Smart Home Technology

Daily new smart technological products to help you turn your home into a smart environment!

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Another video about the top 5 smart home tech gadgets that will help make your life easier!

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10 Best Gadgets for a Smart Home

The era of smart homes has arrived. Wireless connections and the internet are slowly invading everything from kitchen appliances to thermostats. And soon you will have the power to control most of the things in your house from your smartphone app.

But there is a huge security risk in allowing house gadgets to connect over WiFi. They look at your every move 24/7 and gather a huge amount of data about your most intimate life. So it is only worth getting one you trust and believe in.

Most of the smart home gadgets available are way too complex and pointless. There are some however that can blend into your every day life. Which lets them make things easier and smarter. Instead of just getting in the way.

Independant.co.uk has put together an article about the 10 best smart gadgets in order to help you find the best and most trustworthy gadget for your home!

Here are some of the products they named:

Nest smoke detector: £89, John Lewis

Philips Hue starter kit: £149, Currys

Nest thermostat: £199, Nest

Canary security system: £133.35, Amazon

Belkin WeMo switch: £29, Currys

Netatmo weather station: £129.99, John Lewis    

iKettle: £77.90, Amazon

Logi Circle: £159.99, PC World

Yale Keyless Connected Smart Lock: £132, Yale

iRobot Roomba 620: £330, Amazon

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Here is the Part 2 of the Home Automation at CES 2016!

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Watch this informative video about the newest home automation products that were showed at the CES 2016 expo!

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Cleaner Air With Airmega

A Korean company has built a brand new air purifier called the Airmega. What makes this one so special is that it is incredibly smart. The gadget has tiny sensors inside it that analyze the air in the room. After processing the data, Airmega purifies the air until it has reached the recommended level.

What is also cool is that the Airmega also connects to a smartphone app. You can view all the data from there and even make changes if you wish.

Click here for more information on Airmega

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Nest Thermostat - Smart & Simple

A smart home can not only make your life simpler but also cheaper! Do we actually need to consume as much energy as we are, or maybe we can optimise it? Nest has done exactly that for heat.

How many of us actually turn down heating when we go outside? I can tell you that I for sure don’t. That is real money that we are wasting. It can look like its not much at first but once you look at the entire year and how much you would had saved, it begins to make you think.

Nest Thermostat is a super smart device. During the first week you will keep changing temperatures according to your taste. After that it starts learning your patterns and next thing you know it will know exactly what temperature want. For example once you leave to work the thermostat turns the heat down. And when you get home it has warmed the house up for you.

But what makes the Nest Thermostat especially cool is that you can also control it via an iOS or Android app. The device costs $249.

For a full review of Nest Thermostat you should check out this link: http://www.cnet.com/products/nest-learning-thermostat/

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Unlocking Doors With The Apple Watch

(via Macstories)

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August has released an app for the Apple watch that can be used to open August Smart Locks!

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A pretty good infographic for understanding what exactly are smart homes.

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Apple Watch Wireless Charging Dock!

Apple watch, the so called revolutionary smartwatch has been taken to new heights. What could they possibly do to make it even cooler? Well there is only one answer to that - wireless charging. For those who already have the Apple watch, you probably know how annoying it is to charge it with the cable.

Well I am really happy that Apple has now decided to come up with another solution to charging the watch by introducing their very first wireless charging gadget! To be exact what they released is a stylish watch dock that includes a charging magnetic puck. The magnetic puck can be lifted upwards so you can just wrap your Apple watch around it. Which also turns on “Night Mode” Or you can leave it flat and simply place your watch on top of it.

Either way it is a pretty cool dock that not only looks good but also works really well. It is available in Apple stores for $79 in USA and €89 in Europe. Now if only they could come out with a similar product for iPhones.

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What is better than being able to charge your device without having to plug a cable into it? Check out this pretty cool charging dock created by Apple for their smartwatches. A definite must for if you have an Apple watch!

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Wall mounted fireplace. Not a bad idea.

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Welcome

Welcome to my blog about home technology. I’m basically always looking for new ways to improve my home and I have found amazing new technology to be one of the best ways to do that. That is why I will mostly be sharing gadgets here that I find interesting and you might require in the future!

If you have any interesting gadgets you have found yourself and would like to share then feel free to use the “Submit” button to send them to me and I will gladly publish them.