Household Tech Category

If you don’t recognize the name “Tony Fadell” offhand, don’t worry; I didn’t either until I looked into it. Suffice it to say he’s a former Senior Vice President with Apple, and it must be good to have friends in high places as his new Nest Learning Thermostat is set [...]

The one great thing, I’ve always said, about science fiction was that, while it was often today’s science fiction,  it was often tomorrow’s science fact. And we’ve seen plenty of technology pulled whole and breathing out of the Star Trek universe of late, with the folks at MIT looking to [...]

Not many know this, but I got my bachelor’s degree in marketing. And I only wish I’d thought of this first, because as a marketing tool, it’s an absolute masterpiece. C&A stores in Brazil have introduced a new feature that will tell users in no uncertain terms–very objective terms at [...]

Just under a month ago, we first brought word your way about the Uppleva combination line of home theater hardware and furniture in one ultra-convenient and space-saving package. And at the time, it may have seemed like this wasn’t exactly going to be any great shakes for the home theater [...]

If you’ve ever looked at your Roomba, deeply saddened and wishing it could actually answer you when you talk to it, then you’re in the wrong brand of semi-autonomous robot vacuum devices. And if that last sentence sounded like complete insanity to you, then brace yourself, because I meant it. [...]

If you’re a fan, as I am, of the comic series Transmetropolitan, you’re already familiar with the story of the quicktanks, machines geared toward building, from the ground up, a human body. The description of building an eye is particularly pointed: “…the quicktank is given a job most of us [...]

In the course of writing about home theater hardware and home audio gear and all those other great gadgets, I’ve seen a lot of nifty things. I’ve seen a lot of disturbing things. And I’ve seen some things that baffle me so deeply that I can’t for the life of [...]

I think we were all pretty stunned when our own Chris Smith brought word about the G-Form case that survived a drop from 100,000 feet up to Earth below and still managed to keep the iPhone contained within safe. And then seeing the iPhone case G-Form brought out was even [...]

I’ve seen a lot of bizarre devices in my tenure here. I’ve seen things that probably shouldn’t exist. But even I’m hard pressed to think of anything more purely weird than the Philips ErgoSensor monitor, the only monitor I’ve ever seen to come with nagging as a standard feature.

While we often talk about software updates for things like smartphones, tablets and computers — it looks like the time has come for other products to begin sharing some of that spotlight. That being said, the latest is the Nest Thermostat, which was originally released about five months ago.