{"id":741208,"date":"2013-03-10T13:49:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T17:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=618656"},"modified":"2013-03-10T13:49:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T17:49:08","slug":"hack-your-gumball-machine-jar-and-connect-anything-to-the-web-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/741208","title":{"rendered":"Hack your gumball machine jar and connect anything to the web (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

To connect devices to the internet, developers shouldn’t have to keep reinventing wheel. That’s the message from Hugo Fiennes, the CEO and co-founder of Electric Imp. Electric Imp is a startup building a card that brings all the connectivity needed to connect a device to the internet. It also has a cloud backend that lets people build apps that will take advantage of that connected device.<\/p>

At the GigaOM internet of things meetup<\/a> last week, Fiennes showed off a candy dispenser that was connected to the web. When someone tweeted @electricimp<\/a> or #electricimp it would dispense candy in an amount that related to the number of Twitter followers the person tweeting had. As you can see in the video below, it was a feature that Fiennes quickly had to turn off.<\/p>

But outside of novelty devices, Fiennes’ argument was that so far the internet of things hasn’t taken off — not because it wasn’t cheap enough, but because people building products weren’t focused on enchanting the user (and connectivity was hard). Check it out.<\/p>

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If you liked this talk, check out the others on defining the internet of things<\/a>, the future of our devices<\/a>, how to design apps for the internet of things<\/a> and security<\/a>. Or come to our next internet of things meetup in Boulder, Colo., next week<\/a>.<\/p>
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