This week, Guus and Joe talk about building connected tables, and why connected furniture as we’re seeing it might not be the best idea. Also an involved discussion about why building prototypes is so important to find out how products connect to user behavior.

• Joe starts at the top ranting further about Siri and WWDC. The discussion looks at Apples drive to incorporate Siri into current devices, which offers limitations while at home.
• Guus and Joe briefly look at Amazon and Google offering their solutions to connected home automation and better natural language processing – and why those may be stronger in-home devices.
• Guus talks about building a connected table with particle.io photon micro-controller and an accelerometer. These components allow the table to record tapping or knocking and control devices around it – including playing mysic and turning on the lights.
• Guus talks about signal filtering, why it’s useful, hooking up the table to our resident bot (aio) to handle natural language commands, and why companies should look more into middle services for user needs - ’The state of messaging’
• Joe and Guus discuss why the table, and connected furniture that has activation purposes is a bad ideas and why builders need to understand user behavior or risk ending up on the Internet of sh*t.
• Take a look at our connected on our instagram
• Guus discusses functions that could be useful based on context and how that might work.
• A short discussion ensues about a 1984 future where sensors can tack productivity and desk time.

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Hosts: Joe Fletcher and Guus Baggermans // Creative Director and Principle Designer at Raft collective. Embracers, hackers, and early adopters of IoT technology.