Ikea’s Eneby Bluetooth speakers blend seamlessly into the background
If Ikea is your go-to solution for everything home-related, your time has come. The Swedish furniture superstore just announced the affordable new Eneby Bluetooth speakers, designed with a postmodern aesthetic and built to fit into any home.
iRobot wants its Roombas to be the eyes and roving sensors of your smart home
Because of the way iRobot's Roombas map users homes, it has the potential to make smart homes much more connected.
In a bake-off between Alexa and Google Assistant, the real winner is flavor
If you're going to bake chocolate chip cookies from scratch, you need to find a recipe. Both Amazon's Alexa and Google Home can help, but which is better?
Google Home’s new action helps music fans prepare for Coachella festival
Music festival season is fast approaching, and here to help you get ready is none other than Google Home. The smart home hub has debuted a new Coachella action.
Honeywell Lyric C2 review
The Honeywell Lyric C2 is a compact smart home camera offering wide-angled, high quality imaging, and the ability to differentiate the sound of a smoke alarm from a baby’s cry.
Walmart is making it easier to retrieve packages with 500 new Pickup Towers
Walmart is taking on Amazon once again in its quest to become your convenient, budget-friendly retailer of choice. It just added 500 new Pickup Towers.
Postmates delivers on-demand items, and gives you a pickup option, too
Postmates, the on-demand delivery startup, is expanding its offerings, and is giving customers the option to order certain items for pickup.
How to enable Amazon Alexa Brief Mode: less talky, more beepy
Here is our how- to enable Amazon Alexa's brief mode if you wish your Echo devices talked a little less and just got down to business.
Planet Deepblu wants to help you take the plunge into diving, book a vacation
Meet Planet Deepblu, a new booking platform for divers that calls itself the Airbnb for diving. It could help you book your next vacation.
U.S. Postal Service will take photos of your mail to ensure no letters get lost
Thanks to a program called Informed Delivery, you can now opt to have the USPS email you pictures of the physical mail that is coming your way.
Watch your lawn mower cut your grass – while you sit on your front porch sipping a beer
Swedish company Husqvarna Group is marketing its line of six Automowers in the United States for the first time. These robots will connect to the smart home via voice hubs like Amazon Alexa and Google Home. Future capabilities could include outdoor Wi-Fi, garden maintenance and security features in the future.
How much does it charge an hour? Google patents ‘digital babysitter’
Is Google working on a digital babysitting service? A patent filed in Europe in 2015 seems to show the logical extension of its forays into the smart home market, describing a digital babysitting platform with a variety of features to help protect infants and children from harm.
Order returning after Amazon accidentally locked thousands of accounts
Thousands of Amazon Prime members say they have not been able to access their accounts, which includes Kindle books, Amazon movies, and music.
Kenwood’s kCook is a multicooker that works with a Drop-style scale
A multicooker is a food processor that cooks, and the Kenwood kCook is a smart appliance that uses an app and Drop kitchen scale for more precision.
Alexa Announcements will help you save your voice by serving as an intercom
If you are the proud owner of an Amazon Echo device, you'll soon be privy to the associated smart assistant's latest parlor trick. It's called Alexa Announcements.
We’ve only just ‘scratched the surface of what’s possible’ with Alexa, exec says
According to an interview with an Alexa executive published in the Amazon blog, his team has only "scratched the surface of what's possible."
These awesome 3D printed houses offer a glimpse into the future of construction
3D printing is already starting to revolutionize major industries, including art and prosthetics. Next on that list: Architecture. From the dry heat of Texas to the frigid snows of Minnesota and Russia, these are the coolest 3D-printed houses out there that rely on a variety of printers.
The mind-reading AlterEgo headset (almost) promises telepathy with Alexa
Researchers at MIT have created the AlterEgo, an incredible wearable device that reads "subvocalizations," or words we say to ourselves in our head, and it could change the way we interact with voice assistants and mobile devices.
Fribo is a cat-like robot that tells your friends what’s going on in your home
Fribo is a robot developed by researchers in Korea, designed to help stave off loneliness. Here's how it works.
Plated plans to take meal kits from your doorstep to the grocery store
Plated co-founder and CEO Josh Hix told Digital Trends, "We’ve thought from day one that meal kits would need to be omni-channel."
Amazon Key smart entry system now available with eight new lock options
Amazon partner Kwikset is making Amazon Key a much more aesthetically pleasing choice by adding three new smart lock offerings to the Amazon Key Home Kit.
Louis Vuitton’s luggage tracker tells you if it’s landed in a different country
Louis Vuitton says its new Echo tracker will let you know "whether your luggage has arrived in the right airport or not."
Amazon is opening up its ‘rainforest’ Spheres to the public
Up to now they've been for the exclusive use of Amazon employees during breaks, but soon anyone can visit its "rainforest" Spheres in Seattle.
The Nest Secure alarm system finally works alongside Google Assistant
Nest Secure is finally catching up to its siblings thanks to a new compatibility with Google Assistant. You can now control your alarm with your voice.
Architects around the globe are exploring “vertical land” to solve homelessness
Architects around the globe are turning to a new concept described as "vertical space," stacking small podlike dwellings vertically on existing buildings, as a way to ease homelessness.
This innovative chunky padlock promises to be virtually unpickable
With a chunky design and innovative lock mechanism, this Bowley padlock promises to be virtually unpickable.
With ‘Routines,’ Amazon Alexa performs multiple tasks with just one command
Tell Amazon Alexa "good night," and she can turn off the lights, lock the door, turn off the TV, and play a nighttime playlist -- all with one command.
Want solar panels but hate their look? Tesla’s low-profile panels are now working
Tesla's new streamlined solar roof panels have now been installed in customer homes and are fully functional.
Study finds renters value smart home tech above traditional amenities
They times are changing again; property management company Entrata recently performed a survey of renters and found that the majority of them value smart home technology over traditional amenities like pools and workout rooms.
Apple’s latest hire just might make Siri seriously smarter
Siri launched several years before Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant, but it has fallen behind in terms of usability and features. That could be about to change.
Amazon Home Assistants is a new service that offers house cleaning
Amazon has begun adding house cleaners to their payroll -- not for the sake of cleaning Amazon's offices, but rather to help tidy up your personal space.
Amazon is hiring even more Alexa people than Apple is hiring for Siri
It would appear that Apple is looking to hire tons and tons of bright minds to work on Siri, but Amazon is hiring even more for Alexa.
Alexa correctly predicted that Villanova would be the March Madness winner
Alexa managed to correctly predict that the Villanova Wildcats would come away the winners of March Madness.
Open Meals is teleporting 3D-printed sushi to the ends of the earth
In the wide-open market seeking to create new, affordable methods of generating nutritious food, a Japanese company is offering a new innovation: 3D-printed sushi that can be "teleported" anywhere.