Roku You probably know Roku from its streaming boxes, but now the company wants to make several more areas of your house smart, not just your TV. Roku has announced its full incursion into the smart home market, with smart ...

The Toidi/Shutterstock.com No Ethernet runs in your house? No problem. If you have coaxial cable, the stuff used for television connections, you can convert them to Ethernet for high-speed connectivity across your home. Table of Contents Why Run Ethernet Over ...

Grumpy Cow Studios/Shutterstock.com AI assistants are becoming so prevalent and advanced that one day, instead of parents saying “Go ask your mother,” they’ll be saying, “Go ask Alexa.” It must be a bit odd for a young child growing up ...

u3d/Shutterstock.com There isn’t a room in the house that’s been given the futuristic treatment in science fiction more than the kitchen, not the garage, not the family room, and certainly not the solarium. I don’t actually know what a solarium ...

Nanoleaf & Corsair When it comes to smart LEDs, Nanoleaf is one of the best options you can get. If you have already decked out your home in Nanoleaf lightning, you can now synchronize them with your PC, using Corsair’s ...

Grzegorz Czapski/Shutterstock.com It’s always hard to watch cooking shows when you don’t have a snack, because you wish you could be eating what you’re watching on screen. This feeling is even worse when viewing an old episode of Star Trek: ...

Ember It seems like the best reason to own a smart coffee mug is so you can be one of those old-fashioned driving test instructors who says something like, “If that coffee spills, you fail.” You could make that threat ...

Nanoleaf Matter 1.0 was officially announced on October 4, 2022, and the actual rollout is just around the corner. Here are the devices you can buy today that will be automatically updated to become Matter hubs when the smart home ...

Google For over two years, an alliance of tech companies has been working on Matter, a unified standard for connecting smart home devices that aims to fix all the complexities of current products. Now the standard is ready for prime ...

Google A new sweeping update to the Google Home app includes a new layout, live camera views, improved automation with powerful scripting, watch and web-based control, and more. Here’s a breakdown of everything new. Sign Up for the Public Preview ...