Can new streetlights brighten more than just dark streets? In the latest PYMNTS Intelligence of Things (IoT) Tracker, Roger Karner, president of Philips’ U.S. Market group, discusses the company’s new smart streetlight partnership with American Tower and how the company is pushing to get IoT-enabled...
Connected tech has become a staple of modern life. Everything from our cell phones to our homes and even simple appliances now come with embedded Intelligence of Things (IoT) technology. And, that IoT-enabled technology is increasingly being woven into the fabric — both literally and figuratively — of...
Driverless cars, it seems, are daily edging closer to being commercial reality instead of science fiction. The latest inch forward — GM has announced its acquisition of Strobe, a laser-imaging technology startup that is specifically concerned with pushing the development of autonomous vehicles. The three-year-old Pasadena-based...
“Smart House” used to be just a Disney Channel Original Movie; perhaps you watched it back in good old 1999, or remember having kids who watched it. After losing his mother to an ice skating accident, the 13-year-old hero wins his family a house that...
‘No pain, no gain’ is, of course, a motivating mantra for fitness. In turn, by gaining contactless payment tech, can fitness tracking devices eliminate certain checkout pains? In the latest PYMNTS Intelligence of Things Tracker™, Lindsay Cook, Fitbit’s head of devices, discusses the payment capabilities...
A smartwatch can act as a personal trainer that motivates the user to reach daily exercise goals. And, as smartwatches have enjoyed consumer popularity, it seems that there are opportunities for the devices to add new capabilities and play different roles. When Fitbit’s latest smart...
On Monday (Sept. 25), Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group introduced, Jacquard, a connected apparel platform that lets clothing designers and manufacturers mesh connectivity, interactivity and clothes. In a blog post, the company laid out a common scenario for city dwellers: When cycling to...
Apple won’t be building that self-driving car — or, at least, not the way it originally envisioned. It came to light last month that the tech giant was redirecting its vehicular efforts, code-named “Project Titan,” away from designing an actual smart car to focus on building...
When Tony Fadell, iPod creator and Internet of Things innovator as the founder of NEST, took the stage at the Innovation Project 2017, he told Visa’s Jim McCarthy why he has come to dislike the label the Internet of Things, despite the many IoT innovations he pioneered....