One of the biggest trends in holiday gift giving this year is smart technology – devices that make interacting with items around your home more convenient and interconnected. If you’re looking for some of the best smart home gift ideas for a friend or loved one, read on: iHome iSP6X SmartPlug – This little gadget can …
With a savvy smart technology friend or family member, it can be hard to choose the best gift for an Amazon Echo owner. After all, they already have an Amazon Echo, so they are clearly at the top of the consumer electronics game. That being said, the fact that they already have an Echo doesn’t …
Having a smart home means many little conveniences. You can set temperature, control TV and Internet access from anywhere. A smart home also allows for home security by remote, with smart cameras that track what is going on in your house. Amazon is finally entering the realm of smart home security with the Cloud Cam …
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Google Home was released late in 2016 and has become a big contender in the marketplace with Amazon’s Echo devices, despite recent setbacks. The voice-activated smart speaker uses Google Assistant, a remote home device control app which works as a personal virtual assistant. It can be used to look up localized shopping information, to schedule appointments …
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At first, nobody really had anticipated two of the country’s recent and fastest growing industries would merge together. Home automation devices have not been around a really long time but they grew popular quickly as soon as they came out. The idea of tiny homes is not new, but there has been a recent trend …
In order to compete directly with Amazon’s incredibly successful Echo Dot, Google released a similar, younger, smaller sibling of its flagship device. The Google Home Mini, however, made it to market with a fairly significant flaw Last week, one product reviewer discovered the bug in his Google Home Mini speaker after noticing that it was saving huge numbers …
The number of things you can do with your Amazon Echo grows constantly. There are companies continuously coming up with new products and skills to sync with your Amazon Echo and Fire TV too, now that Fire TV is Alexa enabled. There are a large number of skills that bring Alexa functionality more devices. Since the …
I’ll get right to it! Amazon announced four all new Echo devices: A revamped Echo, the Echo Plus, the “mini-Show” Echo Spot, and Echo Buttons Echo Basically, this an entirely new cosmetic design for the standard Echo. Key Differences: No smart home hub feature – This is really meant for music and connectivity with Amazon Prime …
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Amazon Echo Show’s product tag should read, “Alexa can show you things now*”. *except for YouTube. In a fire statement made to our colleagues over at the Verge on 9/26, we’ve learned that, essentially, “Youtube on Echo Show? Newp!” OK, so, officially, Google who owns YouTube, said they decided to change accessibility to their sites. This means YouTube, which …
While the IoT (Internet of Things) has developed a lot of interesting and increasingly useful applications, it’s still far from its full potential. People are surrounded by more and more devices which collect data for use in specific ways, but relevant collation and seamless use of this information is still lacking. This is where Neura …