Home Networking

It's not cheap, but this twin-unit router system floods a bigger area with a stronger, faster WiFi connection than anything else on the market. Netgear's Orbi system is super quick and easy to set up, and offers exceptional performance for homes with lots of high-bandwidth devices.

When your Wi-Fi stops working, you can usually plan on spending the next five minutes restaring your broadband modem, router and/or access point and hoping that does the trick. ResetPlug is designed to prevent this irritating procedure by automatically hitting the power reset button for you.

Nest Labs has announced the launch of a developer program designed to drastically expand the diversity of its home automation devices and the number of products they interact with. Names like Mercedes-Benz, Jawbone and Google Now are already on board.

Gasoline refineries hackable from a 65 km distance, household cameras deployed against their will and trained on you, and a Toyota Prius driven with a laptop: Gizmag looks at a few of the biggest hacks from this year's DefCon and Black Hat security conferences held in Las Vegas.

Netgear and Belkin will be among the first to bring the fifth generation 802.11ac routers to market, promising faster speeds, more bandwidth for mobile devices, and improved range for your home network.

Microsoft Research is looking to unify electrical appliances within the home with the development of HomeOS, a lightweight "smart home" operating system.

Earlier this week, NXP Semiconductors announced a US$1.00 Greenchip which enables every light bulb to have its own wireless IP address. It has since announced it is to make its JenNet-IP, ultra-low-power, wireless software available as Open Source

The Netgear 3DHD Wireless Home Theater Networking Kit delivers multiple jitter-free 1080p high-definition video streams throughout your home.

January 28, 2009 Crestron has released a new range of occupancy sensors to enhance the functionality of its Green Light™ environmental controls, further reducing energy usage. The sensors have built-in microprocessors and photocells which cont

Logitech’s Squeezebox Duet network music system integrates home audio by allowing users to access Internet radio, online subscription services and their personal music library, wirelessly, through any speaker system in their house wit

The Starry Night™ Sleep Technology Bed packs in a range of high-end entertainment hardware to play with when you are not asleep, and when you do drift off, there's plenty of technology left over - including an anti-snore system - to help you make the most out of your rest.

We've spent the morning messing about with our Xbox 360 to bring you the lowdown on the new DivX/XviD playback functionality... because we figured your boss wouldn't call watching videos "work."