“Resilience in cloud architectures is like having an army of zombies at your command”
My heartfelt thanks go out to Mission, the British tech and hi-fi business, which held the first in-person event I’ve been to for the past 18 months. I picked out my most fetching face mask and pedalled over to just behind John Lewis on Oxford Street, where Zuma – also known as Mission and found at zuma.ai – had a little pop-up shop.
It was demoing a smart light fitting. Imagine a shotgun cartridge embedded in your false ceiling. The vents around the actinically bright LED element double as sound wave exits for the rear-mounted speaker drivers. This tube fits into the form factor of the old, hot, incandescent element downlighters we identify as “stylish and modern” in the strange terminology of home decorations.
But the visible parts and the lumps of wiring accompanying the device don’t give the full story. In essence, Mission is delivering a baby Alexa speaker that can federate with its nearby siblings. That changes the proposition from being a localised Muzak-piping novelty, to being a floor-shaking, phone-controlled, configurable smart room upgrade.
The last time
