LAS VEGAS —The tagline for Mother is "Mother knows everything," and that's a comfort as well as a turn-off. The newly announced Mother device from Sen.se looks like a cross between EVE from WALL-E and a Matroyoshka doll, but it's a programmable device with a touch-sensitive "face" that you program to nag you. No, really.
The Mother base connects to your network with Ethernet and collects data from little sensors called Cookies, then sends you alerts based on the conditions you set up. The alerts can be push notifications, texts, emails, phone calls, or just light and sound coming from the base.
A Cookie is a small tag that senses motion and changes in temperature, and sends data back to the Mother base using a 915MHz radio. You can connect up to 24 Cookies to one Mother, and reprogram them anytime. They need to be in range of your Mother to send data, but if a Cookie ventures into the world it can remember 10 days worth of data and send that to the Mother once it comes back in range.
The actual purpose of Mother is a little vague, but that's by design—it's supposed to accommodate a wide range of use cases.
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