Use a smartphone camera to capture barcodes instead of an expensive proprietary scanner, and wrap a suite of hardware and software around it.
The Circle with Disney hardware device is $99 and is the first product in what Circle Media hopes will be a suite of hardware and software products for connected families in the future.
Brava, a stealth-mode IoT company with plans to create a suite of domestic hardware and software products, would seem to face the same risk.
What we do know: Brava is a new IoT company that plans to create a suite of domestic hardware and software products, beginning with a kitchen appliance that aims to make cooking easier.
Some of Geeksphone's staff — including co-founder Javier Agüera — are moving over to the new wholly Silent Circle owned "single, vertically integrated company", so it's retaining mobile hardware expertise (with this ex-Geeksphone team based out of Madrid), even as it shifts focus to selling a mixed and integrated suite of secure hardware and software comms services to businesses.
In May, for example, Brava, a stealth-mode IoT company with plans to create a suite of domestic hardware and software products, closed an undisclosed amount of funding that more than doubled the $12 million in Series A funding it had raised the previous year led by TPG Growth.
The company's product family includes monitoring and analysis hardware and software, along with management modules, supplying a suite of tools for working with heterogenous big networks.
But on Tuesday I also got a tour of the editing suites where Mac hardware and software is pushed to the limits, including extensive use of eGPU support, and a different vision emerges.
In this context we have developed a suite of tools, consisting of both hardware and software, to enhance and speed up our technology commercialization capability.
Native Instruments creates some of the most popular and powerful hardware and software gear on the market, including its popular beat-production hardware/software suite Maschine.
