{"id":50345,"date":"2012-05-17T12:20:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T10:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=50345"},"modified":"2012-05-17T12:20:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T10:20:28","slug":"synchronise-appliances-using-network-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/50345-synchronise-appliances-using-network-card.html","title":{"rendered":"Synchronise appliances using network card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>A new start-up called Electric Imp has created a system where users can control their household appliances through a network connection.<\/p>\n<p>The technology works through a modified version of an Eye-Fi card, which will be inserted into different machines and appliances in order to synchronise and control their operations.<\/p>\n<p>Users can then utilise functions on their appliances through an iPhone or Android smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>Founded last year by former iPhone engineering manager Peter Hartley and former Gmail designer Kevin Fox, the Electric Imp device will be released as a developer preview bundle in June and the first compatible devices later this year.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Electric Imp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.electricimp.com\/\">Electric Imp<\/a> via <a title=\"Electric Imp news\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/05\/17\/electric-imp-connects-devices-appliances-internet\/\">Engadget <\/a><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New company develops networking card to synchronise appliances<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":50349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[11755,11759,11757],"class_list":["post-50345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-electric-imp","tag-eye-fi","tag-network-appliances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}