Household Tech on TFTS - Page 5

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. …

Everyone is busy and it seems like there are never enough hours in the day to get things done. And if the challenge of actually completing your tasks wasn’t enough we have to actually remember when everything needs to get done. If the old fashioned way of writing your appointments …

Getting my ass out of bed in the morning is hard enough without being startled by the annoying ear-piercing electronic beeping of the alarm clock. You would think that the people that make these things would come up with a sound that is a little less grating on the nerves. …

Sonos, creator of multi-room music systems, has just announced that it has launched the new Sonos CR200, a state of the art music controller for the home. The new full-color Sonos Controller, which just received its long-awaited FCC approval this month, features an ultra-responsive touch screen display that should make …

Weight loss and fitness is big business. Consumers spend billions every year in an effort to lose weight and get healthier and high-tech device manufacturers are not about to be left behind. The latest product innovation from Withings, the Wi-Fi scale, allows you to connect directly to the internet to …