We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Turning your home into a smart home is extremely popular – so popular, in fact, that it has become a $28 billion industry in America as of ...

So-called ‘smart home’ appliances and gadgets have become an ever-more present thing the past years, with nary a coffeemaker, AC unit or light bulb for sale today that doesn’t have an associated ...

Google today released a new Android OS with some modest improvements, a smartwatch with an old-but-still-newer chip, and a Pixel 8 whose biggest new feature is seven years of updates. But buried ...

Smart home automation usually gets framed as something that starts with a shopping list. A hub, a smart speaker, a few bulbs, a sensor or two, maybe a subscription somewhere in the stack, and at that ...

There’s a scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory where a little flap in the wall flips down to reveal a small organ embedded there. Gene Wilder plays a bit of Rachmaninoff on the organ, and ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I am not, by any definition, a coder, but when I started seeing people’s vibe-coded smart home projects all over ...

Apple is preparing to introduce a new smart home hub that could transform how you interact with and manage your connected devices. Recent discoveries in iOS 26 code have revealed details about this ...

If you have home appliances or analogue or mechanical switches you would like to control remotely, you may be interested in a new smart switch called the OUVOPO. Using the companion phone application ...

Every year, after recovering from CES, I take a step back and evaluate the most influential IoT technology trends. This year’s winner is Matter, a new industry standard for smart home connectivity ...