How Verizon Is Playing Nice To Get Inside Your Future Smoke Detector

On the ninth floor of a office building overlook the San Francisco Bay, a demo room gleams with dozens of wireless gadgets -- none of which are smartphones. There's a VGo telepresence robot, a bike clip monitor made by Wimm Labs, and a sensor made by Intwine that can detect humidity data in a room and even paint fumes, and relay it to the web in real time.