Our resident maker, Danny, demonstrates how to combine the futuristic motion technology of Leap Motion with the power of SmartThings to control any number of lights, electronics, and gadgets in your home or office.
Oh, and the best part? Anyone who has SmartThings, Leap Motion can start playing with this integration right now! Just go to SmartThings Labs and follow the simple instructions to hook up your things.
Writer Bill Wasik examines how SmartThings is helping to revolutionize the way people interact with the things around them in this cover article for Wired:
"In our houses, cars, and factories, we’re surrounded by tiny, intelligent devices that capture data about how we live and what we do. Now they are beginning to talk to one another. Soon we’ll be able to choreograph them to respond to our needs, solve our problems, even save our lives..." (more…)
Buckle up as Jonathan Strickland, the founder of How Stuff Works, takes you on a tour of the house of the future and into a reality where you not only interact with the world around you, but where it also reacts to you.
Convinced that their house was either haunted or that their four-legged feline friends were snooping through their kitchen drawers and cabinets, two SmartThings owners hooked up an ingenious way to deter the culprits. (more…)
