bluetooth low energy

📅 May 21, 2014

Notifyr Forwards Your iOS Push Notifications to Your Mac

Forward Your iOS Push Notifications to Your Mac

Many of us spend a big part of our days in front of a computer. Wouldn’t it be nice if notifications from your iOS devices used some sort of ancient magic and appeared in your computer monitor? Well, back in April, we told you about pushNotify, a $0.99 Cydia tweak that forwards all your notifications from iOS devices to your Mac. If you’re not jailbroken and you want to benefit of this feature, there’s a new app in the App Store called Notifyr ( iTunes Link )that does pretty much the same thing that pushNotify does but it costs $3.99

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📅 February 19, 2014

BLE vs NFC [infographic]

Bluetooth Low Energy ( BLE ) and Near Filed Communication ( NFC ) are playing a key role in helping mobile technologies redefine how businesses and consumers engage with one another.

Bluetooth Low Energy ( BLE ) and Near Filed Communication ( NFC ) are playing a key role in helping mobile technologies redefine how businesses and consumers engage with one another. This infographic compares Bluetooth Low Energy and NFC, side-by-side.

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📅 January 9, 2014

iRing: IK Multimedia Introduces Its Gesture Controller for iOS Devices [video]

IK Multimedia introduced today its iRing, bringing advanced motion detection and positioning technology that gives you control over your music apps on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

IK Multimedia introduced today its iRing, bringing advanced motion detection and positioning technology that gives you control over your music apps on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

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📅 December 11, 2013

Smarty Ring Allows You To Remotely Control Your iPhone [video]

Ever missed a text or Facebook update because you didn’t notice your phone jingle? With the Smarty Ring those days are over! Remotely control your phone and never miss a call, text, alarm, tweet, you name it!

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📅 November 26, 2013

Cortado: Connect Your Physical Things To The Digital World [video]

Cortado connects your physical things to the digital world. It’s an Arduino that you’ll never plug in, and it works on all your favorite platforms including mobile (Mac, Windows, iOS, Android).

Arduino is one of the easiest platforms to get started building hardware, but since it’s creation the method of operation has remained unchanged – plug it into your Mac or PC to develop, then only when it is totally finished, build it into your project.

The Punch Through team is aiming to change that with their BLE enabled LightBlue Cortado, which allows you to develop Arduino applications wirelessly from nearly any platform (iOS, Android, Mac, Windows). To illustrate this fact, they claim that you’ll be able to use it right away upon delivery – without even opening the box. They even go a step further and say that if you download their iPhone App now, you will get a notification when it is being delivered to your door, making use of Apple’s support of Bluetooth LE.

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📅 November 20, 2013

Shopkick Teams Up With Macy’s For First Retail-Based iBeacons [video]

Shopkick has teamed up with Macy’s to bring the first retail-based iBeacons, which will allow customers to find location-specific deals, discounts, and recommendations in the Shopkick app while in a participating Macy’s store

Shopkick has teamed up with Macy’s to bring the first retail-based iBeacons, which will allow customers to find location-specific deals, discounts, and recommendations in the Shopkick app while in a participating Macy’s store, located in Herald Square, New York and Union Square, San Francisco.

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📅 November 19, 2013

FiftyThree Releases Pencil, A BLE Stylus For The iPad [video]

FiftyThree, the people behind Paper – the iPad app of the year 2012, has released Pencil – a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) stylus for the iPad.

FiftyThree, the people behind Paper – the iPad app of the year 2012 ( iTunes link ), has released Pencil – a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) stylus for the iPad.

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📅 October 11, 2013

HOW TO: Make An iBeacon Out Of A Raspberry Pi

check out a step-by-step tutorial on how to make your very own iBeacon out of a raspberry pi

First of all, let’s start by explaining what is iBeacons: Introduced with iOS 7, iBeacons is an Apple feature/technology that allows apps to recognize when an iPhone is near a small wireless sensor called ‘beacon or iBeacon’ which can transmit data to that iPhone and vice-versa using Bluetooth Low Energy ( BLE ). No need to touch or bump phones, or devices. In other words, iBeacons might just be the thing that ends NFC ( or at least poses a serious threat ). There’s already two companies that are jumping on board the iBeacons trains: Estimote and PayPal.

What is Bluetooth Low Energy? Bluetooth low energy (or Bluetooth LE, or BLE, marketed as Bluetooth Smart) is a wireless computer network technology which is aimed at novel applications in the healthcare, fitness, security, and home entertainment industries. Compared to “Classic” Bluetooth, BLE is intended to provide considerably reduced power consumption and lower cost, whilst maintaining a similar communication range. BLE was originally introduced under the name Wibree by Nokia in 2006, but it was merged into the main Bluetooth standard in 2010, when the Bluetooth Core Specification Version 4.0 was adopted.

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