Energy & Green Tech
Launched in 2015, a Google project has been holding the hands of people interested in going solar in their homes with the how-to and as important the why-to if to save on costs.
Security
(Tech Xplore)—BullGuard issued a press release at the end of last month making a case for why we need to be thinking about security for smart-home devices.
Consumer & Gadgets
A father finds out his daughter is pregnant after algorithms identify tell-tale patterns in the family's store card data. Police charge suspects in two separate murder cases based on evidence taken from a Fitbit tracker and ...
May 31, 2017
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Consumer & Gadgets
(Tech Xplore)—What if you had some virtual remote control for your home, no screen, physical remote, no yelling across the room?
Consumer & Gadgets
(Tech Xplore)—A California-based tech company Brilliant on Wednesday announced Brilliant Control, and in so doing showed its ambitions in the smart home marketplace.
Robotics
(Tech Xplore)—Cute is an understatement. It is chubby, wheeled and not only looks but sounds like a robot. Think friendly chirps. Meet the little home robot named Kuri. Evan Ackerman commented on it in IEEE Spectrum: "There's ...
Consumer & Gadgets
(Tech Xplore)—Sounds trite but a new product appears to be a security camera on steroids. Gadget watchers this week are talking about what Nest has to offer in the way of an outdoor home security camera.
Energy & Green Tech
(Tech Xplore)—Years back, a tiny structure in the woods evoked words like "hovel" or "shack" but tiny homes in the news now suggest that engineers, craftsmen and designers are on to a new train of thought about little houses, ...
Robotics
We see there is another member of the growing crop of "social" robots that are being engineered to help you through your domestic tasks: Meet Vyo. This is a home robot for controlling smart home devices. It's the result of ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Electronic devices in our homes are becoming smart but technology leaves a lot to be desired. Steven Shankland in CNET looked ahead to what might be a day in the life of a smart home: "Once it [our electronic world] matures, ...
