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Bluetooth Smart Ready support coming to Android later in the year

Google announced that in the coming months Android will include native support for Bluetooth Smart Ready and Bluetooth Smart devices. Devices that come with a dual-mode Bluetooth chip will qualify as Bluetooth Smart Ready, allowing users to connect their phones to ultra power-efficient Bluetooth Smart accessories, like the FitBit Flex or the Pebble watch. Up until this point, handset makers had to develop their own Bluetooth stacks to make this possible, but now virtually all companies (not just the big players like Samsung, HTC and Motorola) making Android-based smartphones and Read more

Android Controlled Toilet Lets You Remotely “Log In”

Japan has brought many innovations to the world; Anime, Pokemon, robots that care for the elderly, and now, an Android controlled toilet. The Lixil Satis Toilet changes everything you’ve ever thought about defecating, making that trip to the restroom more relaxing than anything we westerners could ever dream of. The toilet responds via Bluetooth to a variety of commands, allowing prospective poopers users the ability to open the toilet seat, change the direction of the bidet nozzle and even change the water temperature. Talk about comfort! The Satis toilet comes Read more

Ian Kersey

EZIO unveils fancy Bluetooth watches, jewelry

A little known company (at least I haven’t heard about it before) EZIO unveiled few fancy Bluetooth-enabled products – EZIO Bluetooth 4.0 Smart Watch and EZIO Bluetooth 4.0 Smart Jewelry collection. However, unlike some other high-tech watches like Pebble, I’m Watch and MetaWatch – EZIO’s baby looks like a regular watch, rather than something only geeks would wear (and I’m a geek). In that sense, both their jewelry and watch products don’t have screens on them and will rather only inform you (vibrate and alert) about incoming calls and text Read more