SlashGear has a double dose of first looks at some new home automation devices–a WiFi video doorbell, and an interactive, voice controlled thermostat. The beauty of the timing is the companies couldn’t be more different: Honeywell is a behemoth, and DoorBot got their financial backing from crowdsourcing. In practice, if you’re expecting Siri levels of interaction you may be disappointed. […]
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While I’m reintroducing myself to a digital home, allow myself to introduce… myself. I can trace the tech in me back to my childhood – I now understand why my parents gave me Legos, Lincoln Logs, Tinkertoys, Shape-O Toy, and Rubik’s Cube (I guess it could have been worse, and I’m thankful, at least my parents loved me enough to […]
Read moreAs you know from our review of the D54250WYK Haswell NUC, while there are SATA & SATA power connectors on the board there isn’t any space in the chassis to use them. Intel has been hard at work on a chassis to address this, and I just got word that the target (read not 100% firm) release date is […]
Read moreI’ve spent the past few years under a (digital) rock with limited space and opportunity to develop, create and maintain a digital home ecosystem. I’ve focused more on my trade than my entertainment, and now it shows as I’m reintroducing myself to the ideas and concepts of a digital home. Many of you don’t know me, so here’s a brief […]
Read moreInteresting and big win for Netflix in the UK, and it makes great sense if you’re them. And honestly, if you’re an MSO, it makes sense for them too. Why try to build up a lower quality competitor that probably doesn’t have much value, when you can just charge Netflix a royalty for doing all the hard work anyways? But […]
Read moreSeems like networks are more quick to respond to ratings this season than ever before. Apparantly some shows getting cut in as fast as two episodes. Ouch! I’m on board with most of the new popular ones–Blacklist and Sleepy Hollow. I’ve had Brooklyn Nine Nine on my DVR for weeks, just can’t be bored enough to try to watch it […]
Read moreI’m not all that surprised by this data, but being a loyal plasma fan I am saddened by it. I love my plasma and it’s been rock solid, but apparently most folks looking for TV’s today aren’t looking that way. My dad is one of them, he’s in the market for a new 55″, and I can’t talk him out […]
Read moreI have no idea what to make of this since there’s no price associated, but my guess it’s going to be quite a bit more than Chromecast, but it also has a whopping 1TB of data–ONE. I must be missing something as far as how practical this is, and there’s no screenshots of the UI. Would love to test one […]
Read moreASRock has been around for a while and always load their motherboards with tons of features at a very affordable price. This Z87 based motherboard is a bit different as it’s on the higher priced spectrum, but these guys seem to like it. With that said, today we’ll be reviewing out the ASRock Z87E-ITX motherboard, which as you may expect […]
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When you cannot install Ethernet throughout your house there are a few options available, but none tantalize the same way as 802.11AC’s promise of Gigabit-esque bandwidth with ease of wireless installation. Admittedly the recent trend in marketing routers by summing their potential speed is a bit confusing, but given the chance to redefine the home networking landscape we can forgive […]
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