GE Integrates Alexa into Spiffy New Light
Amazon’s Alexa get’s a sleek new home in this GE light fixture as part of their efforts to increase the number of connected appliances.
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Bring Nugget Ice Home with a Crowdsourced Design
FirstBuild is trying to give their community and consumers at large the opportunity to have nugget ice at home, right where they want it.
Arduino-Controlled Coffee Oven Wins GE Hackathon
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending a home appliance hackathon at GE’s FirstBuild facility in Louisville, Kentucky. If you’re anything like me, you’re probably wondering how anyone really could go about “hacking” an appliance. I was pleasantly surprised, and I think you will be too. Lets start with the facility. This facility […]
GE’s FirstBuild Offers $60,000 in Prizes at Upcoming Appliance Hackathon
Have you ever been standing in your kitchen, operating some appliance, and thought of a better way to do the task? Maybe you’ve come up with a change to the design that would make things easier or more efficient. That is the moment that FirstBuild hopes to capture. Currently there is a huge gap […]
The Growing Pains of Quirky’s Innovative Business Model
“We make invention accessible,” boasts Quirky, a company that develops products designed by everyday inventors through online submissions, and which currently offers 400+ products submitted by more than 1,000 inventors. It’s a complex, ambitious model for a startup– perhaps overly so. Despite glowing reviews from a variety of publications, cracks are beginning to show […]
GE Launches an Interface Board to Let You Hack Their Appliances
…and they’re giving away a batch of ovens and refrigerators to help launch the project.
Lessons from the Maker Summit
If you want an overview of the maker movement, yesterday’s Maker Summit is a good place to start.
