No Longer Vaporware: The Internet of Things Is Finally Talking | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

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The Internet of Things is the long-prophesied phenomenon of everyday devices talking to one another—and us—online, creating new behaviors and efficiencies. It turned out to be vaporware…

Until the past few years, that is, when the landscape shifted from below.

Hackers began using increasingly inexpensive sensors and open source hardware—like the Arduino controller—to add intelligence to ordinary objects.

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