This week, Kevin and I begin the show with a focus on Google's new enterprise glass product and a newly discovered smart hub from Craftsman (h / t Jimmy Hawkins). We also cover the Starling smart hub that can link your Nest equipment to your HomeKit account and discuss Kevin's reaction to the Ring partnership with his local police force. In smaller news, there is a new industrial hardware board for IoT, Google can help you find Tile, MIT has doubled its wireless capacity with a smart surface, and Philips Hue fixes a security flaw. We also look at Google's hardware numbers - or lack thereof - and close with a question about Zigbee devices that fall within the SmartThings network.

My guest this week is one of the creators of a new device designed to prevent your smart speaker from listening to your conversation. Demian Pimentel is an electrical engineer with pleasant solutions. Software development company Candian has launched a device called Paranoid, which sits atop the smart speaker and physically turns off the microphone or uses white noise to block the microphone from listening. When the user activates the Paranoid device using the Paranoid voice. either physically deactivate the smart speaker or it no longer generates white noise so that Google or Alexa hear the request. Pimentel explains why Pleasant built this and how it works for our listeners. It feels like a security blanket for people who are concerned enough about their smart speaker to spend $ 49 for a Paranoid device, but are still excited about the convenience of their smart speaker.

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