Always keep an eye on your doorstep via the second-gen Ring doorbell
Ring, the outdoor home security company, today debuted its second generation Ring Video Doorbell to keep your home safe.
Awesome Tech You Can’t Buy Yet: Weed-killing robots, mini scuba tanks, and more
The Best Kickstarter and Indiegogo Projects combine equal parts ingenuity and inventiveness. Here's the best new ideas we've seen this week.
Airbnb wants to keep its hosts and guests from getting scammed, so it purchased Trooly
Airbnb purchased background-check startup Trooly Inc., with hopes that hosts and guests alike can avoid getting scammed.
A single sensor could hold the key to the future of the smart home
Carnegie Mellon researchers have developed a "synthetic sensor-based device that can monitor multiple types of phenomena in a room."
A freezer in the bedroom closet and more weird places to put appliances
Fridges usually go in kitchens, but some people use them for different purposes and put them in unusual or weird places.
How to make candles in your microwave
Like DIY projects? You can make candles using a few random items that most people already have lying around the house.
Ikea's new food recipes give you something to chew on — literally
Ikea is already in the business of providing you with your starter furniture. Now, it's in the business of providing you with starter recipes
After years of being incompatible, Nest is considering adopting HomeKit
Google-owned Nest is having a change of heart regarding Apple's HomeKit, and is "at least considering adopting HomeKit."
Weekly Rewind: A better hoverboard, solar paint, and a healthier tan
In the tech world, a lot happens in a week. That’s why we’ve compiled a quick and dirty list of this week's top 10 tech stories.
Light up your bathroom with IllumiSoap for all those midnight toilet runs
Going to the bathroom in the dark of night is already hard enough. Getting your hands clean afterwards doesn't need to be any harder.
Amazon goes all-in on physical stores, buys Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion
Amazon and Whole Foods Market announced a merger agreement by which Amazon will buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion.
Herman Miller designs office furniture that delivers activity reports
Herman Miller debuted Live OS, "the first human-centered, enterprise-ready system of connected furnishings."
Let Alexa order you a cup of joe straight from your own Bosch coffee maker
Bit by bit, you'll be able to control every aspect of your home with Alexa. The latest appliances to jump on the bandwagon are from Bosch
Amazon's new Dash Wand supports the full range of Alexa voice commands
Amazon's new Dash Wand can scan barcodes just as well as the old model, but it also supports the full range of Alexa voice commands.
Tea bags are downright barbaric next to Teforia’s $400 Leaf infuser
If ever you doubted that brewing the perfect cup of tea is nothing less than art, the Teforia Leaf is here to prove you wrong.
Know who’s at the door even if you aren’t there yourself with the Xchime
You don't have to answer your door to know who's at your door. Not if you have the Xchime Video Doorbell, now on Indiegogo.
Wi-Fi-certified smart homes eliminate dead spots from the garage to the patio
Thanks to Lennar and Alexa, you can soon buy a home designed with voice control, shopping, and home automation in mind.
Why buy a bunch of smart appliances when you can just buy an IntelliPlug?
The IntelliPlug from smart home company Cnct is heralded as the world's smallest and most affordable smart plug.
Solar-powered Roomba-style robot drives around your garden pulling weeds
The makers of the Roomba Robot Vacuum have created a solar-powered robot that will travel around your garden cleaning up weeds.
Anova Nano Precision Cooker is now available for pre-order for under $90
The Anova Nano aims to make sous vide cooking accessible to home cooks everywhere, and will have a price tag of just $99.
Eero’s new hub has twice the range and speed of its predecessor
Eero's new hub router is twice as fast and delivers twice the range of the previous generation, and supports Thread-enabled devices.
Contact-blocking option solves one of Alexa Calling’s big privacy concerns
As it turns out, Amazon admits that "there currently is not a way to block someone from contacting you" with Alexa Calling.
Indoor smart garden uses artificial intelligence to grow real plants
No matter how agriculturally dumb you may be, artificial intelligence is here to help. It comes in the form of AVA Byte from AVA Technologies.
If friends say you can't cook, treat them to a beer cooler sous vide steak
Austrian barbecue chef Christain Winkler shares his simple method for cooking steak sous vide with a beer cooler.
This bread from Bake In Space will literally be out of this world
Carbs are already our best friends, but a new kind of bread could be out of this world. We're talking about an experiment - "Bake In Space,"
NASA and Ikea are teaming up to build furniture meant for new horizons
Ikea is now "looking into how a Mars habitat can become more like home," so that one day we'll have furniture on other planets.
You needn’t be an astrophysicist to enjoy this home design, but it might help
When you delve into the meanings of Villa Ypsilon's name and study the design, it's obvious a teleconference phone was not the inspiration.
The Zest is a smart spice rack that tells you how best to season your food
Zest is a smart kiosk (spice rack) that makes use of computer vision to recommend which spices to use for what food.
Weekly Rewind: AI predicts your death, Britney gets hacked, NASA’s new Mars Rover
In the tech world, a lot happens in a week. That’s why we’ve compiled a quick and dirty list of this week's top 10 tech stories.
Tenba claims updated Roadie bags are uncrushable
bag maker Tenba announced the latest update to its Roadie bag line and they make some pretty big claims about the new bags.
Developing with Apple’s HomeKit just got easier, which could spur innovation
At the latest WWDC, Apple announced that any Apple developer with interest can start playing around with HomeKit.
Alexa will soon be able to control more of your TVs, apps, and set-top boxes
Amazon's new Video Skill API for Alexa makes developing apps that control your TV easier than ever. It's launching in June 2017.