Gallery: This Fancy Rock Wants to Protect Your Connected Devices

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    This is the Dojo. It's a security device that plugs into your Wi-Fi router, to watch over other Internet of Things gadgets.
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    Dojo has three main components: a small box that houses the computer; a digital, rock-shaped remote; and an app.
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    The base unit—the white computer—plugs directly into the Wi-Fi router. It serves as a kind of filter for all the traffic flowing in and out of any other device using that router, and is stocked with algorithms that learn about and analyze traffic in real time, to detect anomalies.
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    The rock-shaped remote isn’t loaded with much more than a lighting system that flashes green, yellow, or red concentric circles to convey security status to users. If it’s green, all is safe. If the rock flashes orange or red, Dojo has detected suspicious activity.
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    Gadi Amit, who designed the device, calls it “a digital pet rock, that’s kind of innocuous, and is just going to sit in the corner.”
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    Dojo communicates updates and alerts in conversational English, as if you’re talking to your house sitter on WhatsApp. Iconography is notably absent.
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