Aeotec Z-wave LED light bulb and SmartFilm

Aeotec is always hiding the details well and not the best in providing gor product pictures but here is one thing that captured by attention. A Z-wave LED light bulb might be released on CES 2013
http://aeotec.com/z-wave-led-lightbulb
It seems to be able to work both for EU and USA. I'm so much hoping for this...

"Ambiance Series
Reflecting the fact that a smart home plays a major role in the pleasure we can derive from
where we live, Aeon Labs is expanding its Ambiance Series in 2013. A Z-Wave LED light bulb is
amongst the latest products to be offered with Aeon Labs’ LED Bulb bringing the perfect lightwarmth and brightness to Z-Wave. "

Aeotech is mentioning 23 new things. One more to mention is the Z-wave controlled smart film. Something that you put on your window and can "opaque" the window in no-time. The video link currently seems to link to anything else but video:
http://aeot.ec/smartfilm

Fibaro Z-wave movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K35uFXoa5c0&feature=player_embedded

I liked to promote this nice movie from Fibaro that shows some of the options available with Z-wave technology.

Razberry, the best of two worlds.

Ever wonder how and what will happen if you combine your two favorite things, the z-wave home automation protocol that is certified for over 700 devices ready to be fitted to your home and the Raspeberry Pie, super-cheap, mini computer? No need to wonder any more. For only 49€ you will get the Z-wave board to your Raspberry Pie. Some lines of codes and you should be able to turn off the light from the other side of the world with your iPhone. Go check out the details on  http://razberry.z-wave.me/buy.php

Raspberry Pie just got a descent friend

There is a lot of small computers this days but solid runs' cubox packs very good performance for it's size (and price).
http://www.solid-run.com/cubox

Flying camera for the blind spots

Engadget wrote a blog post of something that i'm pretty sure we will see more of soon. A un-manned in-door camera to cover the blind spots. Perfect!
http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/27/secom-offers-a-private-security-drone/
The price and the availability is a bit limiting towards residence currently. But this things usually tends to become cheaper fast. 

Merry Ubuntu 12.10 Christmas

Had a old PC where I could not get windows re-installed on. It complained about the pci.sys and I could not go around it. The windows 8 installation I had on it was only beta so I needed a new approach... Have had Linux dists before but they seemed to require a whole lot to get the hardware to work. But I thought I should get it a try. Since I have played with Raspberry Pi I was familar with Debian so I tried it. But it failed to also install. Then I thought that maybe Ubuntu would be worth to try. It's based on Debian though so I was not too confident that it would work. But see and behold! It was very easy.
I downloaded this to a windows machine:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/unetbootin/
Created a memory stick with the help of the application. Ubuntu is faaaaaar down in the list. Then I booted on the stick and after a restart it was completly installed, with USB, WiFi, Bluetooth ready and available!

Two small tips. Always when looking for data on google about Ubuntu it's worth to add also the release eg. Terminal Ubuntu 12.10. There is so big difference between the versions. So how do you open the Terminal in Ubuntu 12.10? Ctrl+Alt+T was the answer. Maybe in Ubuntu 12.11 there will be a desktop app for it. It's Christmas time so I can always wish for it.

They state that Ubuntu is for human beings and I start to feel that all the discussions about Linux on the desktops is maybe old... Linux is in the laptops!


http://skyisgrey.org/blog/ubuntu-desktop-course.html

Philips Hue meets Vera

http://www.meethue.com/en-US/getstarted Philip's Hue is a remote controlled lamp and a small bridge that you can connect your (i)Phone to.For 190'ish euro you get 3 lights a the control box that you connect to the router. There is plug in development to be able to connect all this to your Vera. Limitation from the box is only 50 lights and since they are not native Z-wave you need to live with another box for now. There is other post that shows that there might still be hope for native z-wave led's some time...
http://868mhz.blogspot.fi/2012/11/greenwave-ipv6-led.html
http://868mhz.blogspot.fi/2012/09/insteon-led-lights.html
http://868mhz.blogspot.fi/2012/01/screw-in-led-light-bulb.html

The z-wave screw in light module seems to not be selling that good anymore since I see it more and more seldom. But I like the idea but the design was a bit bulky...