Are back Ninja, this time to 'internetize' the home Perhaps the most famous meaning of 'ninja' lies in a successful comic strip: four little turtles who responded to the improbable names of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael, lived in the sewers of New York and from there they waged a merciless fight against malefactors and alien beings. Then 'ninja' became the sad acronym of “No Income No Job or Assets” (no income, no job, no activity), signifying the penniless conditions of many recipients of American 'subprime' mortgages.
But originally the Japanese word Ninja referred to a secret agent, often a mercenary, a spy, an infiltrator. And the latest incarnation of this word refers to another type of 'infiltrator', the 'Ninja Block', a slim device that aims to automate the home, connecting it to the Internet and allowing those who live there to do many things: for example, turn on the lights remotely, raise or lower the blinds, signal temperature and humidity, send alerts if someone shows up at the front door in the absence of the occupants, take photos and send them , and so on. There are also industrial applications: for example, sensors in a swimming pool can detect various parameters and transmit them via the Internet so as to warn of the need for cleaning or similar interventions.
Ninja Blocks is a Sydney start-up, the 'block' costs around A$200, and many have already been sold, not only in Australia but also in the US and the UK. The financing initially came from 'crowdfunding' (a way of asking for small stakes in the company via the Internet from individual savers).
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