home automation

In what amounts to a very clever bit of hardware hacking, developer dekuNukem (the hacker who created a little…

The tech industry loves a coalition. Sometimes those coalitions lead absolutely nowhere, but in one particular case,…

Listen, Apple’s great at a lot of things, but building smart home gadgets ain’t one of them. In fact, its dismal…

Just in time for some much-needed spring cleaning, Dyson just took the wraps off a cordless vacuum upgrade that will…

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…

If you’ve ever wished your Echo device was a control panel, well, good news: Amazon’s Lab126 hardware division is…

The Eufy RoboVac G30 Hybrid vacuum/mop is, prima facie, a clear upgrade over the Roomba 650 that raptly held my…

Unless you’re super rich, you’ve probably never heard of Savant. The home automation company brags about catering to…

YouTuber Avboden has a home automation system from 1985, and he recently created this video to show people how it…

While I personally prefer an auto-lock that doesn't connect to the Internet and expose my home network to the antics…

"If you can't say something nice," the saying goes, "don't say anything at all." If I stuck to that, this would be a…

Smart locks, along with intelligent lights, are the standard bearers for today's home automation movement with…

Yesterday, we posted about the potential future of the Apple TV as your smart home hub. It prompted an analysis from…

Being able to control virtually everything in your home with just a few taps on a mobile device is fantastically…

Smart home thermostats are becoming quite common and, for the Nest at least, downright popular. But most of these…

The Clapper may have been little more than a joke in its day, but it's stuck around for a reason: Simple home…

GigaOm has a report on Apple's forthcoming connected home system. According to the site, it might be a hell of a lot…

Philips has announced the upcoming release of three new products in the Hue lighting ecosystem: a streamlined and…

Belkin continues its pursuit of making home automation a simple plug-and-play affair with the introduction of its…