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What is a Sprocket?

A Sprocket is a small printer

The Sprocket is a small HP photo printer that you can use with your smartphone or tablet. The Sprocket uses no ink (in the traditional way of liquid or powder on paper), it uses zinc technology (developed by Polaroid). Here you use special Zinc paper for: Paper that is coated with multiple layers of transparent dye. The dyes are activated in the printer with heat pulses from the thermal print head. So with the HP Sprocket you can always have your printer with you and actually print out your selfage: With the printer app and connection via Bluetooth you get the old fashioned Polaroid feeling back, and you can hand that beautiful picture directly to Grandpa or grandma Without a computer. Read More

What is a TrackR?

A trackr is a Bluetooth tracker

Whether you're neat or sloppy, we all get rid of something. With the Stickr TrackR or TrackR Bravo you have a Bluetooth bunch finder, purse finder or whatever. With the app on IOS or Android you can see where the TrackR is, or maybe you have your keys but you lost your phone, then you can leave your phone with the TrackR. Read More

What is Eddystone?

Eddystone is a beacon standard

Eddystone is Google's response to Apple's iBeacons. A big difference with iBeacons is that the code of Eddystone is open Source: This means that it can be deployed on multiple platforms. Eddystone is a platform that allows devices with BLE to communicate with each other. Google itself does not want to create hardware, but it does indicate that it sees possibilities: for example, in Google Maps to show real-time messages in case of a delay. Beaco Read More

What does IoT mean?

IOT means Internet Of Things

With IOT it is about linking devices (and people) to the Internet. The IOT goes so far that all imaginable devices are connected to the Internet at any given time. There are more and more devices connected, and it is expected that 2013 is the year that IOT really breaks through (it has been thought since 1999 that this is going to happen anyway…). The Things ensure a reduction in wastage: wasting time, or attention, or energy, money, etc. The most tangible for most people is the smartphone, and device that is always connected, another device that also always emerges from publications about IOT is the intelligent refrigerator: the fridge that knows when something is on, and immediately an order for You do. Since 2008, the number of devices connected to the Internet is already greater than the number of people in the world, this will only increase in the coming years. 12 devices per person are expected to be connected in 10 years. Read More