![]() The other products announced Tuesday included a $35 smart water sensor called Overflow that detects water leaks and alerts users through their phone, the $100 Ascend garage-door controller, a $60 light switch called Tapt that lets owners dim the lights from their phones, and a $50 wall outlet called Outlink that can track energy usage. First Look: Quirky's new Spotter is Uniq (video).Quirky Tripper keeps tabs on your windows, doors, and drawers.Quirky's Outlink disguises smarts in a standard looking wall outlet.Quirky's Norm plans to make thermostats obsolete.While speaking, Kaufman was visited by a small gray robot butler onstage, and - to prove his point - shared an uncomfortable glance with it. The ads focus on joking that a robot butler - once perceived as a future technology - is actually awkward to have in the house. Also, Quirky was pushing out a series of advertisements to educate consumers on the value of smart-home technology. Looking to invite more adopters into the smart home, Kaufman said all the new products unveiled Tuesday were focused on affordability. Still, few customers have already jumped on these concepts. The smart home is just one part of the even broader Internet of Things, which considers connecting office spaces, cars, factories, street lights and thousands of other objects to the Internet. These companies - which include Google, Qualcomm and others - see the smart home as vast opportunity to add much more technology into people's lives and utilize the smartphone as a universal controller for devices throughout the house. All the devices presented Tuesday were developed through that Quirky network and were part of Quirky's nearly two-year-old partnership with GE to create a line of connected hardware under both companies' names.Ī bevy of technology companies have been working to develop the smart home, a broad concept of making appliances, lights and switches connected to the Internet, while also adding more sensors to doors, windows and rooms around the house. Quirky, founded in 2009, uses an online community of tinkerers, inventors and collaborators to come up with the ideas for its products and shares some of its sales with the community. The Norm box costs $80, but additional sensors are sold separately. Kaufman also claimed Quirky developed "the death of the thermostat," a white box called Norm that regulates humidity and temperature using a series of sensors throughout the home and can be controlled through a smartphone. A two-pack of Tripper sensors will cost $40. "Each of these represent the building blocks of an affordable and accessible" smart home, Quirky CEO and founder Ben Kaufman said Tuesday at his company's Manhattan headquarters.Īmong the new products was Tripper, a sensor that can be put on any window or door and know if it's opened or closed. Quirky and General Electric revealed seven new smart-home products, making their biggest push yet to try convincing consumers that the connected home is something they soon won't be able to live without. Quirky's Ben Kaufman presents the new Tripper window-and-door sensor.
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