Most modern air purifiers also measure indoor air quality which you can read from the device or a companion app. Not the IKEA STARKVIND air purifier though. While the STARKVIND does detect particles, it does not tell you how bad it is. That said, if you need insight into indoor air quality, you will need …
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If the different smart home standards have stopped you from adopting smart home technologies, then you will be glad there is Matter. Why Matter matters? Well, it is the latest wireless interoperability standard that unifies the smart home and should make using smart home standards from different brands possible (learn more HERE). If you have …
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Good news for folks who have not jumped on the Pixel bandwagon right away after it was announced because Google Store has just kicked off its Black Friday sale. Uh-huh. Already. At this rate, the next Black Friday is going to start the day after it ends. Just kidding. That’s obviously an exaggeration. But you …
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The scale of Xiaomi’s ecosystem is mind-boggling. You have no idea its reach and how it wants to take over your home (or maybe even your life). From phones to TV to rice cookers, this electronics giant of China will have you covered.
We live in an age where technology is taking over the world. With so many innovations comes a unique one – smart homes. These homes connect to the owners’ devices, and they can access them anywhere. You can turn on the heat or the radio in your apartment and do many other things while not …
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Don’t have money to drop for a truly smart refrigerator (if there’s even any at this point)? No worries, a London-based tech company Smarter is here to help. Its FridgeCam is on a mission to reduce food waste, starting from within the fridge. According to the folks over at Smarter, 7 million tonnes of food …
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Sometimes it’s hard to notice how much technology has changed. There is never a sudden overnight change, a leap from having a basic cell phone capable of carrying out phone calls and texts to a smartphone with apps, internet connectivity and GPS. It’s gradual and that means we often don’t notice just how much things …
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Internet of Things let you connected, let you control physical devices, but this Internet of Things here does not. It is not ‘useless’ either. Instead, it has a unique and interesting pitch: it wants to put a digital bird in your house. Aptly called Birdhouse, what makes thing fun is, you can’t see the ‘bird’; …
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Windows Mobile which originally touts Cortana may have died, but this voice control technology from the Redmond software giant continues to live on, more recently, on a la-Amazon Echo Harman Kardon speaker. Prior to that, the software juggernaut has also introduced Cortana to another home IoT device and it was a climate control system, AKA …
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So you never gotten around home automation yet? Probably because it sounds like a complicated business? I am afraid it is. Home automation is never simple. It involves a host of other stuff, which honestly, you really have to know what you are doing to get it going. However, lucky for you, all-in-one solution exists …
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