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LG THINQ Smart Appliances lower power bills & add remote control
Home automation generally means having an expensive third-party system installed, or trying to cobble your own setup together using something like X10 or ZigBee. LG wants to change all that with its...
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HomeSeer Home Troller-Mini home automation controller debuts
For a long time if you wanted to automate your home that often meant a computer that you could put somewhere to run the automation software. Those computers could get really expensive and even if the...
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HCL Aegis low-cost home automation gateway supports WiFi, ZigBee, DLNA,...
HCL has announced Aegis, a multi-platform home automation gateway which promises to control your multimedia, energy monitoring, HVAC, security and more, all through Android, iOS and Symbian devices,...
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Genius Light Switch Design by Taewon Hwang
Have you ever walked into a house and had trouble figuring out what switch controlled which light? Designer, Taewon Hwang comes through with this delightfully intuitive light switch concept. He takes...
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Kinect hacked for home automation light controller
Geeks are hacking the Kinect for all sorts of things all around the world. I like the Kinect most when it’s used to control a robot, but there are all sorts of other cool things that the Kinect can do....
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RedEye Pro home automation controller debuts
Home automation is cool and is something that lots of tech fans are interested in. The catch is that home automation can be expensive and difficult to set up and master. Once you have it set up though...
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Elan outs new 10-inch TS10 in-wall touchscreen for home automation
Home automation is one of the coolest things that you can do to your home if you have the means to implement the often very costly system. The idea of being able to control your entire home from a...
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HP CTO Phil McKinney demos TouchPad tablet controlling home appliances
HP has a lot in mind for the TouchPad tablet that runs WebOS other than just the standard tablet duties we are all familiar with. HP is going all out to reach that number one plus status that it dreams...
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Fraunhofer unveils wireless window sensors for home automation that get power...
I have always wanted to automate my entire home by installing sensors for various things along with controls for the lights and more. Two things make adding home automation a big issue for existing...
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Nest Learning Thermostat makes heating iPod-sexy
Turn down the lights and turn up the heat: it’s sexy time, and your thermostat is crooning Barry White songs at you. Controlling the temperature of your AC or heating is not usually something we give...
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Twine offers easy entry to “internet of things”
Google isn’t the only company working on the “internet of things,” with a Kickstarter project called Twine looking to release compact WiFi-enabled sensors that can get web-dumb devices online. A...
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Nest iPod-style Smart Thermostat gets a detailed teardown
A few months back we reported on a device called the Nest Learning Thermostat. This iPod-esque smart thermostat is available now and comes from Nest Labs – led by ex iPod chief Tony Fadell. The neat...
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LG to unveil Smart ThinQ next-gen smart appliances at CES
LG has announced that it will be showcasing its next-gen Smart ThinQ technology for smart appliances at CES next week. The new and improved Smart ThinQ will help make home appliances more efficient and...
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Belkin WeMo promises iPad home automation
Home automation is something plenty of geeks dream about, but has a reputation for being tricky and expensive to implement; now Belkin hopes to address both of those concerns with its new WeMo...
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Energizer Edge Accent Light hands-on
Here at CES we are seeing all sorts of exciting and innovative products and this one in particular was so unique that I had to share. This is the Energizer Edge Accent LED Light and it will never burn...
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ZMote Smart Cord makes home automation Bluetooth-simple
Home automation needn’t be difficult if there’s just one or two things you want to turn on and off remotely, with the ZMote Smart Cord packing Bluetooth into a regular power cable. A three foot...
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TI spurs Internet of Things with easy-embed WiFi chip
The “Internet of Things” drive, where every electronic device can communicate with each other in a mesh of digital linkery, continues to gather pace, with Texas Instruments unveiling a low-cost...
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HVAC stalwart Honeywell could’ve bested Nest decades ago
It seems that one of the world’s largest thermostat makers, Honeywell, had a learning unit quite a few years before the now-popular “Nest” did, and nixed it soon after its conception. Speaking with...
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MOTHER artificial intelligence forces nerds to do the chores… or else
If you’ve ever been inside a dormitory full of computer science undergraduates, you know what horrors come of young men free of responsibility. To help combat the lack of homemaking skills in nerds...
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AT&T Digital Life home automation revealed and detailed
This week the folks at AT&T are coming on strong with a home automation solution for not only the US market, but the rest of the world as well. Targeting international service providers with their...
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