Household Tech Category - Page 13

Panasonic unveils a curios new combo device, a digital photo frame that can also double as an iPhone dock. This means that the Panasonic MW-20 not only displays your photos, it can even render some music or play back videos which you have stored on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Back in August we reported on rumors that Toshiba were working on 3DTVs that would offer 3D without the need for (silly) glasses and, though we were somewhat sceptical it now transpires that the rumor we offered a heads up regarding was spot on what with Toshiba now being set [...]

If you like the thought of a robot that will roll nonchalantly around your house sweeping up in its wake, then no doubt you’ve considered a Roomba. Though after many have found themselves disappointed with its performance (I once heard it described as “like a blind drunk”), there’s some word [...]

We don’t think about power strips very often, but considering these are the things that make our devices run (or at the very least recharge them) we probably should spare them a thought a little more often. So today, we’ve got the HiSaver Power Strip to have a look at.

Checking your blood sugar? There’s an app for that. Sometimes it unsettles me, considering the sheer number of things for which “there’s an app for that” applies. But the folks at Sanovi-Aventis have done it, and with a little plugging in via the Dock Connector, your iPhone can take blood [...]

If you’re familiar with home automation, you’ll know that it basically allows you to do all sorts of exciting stuff from your phone when you’re away from home. And an internal video shows a Samsung Cetus i917 doing some of these truly impressive things.

If you live in an area that gets seriously staticy in winter (like, for instance, most of the upper Midwest; it’s always a smart move to touch the wall before turning on a lamp from November until about April) then you know and love the humidifier. But they’re power hogs, [...]

Projectors are great, especially when you can attach something like “biggest” or “brightest” on to the narrative somewhere. But “smallest” definitely works, and the upcoming projector from Lemoptix may well be one of the smallest ever seen.

Half of this point is an amazing, dizzying hope for the future, where diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are wiped out by a small thing you wear on your head, possibly inside a hat. And the other half is an Orwellian nightmare unlike anything man has ever seen. What could [...]

Motorola has been known to come up with devices to complement their line of cable television set-top boxes and this time they out the NYXboard QWERTY remote.