A popular IKEA desk lamp gets a major smart and color upgrade.
Google Home has added new starters, conditions, and actions that let your automations respond to real activity like media playback and appliance status, making routines more flexible and far more useful than simple schedules.
The post You can now build…
If you’re an Amazon Prime member in the US, you might find you’re getting an automatic upgrade to Alexa+.
Robot vacuums are impressive devices that will clean your floors well and — thanks to bigger batteries and better robot brains — rarely get tired of doing their job. Over the last few years, these floor-sweeping bots have gone from utilitarian devices to full-fledged home robots that vacuum and mop your home, clean themselves, and […]
Homeowners in search of grid independence have another option today with the launch of Anker’s Solix E10 big-ass battery system. It joins companies like Tesla and EcoFlow in offering whole-home backup solutions in the US market meant to counter blackouts and reduce monthly energy bills, or even eliminate them completely. The base $4,299 E10 system […]
Anker has opened pre-orders for its latest smart hybrid home backup system, the Solix E10.
The post You can now pre-order Anker’s Solix E10 smart hybrid home backup system appeared first on Digital Trends.
Over the past couple of weeks, users on the r/alexa subreddit have reported getting automatically upgraded to Alexa Plus as a perk for their Prime memberships. The update doesn’t appear to be opt-in, but there’s an option to roll it back. Screenshots of a message from Amazon sent to users state that, “After your device […]
I can’t stop thinking about IKEA’s new Varmblixt smart lamp, and these are the 5 reasons I seriously want to upgrade.
…
The X2S Smart Thermostat is an easy-to-use Energy Star certified thermostat. It’s not the most modern-looking device, but it does the job.
…
I picked Aqara’s Smart Lock U400 and Roborock’s Saros Rover robot vacuum as the overall best smart home gadgets from CES 2026, but there were gazillions of other great gadgets on the show floor. It was a banner year for smart home products, and the big trends I saw weren’t about new product categories; they […]