Yves Behar Quotes

Virtually any appliance is going to be online. Appliances will talk to each other and to the power-generation system. Our appliances will pay attention to our preferences.

As the internet of things grows, as we have sensors on everything: cars, fridges, TVs then data is going to become ubiquitous.

In the smart home of the future, there should be a robot designed to talk to you. With enough display technology, connectivity, and voice recognition, this human-interface robot or head-of-household robot will serve as a portal to the digital domain. It becomes your interface to your robot-enabled home.

I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.

I started designing the greenest the most connected home before the iPhone and the iPad.

The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.

Accelerating technology innovations such as ubiquitous sensors, cheap computing power, and 5G networks will open entirely new opportunities and challenges.

I live in quite a smart home. I built it from scratch, so I thought of everything… a lot of my doors are automatic; the whole house is voice-activated.

We do a lot of consumer research. Consumers believe the smartphone will be the remote, meaning that it will orchestrate a lot of things. So maybe you will take your connectivity with you to the car.

Everything we can think of that should have a processor, and they'll all be connected. People talk about fridges re-ordering when you run out of milk, but it's going to be much bigger than that. The transition to this world will require a huge number of applications to be developed, and that's a huge opportunity for Infosys.

Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.

Ambient Devices is what I call part of the Third Wave of Internet devices.

I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!

I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.

I would love to have a robot at home.

Nest is one vertical implementation of a set of smart products for the home. But we will support other people's smart products for the home.

Our view is that Quark can make almost everything smart. We'll show you some things that you would never have thought could become smart and communicate.

Google has the business resources, global scale and platform reach to accelerate Nest growth across hardware, software and services for the home globally.

The Internet of Things tell us that a lot of computer-enabled appliances and devices are going to become part of this system, too: appliances that you use around the house, that you use in your office, that you carry around with yourself or in the car. That's the Internet of Things that's coming.

Founded by an ex-Apple employee, Nest devices do for thermostats and smoke alarms what the Mac did for PCs - Google Buys Nest made them relevant and far more valuable.

There will be 50 billion devices, modules, sensors connected to the Internet by 2025, and that will give opportunities.

We hope to be a leader in the convergence of consumer electronics and communications.

When it comes to technology and the home, I really don't want to see any of it.

I think with the proliferation of mobile devices and then, eventually, the Internet of Things, we literally have supercomputers in our pockets and supercomputers that will hang on telephone poles and in light bulbs.

If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.