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Crestron Horizon Thermostat takes on Nest with smart home integration
Crestron has added a new smart thermostat to its connected home range, with the Crestron Horizon Thermostat promising touchscreen convenience along with remote sensors as it takes on Nest and others....
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Wyze Floor Lamp learns your light demands
Wyze has revealed its latest product, and the company continues its spread through the smart home with the new Wyze Floor Lamp. Up for pre-order now, the new lamp comes what a Bluetooth remote control...
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Google Home won’t ring you anymore if your phone isn’t home
We call some products “smart” mostly due to the abilities they have that sometimes go beyond our own skills, at least when it comes to getting information from the Internet. There are times, however,...
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Google Assistant can now help find your phone and order your takeout
Google is adding four new Assistant features, aiming to streamline how its AI interacts with the smart home, helps with takeout orders, and even helps hunt down a lost device. A new “Hey Google, find...
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Meet Matter: The IoT badge aiming to simplify the smart home
Get ready to look out for a new name and logo as you shop for the smart home, with the Zigbee Alliance rebranding and launching a new name, Matter, for Project CHIP. The revamp sees the old alliance...
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Wemo Stage Scene Controller Review: Apple HomeKit remote needs refinement
Sometimes, only a button will do. The smart home and the rise of connected devices like lamps, speakers, locks, and more have brought complex automations within reach of a mainstream audience, but...
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Amazon Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 5 get a 2021 camera upgrade
Amazon has revealed two new smart displays, and while the 2021 updates to the Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 5 may not have an auto-swiveling screen like the Echo Show 10, they’re also a lot more...
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TP-Link Kasa Spot and Spot Pan Tilt cameras keep an eye on your home
Smart home products are called smart mostly because of how they’re able to connect to the Internet to allow for features and experiences that may not have been possible without such a connection. In...
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Google Nest and Android will support Matter IoT standard
It was really not unexpected that the beginnings of the smart home market saw different systems that spoke different languages, a.k.a. protocols, to coordinate their activities. There were attempts to...
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IKEA Symfonisk picture frame is a Sonos speaker in disguise
Swedish furniture brand IKEA enjoys both popularity and notoriety of its minimalist design, DIY assembly, and, more recently, integration with IoT technologies. Unlike makers of smart home products,...
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Philips Hue 4.0 app adds Automations and faster smart lighting control
Philips Hue is getting a new app, and with the fourth-generation there’s an increased focus on automation along with easier control to multiple bulbs, lamps, and bridges. It’s been a long time since...
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Nest smart displays to get Google Duplex support, Guest Mode upgrade
Google Assistant has always revolved around voice interactions but Google was able to give it a face in the form of smart displays. Now falling under the Nest smart home brand, Google has provided some...
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SmartThings app gets an overhaul to better tame the smart home
Samsung has launched its latest generation of SmartThings, with the smart home and connected devices platform promising to make automations easier and actions more stable. The revamped SmartThings gets...
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Apple HomePod is no longer available, but owners need not worry
Devices come and go, no matter how popular or how loved. Sometimes older devices are replaced by newer models, but there are also times when they are completely retired instead. The latter is the case...
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Level Lock offers doors a more affordable secret smart lock upgrade
Super-surreptious smart lock company Level has revealed its third product, and the new Level Lock continues the tradition of hiding its connected security features. Unlike other smart locks, which...
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Wyze Lock Google Home integration is now rolling out
There has been an explosion in smart home appliances in the past years but the most common kind has been smart lighting and smart locks. The latter has sometimes proven to be a bit controversial,...
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IoT has a long ways to go to be trustworthy
The smart homes and cities of the future are often painted as places full of transparent touch screens, voice-controlled assistants, and robots that can often predict what we need before we even ask....
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Google Nest products to get five years of security updates
Smart home products are getting more common and more accessible, but, as recent events prove, they are far from being the completely reliable and trustworthy parts of our lives that ads and videos...
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HomePod audio OS 15 beta reportedly causes overheating and damage
Beta software is labeled “beta” for a reason. They are often distributed only to people willing to test software for bugs and are willing to take the risk using potentially unstable software. Of...
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Nest Hello Quiet Time and Quick Responses are coming to Google Home
Google’s acquisition of Nest and eventual migration of brands and accounts unsurprisingly met with some pushback. In addition to privacy concerns, there were some issues when moving from Nest’s own...
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Samsung SmartThings Energy can monitor your power consumption
Global conditions seem to be conspiring to make us use up more energy these days. The COVID-19 pandemic forced many people to stay at home, consuming more electricity to while away the days. Unusual...
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Amazon Alexa finally gets a male voice and an additional name
Voice-controlled AI-powered assistants are pretty smart these days, but they didn’t exactly start out that way. They weren’t particularly smart about the way they sounded, at least not in the...
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IKEA STARKVIND hides a smart air purifier in a handy side table
IKEA has a new air purifier, though at first glance you might assume STARKVIND is actually a side-table, since the Scandinavian design company has integrated the two. Connected to IKEA’s TRÅDFRI smart...
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Google Nest Hub might have its very own app launcher
Although they look like stationary tablets, smart displays like the Nest Hub or Echo Show are specifically designed to remove that misconception. The software, in particular, has an interface that...
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Matter delayed: Ambitious smart home standard slips to 2022
New smart home standard Matter won’t launch quite as soon as first promised, with the former Zigbee Alliance admitting that its roadmap has been delayed. Unveiled in May, Matter saw what once had been...
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SmartThings Edge lets smart homes work without an Internet connection
Smart home devices and appliances can do a lot of impressive things, especially when they work together with a single command or automated scenario. Almost all of these smart home products and...
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Nest Doorbell first look: 5 things about Google’s battery video doorbell
Nest Doorbell is up for order, and the convenience of a simple-to-install, battery-powered smart doorbell seems hard to ignore. Having been using one for the past few days, though, there have been some...
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Segway built a smarter robot lawnmower
Segway may be best known for its balancing scooters, but its latest wheeled product is happy on the ground where it can focus on keeping the lawn trimmed. The Segway Navimow is the company’s first...
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Wyze Night Light Review: Deceptively classy
Wyze, the company you probably best know for its cheap smart bulbs and home security cameras, recently introduced a new product called Wyze Night Light. The name refers to the product — it’s literally...
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Roomba j7+ debuts iRobot’s big fix for avoiding cords and pet mess
iRobot is launching a new Roomba, and a new brain for its domestic robots, aiming to make domestic help in the modern smart home both smarter and more reliable. The Roomba j7+ will be the first robotic...
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Xiaomi Pad 5 debuts alongside Mi Smart Projector 2 and Mesh System AC3000
It may have been Apple’s day yesterday, but Xiaomi is daring to claim today for its own. Not content with just announcing the Xiaomi 11T series and the affordable Xiaomi 11 Lite 5G NE, the company is...
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Dyson robot vacuum readied for potential US release
Dyson has a robot vacuum they’ll likely release this year to roll up on Roomba. Appearing in an FCC filing this week, the Roomba robot vacuum shows a collection of features that make this device seem...
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Nest’s cheapest camera and its Nest Cam with Floodlight go on sale
Nest’s newest connected security cameras – including its first with a built-in floodlight system – are now up for order, offering new options inside and out. The Nest Cam (wired) and Nest Cam with...
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Arlo cameras now let Google Assistant speak when they detection movement
Google just announced the availability of new smart cameras under its Nest smart home brand, but those are hardly the only options available in a rather congested market. When it comes to security...
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Wyze Switch and Bulb White offer smart home lighting on a budget
Joining its newly unveiled Solar Panel and Lamp Socket, Wyze has also taken the wraps off two new products: the Wyze Switch and Wyze Bulb White. The two new products expand the company’s growing home...
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Proscenic M8 Robotic Vacuum Review
Even before smart homes became a thing, one piece of seemingly futuristic technology was already trying to make its way into our homes. Vacuum cleaners like the Roomba challenge our concepts of what a...
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Crestron Home Review: When the pros install your smart home
The smart home is, despite the name, usually pretty stupid. For all the talk of ecosystems and cross-platform standards, all too often home automation simply turns our phones into fancy remotes,...
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Kohler Power Reserve takes on Tesla Powerwall with modular home battery
Power outages, freak weather events, and a crumbling grid have led many in the US to question just how reliable their electricity supply is, and Kohler may have just the home storage battery system to...
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Kohler brings an auto-filling tub and a smart water leak system to CES 2022
It’s probably fair to say that, when Kohler first appeared at CES, some questioned a brand best associated with faucets and tubs being at the huge international tech show. Now, in its fifth year at the...
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Schlage Encode Plus smart lock eliminates the need for passcodes
Often, when new technology is released, you don’t realize what a change the tech can make in your life until you try it. For many people who have adopted modern deadbolts and doorknobs that operate...
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