Jan 24th 2014, 18:49, by Jacob Kastrenakes
Shane Dyer is surrounded by a dozen or so home appliances made by a dozen or so different manufacturers. In his hand is a smartphone running a stylish app that can speak with every single one of them. It can turn on and off a series of light bulbs, check in on a smoke detector, and even change the temperature of a nearby fridge. It's a delicate, beautiful vision of the utopian smart home, and one that could hardly exist outside of his carefully crafted world.
But inside his utopia, Dyer is smiling. "We're at the very beginning of seeing what connectivity means," he says. As the CEO of Arrayent, one of a small group of companies that's popped up to help smart appliances connect, Dyer is one of the few people who can pull off even this...
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