The "Internet of Things" is coming--is the U.S. ready with its IPv6 transition? In the Interop conference's early days, John Romkey was provoked into demonstrating a connected toaster. The Sunbeam ...

ARM chief technology officer Mike Muller has a fun job. He goes about collecting some of the most interesting things that customers are doing with the company’s microprocessor designs for the Internet ...

The Internet of Things may be the next big thing in appliances, in which your oven, your fridge and other things around your home will talk to your phone and to each other. Appliance Science looks at ...

Oh my. It’s this kind of stuff that makes it all worthwhile. I present to you an idea for a toaster that hooks up to your computer and can burn just about anything you throw at it onto the bread you ...

Hans Scarler's @mytoaster account was created in December 2008, as an early example of the Internet of Things' capabilities. A toaster’s Twitter page turns 10 years old this month. The @mytoaster ...

Toasters will end up shopping us to the man if we’re not careful. Here’s a brief guide to the slow rise of these bread-burning back stabbers. According to internet ‘humour’ site Uncyclopedia, Internet ...

If you were born in the 1980s, there’s a good chance you had your childhood scarred by The Brave Little Toaster. The 1987 animated feature about a group of sentient appliances in search of their long ...

The Internet can be a dangerous place. Hackers, bots and viruses are prowling the Web trying to turn your machines into zombies. Last month, a massive network of hacked devices helped temporarily shut ...