What is the internet of things?

Google searches have been filled with questions about the internet of things. What is it and why does it matter? Is it safe? Is it even real? Here are some answers

Among its many other cultural and economic assets, Google is accumulating a rather comprehensive record of what is troubling us, from asking the search engine to diagnose our disease symptoms to whether we will ever find true love. It seems only natural, then, to turn to Google to decrypt the latest piece of technical jargon, "the internet of things".

It is a term that internet users have been peppering the search engine with questions about. But what does it mean for real life? We've taken the most commonly asked questions about the internet of things, and answered them using a real human being.