Household Tech Category - Page 14

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.

After seeing both an iPhone and a wheelchair get controlled by thought alone in the last week, it really got me thinking about all the other appliances in my life that could stand a little extra dose of thought control. So with this thought in mind, here are the top [...]

Gamers out there, take note–speaking as a console gamer myself, I know how easy it can get to have all your hardware and games and such get lost in a scattered mess around whatever room you’ve got it in. And the folks out at Level Up want to give you [...]

There was a time, not so long ago, when most of your interaction with your television could be reduced to up and down. Volume up or down, channel up or down, various color levels…you get the picture. But then we started to go side to side, throw in a lot [...]