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I’m having trouble describing what the Inlo is because I’m not sure if there’s really a phrase that can concisely explain exactly what the Inlo does. The Inlo is quite unlike any device I’ve seen before, and the best way to describe it is to reference Iron Man’s JARVIS by saying that the Inlo is quite literally your tech-butler that’s capable of doing everything from helping you find your phone, adjust the thermostat, or switch lights on every time you enter a room and off when you leave. The Inlo functions a lot like an assistant. It recognizes your ‘presence’, communicates with you, understands your needs, and helps make life easier by allowing you to keep track of your stuff. My description so far is still quite vague, so let’s just dive into what exactly the Inlo is, how it works, and why it’s so different from anything we’ve ever seen.

I’m bringing back my butler analogy because it just works. Imagine having a butler in your home. The butler opens doors for you, draws your curtains open when it’s daytime, warms up the bath every morning, lets you know where your keys or phone are kept if you ever misplace them in a hurry, and just makes your life more comfortable by handling the micro-experiences that make living easy. Now it wouldn’t be economical or futuristic to have a real butler do these things for you, which is why we’ve got something like the Inlo. The Inlo is a series of devices that plug into the sockets in your home. Using wireless connections, Inlo communicates with all the Bluetooth and internet-enabled objects around your house, from your phone, to your laptop, tablet, smart bulb, smart speaker, to even your door lock. Its ability to detect and communicate with wireless devices also allows Inlo to track your ‘presence’. If you’ve got a wearable on, you can program Inlo to treat the wearable as an extension of you – if Inlo detects your smartwatch ‘walking into a room’, it assumes it’s you wearing the smartwatch. Plug an Inlo device into every room in your house and you effectively create a network that allows this smart gadget to sense wherever you are in the house, adjusting things accordingly. This could mean having lights switch on when you enter a room, or having music play on the nearest speaker so you could ideally move from the living room to the kitchen and have your music ‘follow you’.

Inlo’s ability to sense your ‘presence’ goes as far as even having it differentiate between you and other members of your household. Without using any cameras (so Inlo never captures any actionable data on you), Inlo can track the presence of people simply by tracking devices they carry. The Inlo app allows you to create a floor-plan of your house and see every single wireless device in its location. This means you could see which room your family members are in, or even where you left your phone. Want to track something that isn’t wireless? Just attach Inlo’s wireless tracker to it and you’re ready. You could put the tracker on your keys, wallet, or even around your pet’s collar to know their whereabouts. Inlo’s network of devices – which they call satellites – can easily track the presence of devices and communicate with them based on how you’ve configured the settings.

This is the part where I talk about why Inlo is so different. Inlo’s versatility and its ability to easily map entire homes and the occupants within makes it much more powerful than Alexa, Google Now, or Siri. You could use Inlo to see which room your keys are kept in, or where your cat’s hiding. Inlo allows you to map your house and easily manage/automate devices within it to a degree that most smart assistants can’t… and the best part yet? The absence of cameras and facial recognition means Inlo can’t really spy on your home. It’s like your butler… obedient, helpful, always around, and fiercely loyal.

Designer: Jon Martin of Inlo

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Inlo – World’s First Indoor Positioning System

Inlo’s multi-faceted technology maps your home and can be used to simply keep track of your belongings by always having their location and status available at your fingertips, or to completely automate your life by having smart-lights, -thermostats, and -locks react according to your position in the home.

Map and Track Your Home

Be one of the first people to have an indoor map of your home, with real-time position updates of your favorite belongings, pets, and people.

With Inlo’s software you create a digital map of an indoor site. It’s like a secure GPS for indoors. Its tracking is enabled with Bluetooth.

End to End Encryption on Inlo accounts, secure you against any invasion of privacy. Positions of your objects can only be accessed by you and the people you give permission to.

Inlo works best with Satellites placed in each major room of the site. Inlo gets more and more accurate when you add more Satellites. The more, the better.

Inlo’s plugged-in Satellites work the same way that GPS satellites do. Inlo’s Satellites measure the Bluetooth signals coming from your paired devices and communicate with each other to locate what you’re looking for.

Control your Environment with Inlo Presence

Presence is a new way to interface with your electronics and your Smart Home and pushes the current limits of home automation. Presence does for location what Voice (Alexa and Google) does for speech. Inlo knows who you are, where you are, and where all your devices live. It activates your smart device preferences based on personalized triggers you set up in the Inlo app, under your profile.

Forget to switch off the lights, lock the door, and turn the heating off when you leave home? With Inlo, you can relax knowing that your home will automatically do these things when the house is empty.

Maximize Home Automation

With Inlo, you can now set up your smart device preferences to adjust based on where you’re at in your home and other personalized event triggers. You can create a profile for anyone, and have your home adjust to their settings. If multiple people in the same room have different preferences, Inlo will default to the Site Administrator’s preferences; or, for things like lighting and temperature, Inlo will average the preferences and set the room’s environment accordingly.

Pair all your Bluetooth devices easily for easy device management and tracking.

Inlo works with existing tracking tags (Tile or Chiplo) and makes them even more useful and easy to locate. With Inlo, you see exactly where your tag is located on a map of your home.

Integrate with your Existing Home System

Create multiple sites and link multiple profiles to a site.

Be Social with Inlo

When you’ve lost a Bluetooth device, others can scan it using the Inlo app and easily see the account it is tied to and return it to you. “The Crowd” is a network of Inlo users using the features from the free software.

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Los Angeles design firm Working Holiday Studio has transformed a property in the California desert into a shoppable holiday home that “stands out” against its desolate landscape

Casa Mami is located in Pioneertown, California, an unincorporated community outside of Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California.

After visiting the area Carlos Naude and Whitney Brown of Working Holiday Studio wanted to purchase a house of their own to spend holidays in and to rent out to overnight guests.

The 92-square-metre stucco house has an adobe-style construction and is situated on five acres (1.6 hectares) overlooking the barren desert landscape.

To make the tiny building “stand out” against its surroundings a black portico contrasts the updated white exterior and light-coloured gravel around the property juxtaposes the sandy ground.

“Most houses around the desert in that area try to blend in with the environment through earthy and brown tones, we wanted the opposite, we wanted our house to stand out which is why we chose to surround the house with white gravel to create a separation between the desert ground and house and painted it white and black, which not only made it really stand out but also brought a Mediterranean feel to it which is a good contrast to the dry hot desert,” Naude told Dezeen.

For the interiors, the designers took cues from Scandinavian and Japanese design styles. This was coupled with bright colours found in work by Mexican architect Luis Barragán and a mix of pattern and shape used by French interior designer Jacques Granges and British designer Terence Conran.

“I would say that we borrowed Luis Barragán’s use of colour – like the monochromatic yellow hallway, Jacques Grange’s ability to mix styles – between Scandinavian and Japanese, and Terence Conran’s incorporation of playful shapes and silhouettes,” he added.

Beige walls are paired with white moulding and painted grey floors throughout the house. In the kitchen the cabinets and drawers are punctured with a tiny hole to form a handle instead of with a traditional metal knob.

A set of translucent glass doors with black trim is situated between the open-plan kitchen and living space frames the desert landscape, which is speckled with vegetation. Another pair is located in the master bedroom furnished with two semicircular nightstands and black light fixtures.

In the living there is blue couch with rounded cushions and a circular coffee table topped with a terrazzo surface. The furnishings face a white, sphere-shaped fireplace installed to heat the tiny home.

The studio worked with over 30 brands to decorate the space with furniture, appliances and houseware items that guests can purchase online, forming part a new trend to design “shoppable stays”.

Others include a holiday house in Maine designed by An Aesthetic Pursuit to showcase its new furniture collection and a rental property in Long Island Studio Robert McKinley has decorated to double as a showroom.

Other details of Casa Mami are a hallway with bright yellow walls, decorative potted plants and an outdoor patio nestled into a corner of the structure.

It is also powered by solar panels and a hauled water system, so the homeowners and guests are more conscious about their energy and water usage.

Casa Mami has been longlisted in the hotel and short stay interior project category of Dezeen Awards 2020, with shortlists set to be announced at the start of September.

Working Holiday Studio is a Los Angeles design studio led by husband and wife duo Carlos Naude and Whitney Brown. It worked with Francesca de la Fuente on the renovation of The Ruby Street co-working space in Los Angeles.

Photography is by Carlos Naude, unless noted otherwise.

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The Lido looks like any innocuous table or kitchen-island, but give it a few adjustments and you can increase its area threefold. Made from oak (although it could just as easily be made in any other type of wood), the Lido uses hinged side panels to expand in size whenever you’re expecting extra company. Just lift the panels up and a mechanism causes an extra pair of table-legs to pop out too, giving you a stable table (I’m a poet and I didn’t even know it). Perfect for smaller apartments, the Lido comes with a relatively low physical footprint, but gives you the ability to swiftly and easily expand when you have guests over.

The Lido Table is a winner of the A’ Design Award for the year 2020.

Designer: Nak Boong Kim

Architect/furniture designer Ben Uyeda of HomeMade Modern is teaming up with design/build firm A05 Studio to release a new sustainable furniture brand called Hoek Home. At this point information is light–the brand won’t launch until October–but judging by the sneak peek, it looks like they’ll be doing lightweight, flatpack furniture without the Allen keys:

“Our patented system allows you to assemble sturdy modern furniture in less than 60 seconds NO TOOLS REQUIRED!” Uyeda writes. “It’s made in the USA out of sustainably minded materials like 100% recycled HDPE plastic and FSC certified plywood from our friends @purebond.”

At press time Hoek Home’s website had a “get notified” link and little else, but their Instagram has a few teaser photos.

Designed to give cats (as well as their human owners) the most aesthetic and comfortable drinking experience, the KittySpring is a great example of pet-centric design that also helps uplift and complement human spaces. The KittySpring is perhaps the most clean, pristine, and borderline luxurious drinking experience your cat can have. Inspired by nature and designed with minimalist/zen sensibilities in mind, the KittySpring is an auto-refilling water-bowl that looks great and gives your cats a wonderful drinking experience. It comes with a vertical reservoir and a flat water bowl that automatically gets refilled with fresh water from the reservoir as your cat drinks away.

The KittySpring provides continuous fresh water for your cat, unlike regular water bowls that sit for long, allowing the water to go stale. Made from materials that are 100% food safe and easy to clean, the KittySpring uses a refillable bottle that supplies water to a transparent bowl (with a pebble-shaped cover). The water passes through a stainless steel filter to ensure purity, giving your cats fresh drinking water whenever they need it. As the bowl empties, it automatically gets replenished by the reservoir using a unique gravitational system that’s completely noise-free since it doesn’t run on an electrical motor. The bottle and bowl are easy to clean too, and can be rinsed with soap-water or even placed in a dishwasher for thorough cleaning. The stainless steel filter, on the other hand, lasts for years without needing replacement.

The KittySpring’s most striking feature has to be its aesthetic. Designed to beautifully complement spaces, the drinking bowl (some may call it a water fountain) sports a beautiful minimalist aesthetic, with a rippled clear drinking bowl that creates wonderful caustic patterns on the floor below. Designed for humans and cats alike, the KittySpring is made from robust materials and features a non-slip mat that makes it difficult to knock over. All in all, it provides a great drinking experience for your feline friend, with a wide bowl that’s big enough for two cats and shallow enough to keep their whiskers from getting wet, and a great experience for humans too, as the bowl promptly auto-fills on its own, so you don’t have to rush to fulfill the whims and demands of your fussy feline. Your cat overlord will surely be impressed!

Designer: Rayman Wu of Desimore

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KittySpring – The Most Cat-friendly Water Fountain

The KittySpring keeps your cat always hydrated with this non-electric & whisker-friendly water fountain, without having to refresh their bowls constantly.

“It all started with Oscar, our founder’s cat, who developed kidney problems because of dehydration. After long months of painful struggle, Oscar began to recover. To celebrate his comeback and help our furry friends stay away from such problems, we came up with KittySpring,” says CEO Rayman Wu.

Features & Benefits

Enough Water Every Day – KittySpring ensures it satisfies the daily need for a cup of fresh water (0.8 oz/lb) for 2 whole days. Licking water from KittySpring’s shallow and wide dish design ensures your cat’s whiskers never brush against it and never hurt because of whisker stress.

Must-meow fact #1. If cats don’t drink about a cup of fresh water every day, they can quickly develop problems with kidneys and urinary tract, diabetes and other diseases.

Must-meow fact #2. Cats’ whiskers are sensitive. They can even hurt when brushing against a bowl, resulting in condition a.k.a whisker stress of fatigue.

Non-electric, just gravity.

Silent like a sweet nap. KittySpring has no motor, which means no scary noises for your cat and a quiet night’s sleep for you.

Good for many cats. KittySpring can serve water not only to one but even two cats.

Hard to knock over. No more puddles of water.

No need to replace the filter. The built-in stainless steel filter lasts for years.

Easy to install and clean. Simply unbox it, fill the bottle with water and place it in any corner of your house. No plugs, no cables needed!

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