Your wifi is watching you breathe
Robotic Furniture for small spaces and Bird gets a bike.
What’s New In Hardware:
- Amazon’s delivery drone is real: take a look. (TechCrunch)
- How do we feel about Ring doorbells being used to set up a surveillance blanket over residential neighborhoods? (CNET)
- The company behind Buddy, the social robot that never actually materialized, is giving it one more try. (IEEE Spectrum)
- Bird is upgrading from scooters to electric motorbikes that can seat two. (TechCrunch)
- Robotic furniture designed to maximize living space is coming to Hong Kong and Japan next year, courtesy of IKEA Today. (The Verge)
Offbeat Tidbits You Might’ve Missed:
- One of the first commercial uses for the Boston Dynamics SpotMini might just be to make them fight each other. (Quartz)
- Ordinary wifi can enable machines to see people through walls well enough to literally watch them breathe. (IEEE Spectrum)
- The most expensive toaster you’ve ever seen only makes one slice at a time. (Bloomberg)
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