Episode 41: Can a $20 device stop the spread of disease?

After a week at CES, the giant technology trade show in Las Vegas I’m beat, but full of observations about the future of the Internet of things. I wrote up a few over at Fortune, but Kevin and I talked about some of them on this week’s show as well. We covered some new news, including my conversations with Wink and the news that Amazon is planning to add support for thermostats to the Echo next. And speaking of amazon, both Kevin and I think a smaller Echo needs to have some way of offering always-on listening to really carry over on the benefits of the product. But if it does, we’d both buy it. The $20 wired Kinsa thermometer. After spending most of our time on the smart home, we move into connected health with Inder Singh, the CEO of Kinsa, the maker of connected thermometers, as this week’s guest. But it would be a mistake to think of Kinsa a connected thermometer company, since the thermometer is merely a means to an end. It’s a way to get data about the spread of disease. Singh’s actual goal is to use that data to help stop the spread of disease, starting with childhood illnesses. To learn more about the future of epidemiology packaged as a $20 or $60 connected thermometer, listen to this week’s show. Hosts: Kevin Tofel and Stacey Higginbotham Local control is coming for the Wink! Really tiny, self-sufficient computer at CES. What a tiny Amazon Echo needs to have to succeed. Kinsa is a disease prevention device disguised as a connected thermometer How to figure out how to build the right device for the data you need. The post Episode 41: Can a $20 device stop the spread of disease? appeared first on IoT Podcast - Internet of Things.