The Apple Watch has become the most popular smart watch in the world. While primarily used for fitness training, the Apple Watch can also extend control of your smart home devices beyond smartphones. In this article, we’ll take a look at the best Apple Watch-supported smart home apps. Smart Lighting Smart lighting was one of the […]
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For many people, working from home is the dream. Imagine you could wave goodbye to the commute and the office politics. Sounds great, right? But even if you know your work won’t suffer, convincing your boss to let you work from home is rarely easy. Your superiors will think your work will suffer. That your productivity will […]
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Two years ago, Amazon quietly released the Echo, a 9-inch tall cylinder speaker controlled by a cloud-based voice assistant that goes by the name Alexa. Thanks to the Amazon Echo’s popularity, Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is about to unleash a voice-powered speaker of its own, the Google Home. Next year, Apple could also join the […]
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Halloween is coming, which gives us all another excuse to spend money on new costumes, pretty lights, and scary smoke machines. Whether you’re hosting a Halloween house party or want the coolest haunted house in the neighborhood, making those lights flash in time to music and sound effects is essential. Here are five apps and […]
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The smart home industry in 2016 looks much different than it did only five years ago when Nest introduced its first-generation smart thermostat. No doubt, the industry will change again half a decade from now. It’s time to jump into your time machine. You’re about to uncover what could be the biggest trends in the […]
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Small home installations seem to be getting easier with each passing year as the technology that powers smart devices improves. Unfortunately, problems still happen, as the following examples show. It Was the Light Bulb Back in 2009, Raul Rojas become one of the first in Germany to operate a smart home. Nearly everything in the […]
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