Smart Home

Amazon's Echo Show 8 smart display doubles as a security camera, if you're into that kind of thing.

When I was initially plotting out the review of the Eufy SoloCam E40, or SoloCam Pro, I was thinking about cheap…

The Arduino Oplà kit is a simple way to start building Internet of Things gadgets for fun and, for some, profit. The…

Most of us have long since replaced a standalone alarm clock with a phone, but the new Google Nest Hub is the first…

Amazon’s new Echo Show 10 will track you as you move across its line of sight, which feels strange at first. That’s…

There are two kinds of smart bulbs in this world—those that work well, and those doomed to languish in drawers with…

The Neabot robot vacuum is a stark white puck that hugs its charger like a baby monkey in a Harlow experiment. It…

I’m well aware that inviting Alexa—and therefore Amazon—into my shower is probably not-so-smart. Nevertheless, I…

Physically slight, the Eufy RoboVac G30 Hybrid is nowhere near as buxom as my Roomba, standing slightly more than…

I don’t know about you, but I’d like to be able to walk around my neighborhood with my kid without concern that my…

The HomePod Mini is $50 more than the Echo Dot, $75 more than the Nest Mini, and the exact same price as the larger…

With the idea of going to a good ‘ole movie theater seeming like a bigger and bigger pipe dream every day, I’ve…

It’s round. That’s the story, folks.

For the entirety of the two years I’ve coexisted with my dog, Cila, my house—previously a stronghold of order and…

We are a nation teetering on apocalypse, each week more fearful and anxious than the last. Maybe this is how I ended…

After buying Nest back in 2014, Google has been repositioning all of its smart home products under the brand, and…

Weather stations are sort of like a pocket protector for your lawn. They tell the world that the person inside the…

Despite my partner’s disdain for pet cameras, it makes sense that I, the neurotic dog mom, would want one. Every…

If I were to rank all the items in my kitchen that I thought could benefit from a smart upgrade, the faucet would be…

For five years it was just me and my sweet grey kitty, Charlie. I didn’t have pets growing up, so when the…