You were just woken up in the middle of the night by smart lightbulbs in your house blasting at full power for no reason.

Your bleary-eyed investigation shows they tried to download a firmware update and failed. At that moment, Alexa starts quietly whispering sweet nonsense to herself in the corner and Roomba starts slamming into the nearest wall.

What do you do?

Is your house haunted or have the machines finally started an uprising? Neither - it's just another day in the IoT wonderland.

This book reveals the concepts and methods powering perhaps the most ambitious technological concept of the twenty-first century - the Internet of Things (IoT) - and parades all the ridiculously named gadgets techies imagined to saturate the market before the competition.

Mystical, cheap and scalable, the idea of IoT attracts creative grifters of all shapes and sizes to try their luck in pushing yet another completely unnecessary gadget to the market in hopes of fleecing gullible buyers.

Some of the topics you'll find in the book are:

• Origins of IoT
• IoT Security
• Ethical Hacking
• Internet of Things
• Under The Cushy Foot of Tech Giants
• The Power of Infinite Funds
• IoT Toys
• Bio-robotics
• Predictive Analytics
• Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence
• Cybersecurity
• Big Data
• Business Intelligence
• Augmented Reality
• Virtual Reality
• Our Future
• And much, much more