Category: Smart Home

OK, won’t lie. I first became aware of so-called “electric scissors” when I saw an influencer hawking them on the TikTok Shop. The basic promise is that you can break down cardboard…

At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Over the long term, it’s probably the least expensive smart pool monitoring option around Subscription includes hardware component replacements as needed No plug-in Wi-Fi bridge needed…

Dutch smart home hub manufacturer Athom has added new energy-monitoring capabilities to the app for its Homey series of smart home hubs and Homey cloud services. The company also announced the new…

It’s been more than two years since Apple pulled the switch on an all-new architecture for its smart home app, but there are still plenty of users who are hanging onto the…

It took Ikea some time for Ikea to get onto the Matter bandwagon, and now that it’s on board, there’s growing evidence the home furnishings giant is about to wade deeper into…

For years, owners of Google’s Nest Protect smoke detector have been asking when their devices would make the leap from the older Nest app to Google Home, and the answer was always the…

The InkPoster, unveiled at CES 2025, aims to revolutionize the display market with a low-power, high-resolution alternative to power-hungry LCD displays. Developed through a collaboration between PocketBook, E Ink, and Sharp, these…

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“Hey Google, turn off the lights!” is what my kid says every night after he’s gone up the stairs to his loft bed — and a second later, this SwitchBot Button Pusher…

Ever wish you could turn a particular outlet on and off without using a physical light switch? Maybe for an outlet that isn’t even hooked up to a light switch? With smart…