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Some questions about mangoes, blockchain and fraud

Investors worldwide are pushing blockchain and the Internet of Things inside literally everything. Including food. This leaves many of us, including me, a bit confused and skeptical. Here is one case where a bit more of explanation may make things easier to accept.

How do you make fast fashion an even bigger problem than it already is?

Easy! You just mix it with the right buzzwords.

The smart devices that notify you when you are dumb

Every object, no matter how ordinary, can become smart and thus bring your life to whole new levels of joy and awareness. I just found two more proofs of this truth.

Gmail Buddy, aka "The Internet of Things we do NOT need"

an Internet of Things that we definitely don’t need

Gmail Buddy, aka "The Internet of Things we do NOT need" /img/gmail-buddy-no-thanks.jpg

there is a project, over at Seeed, that is a good example of a really (too) large category of projects that I really do not get. At least, I don’t get why they should have anything like “smart” or “smarter” in their name. I’m talking of

Reduce waste this week, next Christmas and every other day

The week from Nov. 22 to Nov. 29 is the European Waste Reduction Week. The reason for such an initiative is obvious from the 2008 images from Naples: many other cities worldwide risk similar crisis and it’s pointless to discuss whether one should recycle or burn waste if you don’t minimize the amount of waste in the first place.