Food Network is launching a fancy new subscription service with TV personalities like Giada DeLaurentis and Alton Brown, all tied to Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant. The Food Network-Alexa partnership takes advantage of the Echo Show’s capabilities …
GettyTiny homes are often seen as a passing fad or a millennial indulgence for those who want to follow superstar Marie Kondo’s life-changing magic of tidying up. But there’s more going on in the tiny house movement than meets the eye, especially for …
Kitchen appliances may well be how Judgement Day starts, given how much artificial intelligence is being packed into them these days but in the meantime, we’re getting some pretty cool intuitive features that have been virtually unheard of until now. T…
Smart apartments are going to be a thing. Here’s a major first step: Brilliant, a smart home control company, is hooking up with ButterflyMX, a manufacturer of a smart intercom device, to bring a modern smart home experience to multifamily buildings,…
One of Silicon Valley’s million robot companies brought another cool toy to the IFA conference in Berlin this month, and it sees, hears, and speaks as it cleans.The company is Trifo: They’ve been around for a few years, and they’re tapping into a serio…
Innit, the smart kitchen platform, is partnering with the ginormous food conglomerate Mars Food, to enable users to use Google Lens to scan some foods and get a bunch of interactive information like recipes, ingredient lists, nutrition advice, and…
Eldercare is about to become a big deal. There are tens of millions of baby boomers who are about to cross retirement age and plenty more who already have. Fortunately for them, there are a bunch of companies that might just make their life a lit…
IFA, commencing this week in Berlin, is Europe’s biggest tech show and a haven for new smart home technology, but well-established brands also get the chance to make a big splash. That’s been the case with the all-in-one home cooking platform SideChef,…
Crestron introduced the latest version of its seamless smart home platform and while it’s probably not exactly something you might expect to pick up at Walmart, it’s a pretty dynamic solution for smart home enthusiasts who want to integrate their exp…
It’s natural to want some of those groovy whiskey glasses that Harrison Ford’s character Rick Deckard keeps pushing on his replicant girlfriend Rachel in Blade Runner. Though they’re not cheap, and there are about a million knockoffs out there, we ca…
