Household Tech on TFTS - Page 5

Have you been looking for a new way to creep out your significant other? Are you a perpetual nagger that loves to rely on new technology to get the job done? Well, the folks that created the Digital Video Memo just might be your best friends. Now you can take …

Digital photo frames should really do only a couple of things and do them well, right? They should display your digital images in a decent resolution and give you some pretty easy options when it comes to how you can transfer your images (or even videos, for that matter) from …

With energy costs high enough to give you a coronary every time you get the electric bill, it’s no wonder that manufacturers are trying to take advantage. It’s definitely a lot cheaper to heat only the room you are using rather than trying to heat the entire house, right? So …

Keeping tabs on your pets, especially dogs, can be a nerve-wracking experience. This is especially true for those of us that live on large lots where you often let your dogs run free. But I guess this can be just as much of a pain for city dwellers whose pets …

Air quality is something most of us take for granted. Yet it’s pretty frightening when you actually stop to think about all of the things that can make you sick in your immediate atmosphere, especially when you’re indoors. The latest product from Electrolux eradicates odors in your house while capturing …

It didn’t use to make much difference to most people whether or not they had an Ethernet port by their entertainment center. After all, why would they possibly want to hook up their TV or cable box to the Internet? Well, as most of us know, times have certainly changed …

It’s been quite awhile since I have had to deal with the jet lag caused by traveling across multiple time zones, but not long enough that I don’t remember it vividly. Trying to figure out the alarm clocks in your hotel room is hard enough when you’re wits are about …

If you’re anything like me, you can’t get enough of devices that remind you how out of shape and fat you are. Nothing is better for the self esteem than having some digital device tell you that you have no hope of making it past 50 unless you start exercising …

Water purification is big business. There are filters for your faucets, filters for your fridge, and filters for your portable water bottles. Oh yeah, and all of those bottled water manufacturers are out there touting their reverse osmosis ultra-clean technologies that remove everything from water except the hydrogen and oxygen …

Are you worried about falling asleep and being burned alive by a house fire because you failed to hear your fire alarms? I know I am and so are the product managers over at Frontgate (supposedly “Outfitting America’s Finest Homes”). One of their latest product introductions, the Bedside Fire Alarm …

I’m all for multi-tasking, but even I believe that there’s a point where multi-tasking stops being productive and starts being downright dangerous. For example, driving your car while texting – dangerous. Reading the Newspaper while walking down a crowded street – dangerous. Checking the weather forecast while shaving – dangerous. …