Home Design

SMART INNOVATION

As we lugged around a bricksized mobile phone in the early 1990s, who would have thought that 30 years on, mobile phones now hold our lives in our pockets. Most of us have smart phones and smart watches, we pay for things with our watch, we can check if it’s raining in Mozambique on our phones, or talk face to face with family and friends on the other side of the globe. It’s mindboggling stuff.

Smart phone capability is linked to the internet. Did you know the very first thing on the internet was a product created in 1982? It was a drinks machine at a university in Pennsylvania that reported how many drinks it contained and what temperature they were stored at.

In this ever-changing world, the advent of smart technology continues to evolve, and for the last decade

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