Smart Home

Here’s How Microsoft Imagined the Smart Home of the Future In 1999

Early rumors may have hinted that Apple had a fully integrated smart home up its sleeve. But after today’s WWDC, we know that’s not the case. And it’s unclear what developers are going to do with Apple’s HomeKit, a piecemeal tease that implies you’ll soon be able to control your smart toaster with your iPhone.…

Tech News Matt Novak

Apple’s HomeKit Is an iPhone-Powered Universe of Gadgets

Instead of jumping head first into the smart home market by allowing iOS users to (finally) control all of their connected appliances and devices from a single app, Apple has instead decided to tip-toe through the connected home’s front door with a new API feature called HomeKit that ensures everything can be securely connected wirelessly,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Report: Google and Nest Want to Offer Home Surveillance

Google is reportedly hoping to add home security to Nest’s portfolio. According to The Information, it’s been considering a purchase of Dropcam—the worldwide leader in cloud-powered remote monitoring systems. https://www.theinformation.com/Google-Eyes-Home-Security-Dropcam https://gizmodo.com/dropcam-pro-a-burlier-webcam-to-help-you-keep-watch-ov-1443386807 The report explains that Google has been considering a purchase of Dropcam in an attempt to add another facet to its rapidly growing smart…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Just Flipping This Wireless Switch Is Enough to Power It

You might think that the humble light switch is so simple that it couldn’t really evolve much further—but you’d be wrong. Because this wireless switch, designed to work with the new breed of wireless bulbs, can harvest all the energy it needs to function from a button press. Developed by NXP, the switch uses NFC…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

A Forbes Reporter Hacked Smart Homes From a Thousand Miles Away

The connected house you can control from the internet or your smartphone? They might be called a smart homes, but some of them have some very dumb vulnerabilities. In fact, some of the houses made smart by a company called Insteon were insecure enough that a Forbes reporter could hack them from the comfort of…

Tech News Leslie Horn

GIZMODO at 2012 Smart Home—New Gadgets!

Last year Gizmodo and the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago partnered up to curate the technology for the Smart Home: Green + Wired. The exhibit recently re-opened for 2012 with new furnishings and a few our favorite new gadgets. MSI did an incredible job in 2011 creating a truly Smart Home that we wished…

Tech News Christopher Mascari

Here it Is: The World’s First Remote-Controlled (LED) Light Bulb

Don’t you hate getting all bundled up under the covers, your pillows in the perfect scrunch position under your head, only to realize you didn’t turn out the lamp on the opposite end of the room and there’s no way you’ll be able to sleep with that bright bulb shining in your eyes all night?…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

A Must Have Apartment For Millionaire Clock Lovers

This Brooklyn apartment has everything you desire. Privacy, space and a breath-taking panoramic view that will knock your socks off. The $23.5 million penthouse apartment has four clock-styled windows that gaze upon Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty, and both the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. You can rest in one of its three bedrooms or solitude…

Tech News Kelly

Walk Through the 2011 Smart Home with Joe Brown

If you haven’t had a chance to stop by MSI, Chicago to check out the 2011 Smart Home exhibit, it’s cool — you’re busy, we understand. Gizmodo’s own Joe Brown recently gave Discovery Canada a guided tour through the exhibit, so you can see some our favorite items in the house without leaving your computer.…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

AT&T Thought Future Cooking Would Look Like This Circa 1993

More dispatches from At&T’s eerily prescient vision of the future, all the way from the 90s. Here, the simple problem of needing an ingredient for a meal is solved with some cool retrofuturistic tech, replete with cheesy bleeps and boops. https://gizmodo.com/remember-the-at-t-ads-about-the-future-you-will-5362625 What’s great about this is that, even though the world is clearly built on…

Tech News Kwame Opam

GIZMODO at 2011 Smart Home – This is it!

As you may have heard, Gizmodo and the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago have partnered to curate the technology for this year’s 2011 Smart Home: Green + Wired. The yearly exhibit features guided tours of a modular, eco-friendly home built on the museum grounds and designed to highlight the bleeding-edge of domestic technology. And…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

GIZMODO at 2011 Smart Home Opens This Friday!

Gizmodo and the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago (MSI) have teamed up to bring you something amazing – the 2011 Smart Home: Green + Wired exhibit, opening this Friday, April 22, 2011! As the technology partner for the exhibit, we’ve taken the technologies that change the way we live, work, love, play, think and…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

This House Provides Sustainable Energy in a Half-Shell

Solaleya’s Pearl house takes on the counter-intuitive task of maximizing its energy efficiency by limiting the amount of solar energy it absorbs throughout the year. This tactic allows the structure to delegate energy-intensive tasks to the elements. The house has integrated photovoltaic panels on the white steel roof to collect sunlight and supply energy, but…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

GIZMODO at Museum of Science and Industry’s 2011 Smart Home

Gizmodo and the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago (MSI) are teaming up to bring you something amazing this spring – the 2011 Smart Home: Green + Wired exhibit. As the technology partner for the exhibit, We’ve taken the technologies that change the way we live, work, love, play, think and feel and incorporated them…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Nokia Smart Home Solution Puts Power of Control Onto Your Cellphone

With energy conservation and easy eco-friendliness on just about everybody’s agenda these days, one of the most popular concepts is the “Smart Home,” a living environment that knows just how much power you actually need to be comfortable and gives you not a drop more. Nokia’s hopping on that wagon with its new Nokia Home…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Hyperhabitats Turn Your Home Into a Digital Ecosystem

It may not be S.A.R.A.H., but Vincente Guallart hopes his smart homes will change the world. The objects in his model Hyperhabitats glow when they are in use, while an embedded microprocessor communicates that use to the rest of the building’s network. The ultimate goal is to give the physical world a structure similar to…

io9 Lauren Davis

Panasonic Smart Home Probably Won’t Try to Kill You like HAL 9000

Panasonic demoed their Smart Home concept at CEATEC this week. Smart Home seems to be an integrated system that controls the electronics in your house, from lighting to air conditioning to multimedia. Even the television will slide to follow you around, which actually looks sort of creepy and desperate. The mirror isn’t a mirror at…

Television Dan Nosowitz

Best Buy’s ConnectedLife.Home Automates the Life of Luddites for $15,000

Best Buy has decided to make home automation easier by offering its ConnectedLife.Home package, a $15,000 box-o-fun including an HP Media Center PC controlling an Xbox 360 as a media extender, along with a dozen Insteon remote light switches, a RCS networked thermostat you can control from that PC and a couple of Panasonic surveillance…

Tech News Charlie White

X10n: Watch, Control X10 Devices From a Web Browser

Sit in your fortified bunker (your home office) and watch your huge domain (your two bed, one bath townhouse) like The Architect (the old creepy guy) from The Matrix (down the street). With X10n, you can control and view all your X10 cameras without having to set up and maintain an expensive home network. When…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Hybrid Home Completely Off the Grid

Hybrid Technologies has almost finished building what it calls the Hybrid Living Home, a concept house that shows off hundreds of energy-saving and smart-home features. Using wind turbines, solar energy, earth tubes and high-tech electrical storage, the house is designed to be completely self-sufficient, achieving that holy grail that’s known as being off the grid.…

Gadgets Charlie White

Here’s How Microsoft Imagined the Smart Home of the Future In 1999

Apple’s HomeKit Is an iPhone-Powered Universe of Gadgets

Report: Google and Nest Want to Offer Home Surveillance

Just Flipping This Wireless Switch Is Enough to Power It

A Forbes Reporter Hacked Smart Homes From a Thousand Miles Away

GIZMODO at 2012 Smart Home—New Gadgets!

Here it Is: The World’s First Remote-Controlled (LED) Light Bulb

A Must Have Apartment For Millionaire Clock Lovers

Walk Through the 2011 Smart Home with Joe Brown

AT&T Thought Future Cooking Would Look Like This Circa 1993

GIZMODO at 2011 Smart Home – This is it!

GIZMODO at 2011 Smart Home Opens This Friday!

This House Provides Sustainable Energy in a Half-Shell

GIZMODO at Museum of Science and Industry’s 2011 Smart Home

Nokia Smart Home Solution Puts Power of Control Onto Your Cellphone

Hyperhabitats Turn Your Home Into a Digital Ecosystem

Panasonic Smart Home Probably Won’t Try to Kill You like HAL 9000

Best Buy’s ConnectedLife.Home Automates the Life of Luddites for $15,000

X10n: Watch, Control X10 Devices From a Web Browser

Hybrid Home Completely Off the Grid

Artemis 2 Crew Become First Humans to Travel Beyond Earth Orbit Since the 1970s

Artemis 2 Day 2: Follow the Mission With Our Live Updates 🔴

Labubus Might Be Labu-Bust After Pop Mart Posts Record Share Loss

Cursor’s New Tool Lets Users Delegate to a Team of Coding Agents

Nvidia Needs to Remind Itself What PC Gamers Actually Want

Iran Says It Hit Oracle Facilities in UAE

‘Invincible’ Season 4 Is Doing Right By Debbie

New Theory Says We’ve Been Overcomplicating the Big Bang

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

Let us help find what you are looking for...