Smart home technology and automation have slowly moved into every room of the house. At CES 2018, smart sleep technology was on full (and queen-size) display. Nokia Sleep With a more palatable price tag, Nokia Sleep is a wifi-connected mattress pad which slides underneath the mattress. Using Nokia’s Health Mate app, which is now integrated with Alexa, sleep …
With the biggest consumer technology show on earth wrapping up today in Las Vegas, consumers have a lot to look forward to this year around the home. From smart toilets to an advanced AI security camera, here are several home product highlights from this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Kohler Konnect Smart Bathroom Range This smart …
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Harman Kardon’s Invoke is the first Cortana-enabled smart speaker. The Invoke will try to compete head-to-head with the Amazon Echo and Google Home, but will the product offer something new and better for users? The Invoke’s design feels high-end, and it features a smooth-turning volume control and touchpad located on top of the device. The speaker …
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The features for Alexa just keep improving and evolving. The latest feature to take a big leap forward is Alexa’s voice recognition. Of course, Alexa can recognize human voices already, but now it can also distinguish between individuals by voice alone, helping Alexa to give tailored results depending on who is speaking. The benefits of this …
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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 …
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 …