/les-vetements-connectes-comme-tremplin-industriel-pour-la-france_a-54-3073.html
Twitter @JeanLucErrant
@CityzenSciences
Drop casual payments. Step aside wallets
Thanks to Apple Pay, which has been released this past September, mobile payment hasfinally gone mainstream. The digital contactless payment will definitely be THEconsumer trend of 2015 as far as it provides “a new category of service that willtransform mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay”1. We can now admit that the finance world is entering the digital age.
Customers will no longer use their payment cards, if they have not already done so, to make their purchases but they will begin phone-swiping purchases. Thanks to the velocity of the digital age, we are at the cusp of the on-the-go financial solutions. Customers will find through app store and websites, tools that help them manage their financial lives such as Mint.com or Betterment.com.
What about my data? Is it truly secured?
To run with those new players, brands will need to build a strong relationship with their consumers based on trust. To do so, they must deliver a seamless experience with a sturdy data security in partnership with trusted banks. That’s why they ought to redo their engines and remodel user experiences for real-time transactions.
This is what leads us to FAST LANE
As the digital age is going, generally speaking, supersonic, consumers are expecting from brands to design fast lane solutions in order to avoid on-site wait time. Starbucks®, one of the most digitalized companies, has well known understood the procedure. They launched, this past December, Mobile Order & Pay2 in Portland, Oregon and are going to expand it nationally this year.
“Mobile Order & Pay allows customers to place orders in advance of their visit and pick them up at their chosen Starbucks® store. The mobile ordering experience is seamlessly integrated into Starbucks world-class mobile app and My Starbucks Rewards® loyalty program” quoted the company on its corporate website. At this time, this mobile payment is only available on Iphone but they’re currently working on Android to make it works so stay tuned!
The app is based on GPS functionality, so upon first use, customers will be asked to accept location services permitting Starbucks to find the closest store offering this payment way. Without it, they won’t be able to pay in advance but they can have access to the menu. (You can find this entire process on their website2).
The American chain of fast-food Taco Bell is also enabling its customers using an app to place an order and obviously paying it while they are en route to a drive-thru, and have it waiting for your arrival.
If you haven’t understood it yet, mobile payment is the 2015 trend, so companies it’s up to you all but consumers are already into the game. Join it or stay aside☺
1 http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/09/09Apple-Announces-Apple-Pay.html
2 http://news.starbucks.com/news/starbucks-mobile-order-and-pay
BleepBleeps - a personal introduction from Tom
Estimote Stickers Beacon
About a year ago we began shipping our first product, Estimote Beacons. Since then, we’ve grown an incredible global network of over 25,000 developers building applications on top of Estimote. Startups and Fortune 500 companies alike use our platform to build apps that change how we interact with the world around us - from shopping malls, to the office, tomuseums, to concerts and beyond. Today we’re extremely excited to launch Estimote Stickers, brand new super tiny beacons that represent the future of what sensor technology and contextual computing will be.
via Estimote : http://blog.estimote.com/post/95382199590/nearables-are-here-introducing-estimote-stickers