Tag Archives: smart home

In the past few years, online retail giant Amazon has expanded its reach far beyond e-commerce. The company made a splash in the artificial intelligence scene in 2014 with the release of the Amazon Echo, a smart home personal assistant that can assist with an ever-expanding variety of tasks. Ordering new household supplies is as easy as asking “Alexa” to ...

Yesterday, Filings from the FCC (Filings from the Federal Communication Commission) have released a new Apple Product with the model number A1844, which has currently not been assigned to any Apple Product. The hardware inside and the screw placement are in line with the existing Apple TVs, although it is not perfectly identical. But what would align also, is the ...

Winter is coming and the exhibitors at CEATEC 2014 have already thought about making your home more comfy and inviting. A fireplace is one of the classic home decor elements you would add to a lodge or a cabin home, but it does come with a fair set of risks. With these risks in mind, Dimplex created the Opti-Myst Electric ...

Hub by Premier Inn is a smart hotel that will allow you to control your room with your smartphone, to be opened in London later this year. The smart hotel will aim to attract customers who love smart homes and their smartphones as well, letting them control everything from lighting to temperature in their rooms. Rooms in the Hub smart ...

Amazon is one of the biggest e-commerce sites out there and the company has started developing its own electronics for consumers since 2007. We’ve seen the Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Voyage, along with the Fire phone and Kindle Fire HDX. It seems that Amazon is going to try its luck with another two markets: wearable technology and ...

IFA 2014 was filled this year with wearable technology and smartphones, but another main exhibition category was the home automation system. You could find smart home automation systems that can control the temperature, lighting, humidity levelg, security cameras and more through a simple application or platform like Apple’s HomeKit or Samsung’s Smart Home. But the Stack smart light bulb doesn’t need ...

One of the themes that became trendy at IFA this week was the Smart Home concept introduced by various exhibitors, including Samsung, at the trade show. Everybody must surely be interested in what can possibly make a home smart, so here’s a list of 10 newly announced products that will surely be in the smart home of the future. Dyson ...

Elgato will be an exhibitor at IFA Berlin this year, but the company has already announced the introduction of its new HomeKit to the market, with supposed full iOS 8 integration. The HomeKit will be fully compatible with Apple’s HomeKit home automation platform once iOS 8 launches. Elgato’s HomeKit will feature the Eve product line which comprises of various smart ...

Samsung has been quite the talk of the town lately with tens of products to be released at IFA Berlin this year, including the Galaxy Note 4, Galaxy Gear S and the company’s new Smart Home portfolio. We’ve talked a lot about the Note 4 and Gear S so the time has come to tell you something about the Smart ...

Microsoft Ventures is launching an accelerator for startups to develop home automation technologies and they’re doing it in partnership with the American Family Insurance company. They are offering a $25.000 equity for each startup, which is definitely an interesting decision by them. This seems like a way for Microsoft to make an insurance company feel important and feel like they ...