“Estimote makes iBeacons in little polygon shapes with cool colors and custom designs,” Alex Heath reports for Cult of Mac. “Designed to communicate over low-energy Bluetooth, Estimote Beacons can be used to alert nearby smartphones of a specific deal when they enter a shop, for example.”
“What if different items for sale in that shop had their own iBeacons?,” Heath reports. “That’s the vision behind what Estimote is calling Stickers, small adhesive sensors that can be put just about anywhere.”
Heath reports, “As more and more companies adopt iBeacon technology, expect to start seeing these kinds of little beacons everywhere you go.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote last December:
Apple’s Next Big Thing™ arrived in stealth mode right under everyones’ noses.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
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