Smart home
Brighten up your dorm with smart lighting
Before you move into a dorm, upgrade the lights to smart lights to enhance your experience. Here's what you need to know.
What are the different types of smart lights?
There are many different types of smart lights for both indoor and outdoor use. Here's the ones you need to know about.
Review: Introduce Smart Lighting into your home with the Philips Hue...
You know what Smarthome product can get really expensive in a hurry? Smart Lighting. Do you know what Smarthome products shouldn’t need to get so expensive? Smart Lighting. Thankfully, there’s an introduction package out there that offers up a good taste of what smart lighting can do for your home. Introducing Philips Hue’s new Smart LED Dimmer Kit. It works out of the box and doesn’t even need apps or bridges to work properly.
Announcing the new Nest Cam for your home
I have a lot going on at home so leaving the house, even for just a few hours, can be stressful. If my kids are in school I worry about what my pets are up to, and if my kids are at home, I worry about whether or not a fight is breaking out or if someone is destroying the kitchen. That’s why I was so excited to hear about the newest Nest product, the Nest Cam. Not only is it a crystal clear 1080p webcam you can hook up in your home to check in on everything, it belongs to the Nest family of products so you know it will work alongside your Nest devices.
CES 2015 Smart Home Roundup Day 1: HomeKit and NEST
The world is watching CES right now, especially with intent on Smart Home and Wearables, two of the categories poised to explode with this year’s announcements. With lots to cover in the next few days, we stop in on the first products announced for the iOS HomeKit and the growth of the Works with NEST program
Smarten Up Series: Using a Baby Monitor
When your little one’s close to arriving and it’s time to think about buying a baby monitor, you have a few different ways to go. In this edition of the Smarten Up series, we take a look at whether to go video and audio (or just audio) and taking a modernized look at the the traditional baby monitor. Not only can you use monitors to peer in on whether your baby’s ok, but some even offer Air Quality and Room Temperature real time readouts. Read on to find out more.
What’s new at Best Buy for August?
July has a way of zipping past us, and before we know it we’ve landed in August and we’re a month away from back to school. It’s hard to believe time can go by that fast, but that’s the downfall of a Canadian summer. They seem to be over before you know it.
Thankfully there are still plenty of days left to spend outside soaking up the sunshine. While you’re enjoying the warm weather, you might want to grab your...
Netatmo Healthy Home Coach review
You might not know it, but the air quality in your home — or a particular room in your home — may be worse than whatever pollution is lingering outside. Netatmo’s Healthy Home Coach is a device that monitors the air quality in a room and provides insight in a very simple way through a companion app for iOS and Android.
Discover the Novi Security 4-in-1 Home Security System Kit
Come discover the Novi Security 4-in-1 Home Security System Kit in today's smart home post. This comprehensive kit offers 4 key ways to protect you and yours. It'll protect your home & family six ways from Sunday! Ok, let's make that 4. Click on through to learn all about it.
Withings/Nokia Smart Temporal Thermometer review
The Withings/Nokia Smart Temporal Thermometer is a small, light thermometer that will take your child's temperature as simply as swiping it over their forehead.