Around The Home
From home assistants to advances in heating and cooling systems and from robotic vacuum cleaners to voice-controlled lawn mowers, here's where you can stay abreast of the latest home automation news and developments.
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Mosquitoes are masters of evasion when indoors, seemingly disappearing after you unsuccessfully try to swat them or grab them out of the air. That's where the Bzigo Iris comes in, as it tracks them and shows you where they are.
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Leaf-blowers are the bane of suburban Sunday mornings. Now a team of engineering students at Johns Hopkins University has invented a kind of silencer attachment to radically reduce noise, which could be on shelves in a few years from Black & Decker.
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The Power Mole wirelessly transmits 10 watts of electricity through window glass, allowing indoor outlets to power outdoor devices. It's built on the inductive coupling technology utilized in wireless smartphone charging systems.
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December 03, 2024Here's a neat gadget for a touch of functional, neon-minimalist home decor: a palm-sized smart canister device that fixes onto a wall and uses slim, moving LED beams to create giant, glowing, multicolor clocks and/or temperature gauges.
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November 18, 2024Pushing heavy loads in a wheelbarrow may be easier than carrying them, but it can certainly still be a plenty difficult task. The eBarrow Kit was designed with that fact in mind, as it electrifies existing wheelbarrows.
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October 28, 2024Thirty years since Cosmo Kramer spruiked his coffee table book of coffee tables, a new companion tome has arrived, and it's become quite a hit. It's the coffee table book dedicated to coffee. (Sadly, though, it doesn't also turn into a coffee table.)
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October 22, 2024You won't need a green thumb, floor space or any serious commitment in order to create a thriving indoors oasis with this functional vertical garden. And you also won't need a lot of spare cash either, with the whole kit coming in at around $85.
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October 18, 2024If you find that you can never get the temperature quite right in bed, a new gizmo called the Homiffi could help. It cranks out either cool or warm air and also acts as a clock, a wireless charger, a Bluetooth speaker and more.
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October 09, 2024Nintendo has finally announced its latest piece of hardware – but it’s not the expected Switch 2. The Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo is an interactive alarm clock that wakes you up with classic game sounds and uses motion sensors to track your sleep.
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October 02, 2024In the premium coffee-obsessed world, the Aeropress has proven itself a beloved tool. It's never been the best-looking piece of kit, though. That changes with the Aeropress Premium, a more upscale press made from all glass and metal.
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September 11, 2024It's a competitive field when it comes to robot mowers, but this one may be a cut above most, with a pleasing price point, supreme weather detection, lawn mapping and a host of other features that mean you won't have to babysit it in the yard.
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September 10, 2024Suppose you want to change the color of your apartment's walls, but you don't want to bother repainting them back to their original color before you move out. That's where Unpaint comes in, as it's a paint that can simply be peeled off as needed.
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September 08, 2024Nobody likes washing dishes, but they keep piling up. The new Capsule Solo portable dishwasher from Loch Electronics is designed to make short work of that chore even while camping.
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August 28, 2024Rather than send those old Kallax shelving units to landfill, you may soon be able to pocket some extra cash from Ikea. It has decided to dip a toe into the used furniture marketplace with an online platform named Ikea Preowned.
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July 15, 2024For most of us, the home-brewing of beer is something that we leave to other people, because it just looks too complicated. Seattle-based company iGulu is out to change that, with its iGulu S1 automated beer-brewing machine.
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July 05, 2024Wi-Fi security usually means keeping virtual intruders out, but a new system claims to use Wi-Fi networks to detect physical intruders. Gamgee’s Wi-Fi Home Alarm System can learn to recognize people who belong there and alert you to strangers.
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June 17, 2024These remarkable non-toxic fire suppressors are the smallest on the market. They handle a variety of situations, including grease, engine, server rack and battery fires, using pyrotechnic technology – and they don't ruin what you're trying to save.
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June 13, 2024Meal kit delivery services are proving to be quite popular, but … you still have to cook the ingredients yourself. The Chefee home robotic chef is intended to take things further, by actually preparing hot meals that are ready to eat when you get home from work.
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