Loving @onefinestay’s Sherlock

The thing I like about Sherlock is that it isn’t a product you’d typically expect from an accommodation-listing & concierge service like One Fine Stay. Airbnb’s Wishlists feature is nice but it’s something I would expect from a service like theirs. One Fine Stay have ventured into the IoT world with Sherlock, and when I try to think of other services that have done the same, it’s mostly energy-related, like British Gas/AlertMe or Aviva Drive. It’s certainly exciting: electronic keys that allow you to control your doors from afar, making the problem of lost keys or opening the door for people you know when you’re upstairs that much easier.

.@GNLteam on Kickstarter – back it now!

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, Adrian McEwen and the team at Good Night Lamp have put the project on Kickstarter to get the funds that will help the little family of lamps come to life for people across the world. I’ve backed it, and can’t wait to give one to my parents. Go for it.

.@iotwatch on how we can expect the internet of things to evolve

Alex is a friend of mine and currently sourcing funders for her new start-up, the Good Night Lamp. She gave a talk recently that referenced Roo’s documentation of the fridge of the future (not).

Transforming products into services, by @mikekuniavsky

I just came upon this presentation by Adaptive Path and ThingM co-founder Mike Kuniavsky on the Internet of Things, which is becoming a catch-all phrase that encompasses more and more these days, as he rightly says. He talks about the connected web converting products into services, something I’m beginning to think a lot. I went into some of his older presentations, also worth looking at, and especially liked what he says about unboxing and why the phenomenon has lost lustre – because we grew up in a world where physicality of objects was important, but now ‘our objects have become less important than the services they represent’. Also, how one of the biggest challenges in the future is going to be deciding what NOT to do.

Lots of good stuff there.

Products are Services, how ubiquitous computing changes design

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