Gadgetory

hello i'm luis rafa cnet's here at qualcomm stand at mobile world congress 2013 taking a look at something that caffeine fiends will really enjoy it's a tablet and smartphone controlled coffee machine okay so here's how it works this coffee maker is hooked up to a Qualcomm 4100 atheros chip and then all you need to do is hold the tablet using a camera in front of the coffee machine it will then identify it that's using the view Fauria augmented reality technology and then you'll get this tablet interface here which you can use to control the kind of coffee you want you can set the time that it's set to brew you can choose regular or strong then you press brew and that signal is sent to the coffee machine you can even get a separate notification popping up on a different tablet letting you know when your brew is ready it's very cool stuff but here's the bad news this isn't an actual product it's going to be shipping it's just a concept that Qualcomm's whipped up to show how you can connect physical devices in your home to the connected devices you've got smartphones tablets that sort of thing a couple of other applications we've seen that you could use the technology for is controlling an alarm clock or a television the whole system is built on Qualcomm's all joint open-source software which is actually going to be shipping with a variety of Qualcomm chips later in the year so if you really wanted you could get hold of that chip and try and build something like this for yourself I'm the West ready for CNET suddenly in need of caffeine here at Qualcomm stand at mobile world congress 2013 you