Discard the foolish alarm clock Bonjour can be your personal assistant

Tencent Digital (Ren Yanmei) We are always talking about “smart home” and “smart home”. Is it smart to use mobile phones to turn on lights, turn on air conditioners or television? In fact, only a few Wi-Fi remote control functions.

The intelligent application I imagined should be that the device has a certain ability to learn and perceive, and at the same time, it has a wide range of linkage capabilities. Sometimes you don't need to put it very clearly, it understands what to do, such as:

When you want to sleep, and say goodnight to the alarm clock, in addition to answering it, it also knows to adjust the temperature of the air conditioner and lock the door.

Or, when it wakes you gently in the morning, besides telling you what the weather is, it can also show schedules and even morning run plans.

This alarm clock sounds cooler than Amazon Echo, isn't it? It is Bonjour.

Bonjour is French's "hello." Every time you say the word to the alarm clock, you can wake it up. At the same time, it integrates natural speech processing and contextual AI, and can achieve logical responses by reading data such as cell phone calendars.

For example, by reading the calendar, you will find that you have a meeting at 9 o'clock. It will also retrieve the map data to see the traffic index. If it is found that congestion will remind you to leave as early as possible.

Or, when you are tired and want to relax in bed, just say "Bonjour, I'm tired" and it will automatically search for relaxing music and help you relax.

Bonjour also has a wide range of IoT compatibility, including Nest, Philips Hue, SmartThings, WeMo and Alexa, etc. It can share data with various devices such as bracelets (sport applications), smart doorbells, light bulbs, etc. It can directly show who knocked on the door.

Bonjour is also a beautiful round alarm clock. The small screen in the middle seems to be its face. In addition to displaying the dancing dots, it indicates that it is thinking and can display content in different scenes.

Based on cloud computing, Bonjour will understand the tone of your voice as the use of time increases, improve the accuracy of recognition; at the same time, it can gradually understand your habits and needs, and more gently wake you up. For example, if the sun shines at the weekend, it will wake you up earlier, but if it is cloudy there is no agenda, it will make you sleep more.

Personally, integrating voice assistants and intelligent processing into alarm clocks is a very good idea, because compared to a smart speaker, an alarm clock is a gadget that everyone needs, isn't it?

Bonjour's philosophy has also been affirmed by supporters, with more than 3,700 users choosing it and raising funds more than 8 times the target. As for the price, US$109 (about RMB750) is also reasonable, and the delivery date is tentatively scheduled for June 2017 to provide global delivery services.

Source: kickstarter