by dbadmin | May 1, 2022 | Apple, Features, Opinions, smart displays, Smart Home
Credit: Apple Opinion post byRoger Fingas If you haven’t heard, Apple is strongly rumored to be getting into smart displays, a field so far dominated by Amazon and Google with products like the Echo Show 8 and the Nest Hub. Assuming a product ships by the end of 2022,...
by dbadmin | Apr 30, 2022 | Features, Philips Hue, Smart Home
Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority I’ve experimented with a variety of remote work arrangements over the last decade. From a bedroom setup to a couch or a dining table, I’ve done it all. But when I recently started rebuilding my home office, I knew good...
by dbadmin | Apr 29, 2022 | Ecovacs, Reviews, robot vacuum, Smart Home
The dream of robot vacuums (and mops) has always been a product that cleans a whole floor with minimal maintenance. Many cleaning robots do enough but still fall short of the ideal. The Ecovacs Deebot X1 Omni is part of a new generation of products that promise to get...
by dbadmin | Apr 17, 2022 | Features, Reviews, Smart Home
Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority I’m a self-professed nerd. And like any self-respecting nerd, I love lasers. Lightsabers, Captain Kirk’s phaser, and of course, the light cycles in Tron, what’s not to like about them? But while all those examples are...
by dbadmin | Apr 15, 2022 | Google, News, Smart Home
Google’s Little Signals experiment imagines a variety of weird ways to notify users. These methods include blowing air, casting shadows, and more. Notifications usually arrive on our devices in the form of a chime, vibration, or LED flash (aside from the standard...
by dbadmin | Apr 14, 2022 | Apple iPad, Apple iPhone, How To, SIRI, Smart Home
While people tend to think of Siri as a voice assistant first and foremost, it’s actually present in a subtler way throughout Apple platforms, in the form of suggestions for apps, actions, searches, and more. Here’s how to turn off Siri suggestions entirely or just...
