"Trojan horse"There's another reason, Ruckert says, why more than half of the world's smart appliance manufacturers have signed up. "Our customers are quite afraid of the likes of Amazon," Ruckert said. Text messaging, though, may yet break down those walls. At Unified Inbox, Ruckert looks ahead to being able to communicate not only with one's own appliances, but with machines elsewhere. And smart appliance entrepreneur James Dyson said in a recent interview that the future lies in what he calls "highly intelligent automation".

Source: bd News24 March 13, 2017 07:00 UTC