Amazon Prime Day is almost here, serving as a great way to get excellent deals on all kinds of products. This year, we’re expecting to get a ton of great deals on smart home equipment, from smart light bulbs, to smart locks, to smart switches. No matter what you’re looking for, you should be able …
It isn’t very often that we see the biggest names in the world of technology combine forces for the power of good, but that’s exactly what Amazon, Apple, and Google are doing for the smart home industry. On Wednesday, Apple shared a press release on its site announcing that it is going to collaborate with …
Today at Google’s I/O 2019 keynote the company announced a new upgrade for some of its most important smart home products. Positioning its new products as a solution for a “helpful home,” the company revealed that it will be rebranding all of its smart home gear as Nest devices. To that end, the company said …
The Philips Hue range of smart light bulbs are the benchmark for lights that you can control with your phone, largely because of the variety of bulbs the company offers. Want an expensive color-chaging bulb for that weird fixture in your bathroom? Sure! Replace all your ceiling lights with colorful options? That’ll be $600, but …
If you throw a rock in a home improvement store you’ll hit at least two dozen different home lighting solutions. There’s smart bulbs and dumb bulbs, island lights and track lighting, and so many sizes of lamps that you could spend a day browsing and still not get through them all. With that being the …
While the future of our homes is inevitably “smart” — smartphones, smart TVs, smart appliances, smart wearables — the phrase “smart home” is still something of a misnomer. But this week, SoC semiconductor designer Sigma Designs revealed a new chip that could open the door to the smart home we’ve all been imagining. Sigma’s new …
2017 has seen plenty of trends, but one that seems to actually be sticking is the smart home. I’m not talking about Wi-Fi-connected kettles or Bluetooth water bottles; those are dumb, but believe it or not, there’s a handful of smart home devices that are actually good. Unfortunately for avocado-eating millenials, the bulk of smart …
Blinds and shades are often overlooked as the crucial interior decor they are. They are designed to frame the window, and if done properly, can bring a new energy to any room. On the other hand, anyone who’s experienced the “joy” of wrestling entangled cords in a attempt to get the blinds to stay in …
It wasn’t that long ago that outfitting your home with a security system required an appointment with some fancy monitoring company, a likely pricey estimate, and then lots of drilling, wire-running, and testing. Today, thanks to the exploding popularity of smart home devices, you can order a security system in a box, slap some sensors …
Never one to let an opportunity to slap a hard-to-pronounce name on a new line of products pass it by, Ikea has decided it’s time for it to jump head first into the smart home market. The company just launched a new line of connected lighting accessories that it calls Trådfri, which is apparently Swedish for …
