Google wants Android to take over your home with Android@Home

[anonymous]

Not content with taking over your mobile phone, Google has announced it wants Android to control everything in your house, with the launch of its new Android@Home feature.


Announced at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco yesterday , Android@Home will allow you to use Android devices to wirelessly control and interact with virtually any electronic device you own.
So that means that in the future you could theoretically tell your DVR to record your favourite show, open the garage door, adjust your thermostat or simply turn your lights up and down from an Android smartphone or tablet.
'We want every device in your home,' the company said on stage at the conference.

The Android@Home platform will be made freely available to developers so they can write apps that control various devices, with the ambition that eventually it could transform your entire house into a single connected network.

Engineering director Joe Britt shows off an Android-controlled lightbulb at Google I/O yesterday (Reuters)
While we're unlikely to see the first Android@Home based devices before next year, Google showed off a few examples of what it can do. They demoed a wirelessly controlled lightbulb from Lighting Science that can be turned on and off from an Android device - and that's likely to be one of the first Android@Home products to go on sale.
They also showed off an excercise bike that uses the platform to feed back data to your phone, giving you information about your speed and calories burned.
And they unveiled a home entertainment hub they'd developed themselves called 'Project Tungsten', which allows you to control things like music playback from your mobile and ties in with the Google Music service that the firm also announced yesterday.
Android@Home will work on Android devices running Honeycomb 3.1 or regular Android 2.3.4. Google revealed yesterday that a future release of Android, code named 'Ice Cream Sandwich', would unify the smartphone and tablet branches of Android into one single operating system that works across all devices.

Ice Cream Sandwich will be available in the fourth quarter of the year, and will be accompanied by a partnership between Google and many handset manufacturers and phone networks to ensure that all users get updates in a timely manner.

http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/862969-google-wants-android-to-take-over-your-home

Additional link with greater detail.
http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/37555/?ref=rss&a=f

 

[ShadyPat]

this is too much...

 

[NewyorkRealTalk]

Id get it

 

[Drayonis]

Security breach and someone sends a command that opens, your garage and unlock your doors. PSN anyone?

 

[moblack]

Security breach and someone sends a command that opens, your garage and unlock your doors. PSN anyone?

Homegrown postings would go up

 

[domex]

Security breach and someone sends a command that opens, your garage and unlock your doors. PSN anyone?

Can you imagen getting locked out of your own house!

 

[UltimateLurker]

Homegrown postings would go up

only on bgol

 

[domex]

Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring

The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.

The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine “goes beyond search” by “looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events.”

The idea is to figure out for each incident who was involved, where it happened and when it might go down. Recorded Future then plots that chatter, showing online “momentum” for any given event.

“The cool thing is, you can actually predict the curve, in many cases,” says company CEO Christopher Ahlberg, a former Swedish Army Ranger with a PhD in computer science.

Which naturally makes the 16-person Cambridge, Massachusetts, firm attractive to Google Ventures, the search giant’s investment division, and to In-Q-Tel, which handles similar duties for the CIA and the wider intelligence community.

It’s not the very first time Google has done business with America’s spy agencies. Long before it reportedly enlisted the help of the National Security Agency to secure its networks, Google sold equipment to the secret signals-intelligence group. In-Q-Tel backed the mapping firm Keyhole, which was bought by Google in 2004 — and then became the backbone for Google Earth.

This appears to be the first time, however, that the intelligence community and Google have funded the same startup, at the same time. No one is accusing Google of directly collaborating with the CIA. But the investments are bound to be fodder for critics of Google, who already see the search giant as overly cozy with the U.S. government, and worry that the company is starting to forget its “don’t be evil” mantra.

Read more here
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/

 

[domex]

 

[absorhaps]

I would rock with this. Just keep the traditional dead bolts on the doors.

 

[anonymous]

Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring

Alex Jones talked about this the day the article was posted. Google and CIA have always been close.

You don't have to believe this conspiracy shit for it to come to fruition.

Thanks for the input for the sheep.

 

[NewyorkRealTalk]

Hmmm.I just imagined my phone freezing up or me getting a reboot loop and not being able to access some of my shit.

 

[thundercat]

Pass

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

don't want it

 

[J.E.T.S]

and if?...

 

[domex]

Alex Jones talked about this the day the article was posted. Google and CIA have always been close.

You don't have to believe this conspiracy shit for it to come to fruition.

Thanks for the input for the sheep.

No doubt.

 

[Count23]

Security breach and someone sends a command that opens, your garage and unlock your doors. PSN anyone?

Homegrown postings would go up

Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring

The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.

The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine “goes beyond search” by “looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events.”

The idea is to figure out for each incident who was involved, where it happened and when it might go down. Recorded Future then plots that chatter, showing online “momentum” for any given event.

“The cool thing is, you can actually predict the curve, in many cases,” says company CEO Christopher Ahlberg, a former Swedish Army Ranger with a PhD in computer science.

Which naturally makes the 16-person Cambridge, Massachusetts, firm attractive to Google Ventures, the search giant’s investment division, and to In-Q-Tel, which handles similar duties for the CIA and the wider intelligence community.

It’s not the very first time Google has done business with America’s spy agencies. Long before it reportedly enlisted the help of the National Security Agency to secure its networks, Google sold equipment to the secret signals-intelligence group. In-Q-Tel backed the mapping firm Keyhole, which was bought by Google in 2004 — and then became the backbone for Google Earth.

This appears to be the first time, however, that the intelligence community and Google have funded the same startup, at the same time. No one is accusing Google of directly collaborating with the CIA. But the investments are bound to be fodder for critics of Google, who already see the search giant as overly cozy with the U.S. government, and worry that the company is starting to forget its “don’t be evil” mantra.

Read more here
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/

Thanks for the info.

 

[African Herbsman]

No thanks.

 

[456.North.side]

nah ill pass on this one too, someone else will do it and it will cost a little more but to at least TRY to avoid the direct contact with "the net" I will go the other way

 

[Les W]

oh you ain't know??

 

[Flawless]

yeah imma have to pass on that

 

[J.E.T.S]

oh you ain't know??

That's tight. Could cut DUI's.

 

[rundatrack]

Not fucking with it. Just want them to have something that compares to AppleTV. GoogleTV is just a browser.

Dont like all that shit controlled from my phone...fakk that shit

 

[Mo-Better]

Android jumped the gun and beat Apple to it. Apple had intentions of going this same route.