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Spoot: Spotted Early keeps Schneider Electric in one place: 3 stories so far. The section currently leads with “Apple's first smart home collection is real and shipping in December”, “John Ternus is making Apple weird again and twelve new designs prove it”, and “Your sofa's hiding the one outlet that finally learned to reach you”. Apple's smart home collection is real, it's shipping in December, and the first preorders are already live on the company's online store. John Ternus is making Apple weird again, and twelve new designs prove it. Spoot: Spotted Early New things, caught while they're still new and a little weird. Spoot finds fresh gadgets, clever inventions, crowdfunding campaigns,… The list below is every Schneider Electric story on Spoot: Spotted Early, newest first.
Apple's first smart home collection is real and shipping in December
Apple's smart home collection is real, it's shipping in December, and the first preorders are already live on the company's online store. Right now, that mostly means LG accessories, including a $299.95 Outdoor Cam, but the whole thing hinges on the new Siri-powered HomeView smart display, which dropped today. Apple co-developed these devices with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric, which is the kind of cross-brand collaboration that makes you wonder who actually controls the software updates. I'm curious what the HomeView feels like from a kitchen counter or a bedside table, the same question that drives our colleague Jen Tuohy's hands-on look at the device. Spoot wants to know if the hardware lives up to the promise, or if this is another case where the press release ran faster than the product.
John Ternus is making Apple weird again and twelve new designs prove it
John Ternus is making Apple weird again, and twelve new designs prove it. Fifteen years of polished arrivals, of showing up late with the best snacks, gone. Under Ternus, Apple has shipped twelve new designs in six weeks, and they don't feel like committee decisions. They feel like someone finally asked what if the thing had a hinge that made you stop, or a material that shouldn't work but does. I love it. This is the Apple that used to burrow into your curiosity and stay there. It helps that the new Citroën 2CV concept is doing something similar on wheels, reinventing a classic as a tiny electric roll-top, weird and wonderful. Ternus isn't polishing a legacy; he's prying it open.
Your sofa's hiding the one outlet that finally learned to reach you
The outlet behind my sofa is exactly where I don't need it. Reaching it means shifting a cushion, feeling along the wall, and hoping I've jabbed the plug in blind. Someone finally wondered: what if the outlet came to us instead? This thing turns the wall into a mobile dock, a power strip that slides along its track, stops where you stop, and disappears when you don't need a silver rectangle staring at you mid-yawn. It's the kind of detail that makes you resent every other outlet you've ever owned. A clever hinge, a weird material, a battery that shouldn't last that long; Spoot's been known to derail a whole write-up for less.