When the PC brought computing to the desktop three decades ago, it began a revolution that’s led to a quantum leap in the speed and productivity in the offices of businesses and institutions. Today, ...

To ground the discussion about web services and RESTful interfaces for smart objects, we investigate Pachube, one particular real-world instantiation of a RESTful interface for smart objects. Pachube ...

Lego packs an electronics platform with 3D magnetic tracking, multi-radio communication, and inductive charging into a brick.

Photoshop has tools and features that can make your work easier and more interesting. One feature of Photoshop is the Smart objects. You may be wondering what are Smart Objects in Photoshop. After ...

If a smart object is set up to be recognized by the app—which currently happens using small codes you attach to the object, but would eventually just require you to point your phone or tablet at the ...

South Korean tech powerhouse Samsung may be working on a Smart Tag object tracker if feelers from the European Union Patent Office (EUIPO) are to be countenanced. The craze for smart object trackers ...

Smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0 and the industrial internet of things (IIoT) are discussed constantly in the manufacturing world. As you might expect, some of it's hype, but a lot of it is more real ...