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Bemo wants to Kickstart your old phone into a smart thermostat

Instead of chucking away your old iPhone or selling it on eBay, you can give it a new lease of life as a smart thermostat…
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Samsung’s ten times faster tri-band WiFi will supercharge your smart home

Samsung has announced details of its new tri-band WiFi technology which it claims offers speeds up to ten times faster than the current generation of…
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Tado’s second gen smart thermostat touts an LED touchscreen for non-smartphone folk

Tado has unveiled its latest smart thermostat which prominently boasts a new LED touchscreen. Tado is a smart home heating system that lets you control…
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Smart Heating vs Smart Meters: What’s the difference?

With energy prices set to rise by a staggering 60 per cent in the next six years, we’re being pushed to adopt smart energy controls…
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PassivLiving Heat: smart energy control for the self-powered future VIDEO

Smart energy needs to be more than a remote control for your central heating like British Gas Hive, or so says the inventor of PassivLiving…
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Touchy robot butler could tidy up and load your dishwasher after that big party

Is loading the dishwasher just too much like hard work? British scientists have built a robot which can handle your cups and saucers without leaving…
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Devolo and D-Link show off smart home sensors, cameras and plugs

Home networking providers Devolo and D-Link have launched into the smart home monitoring and energy control market at IFA 2014. Known for their routers, WiFi…
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Robot Wars: Dyson’s 360 Eye cleaner is all-seeing, all-knowing

Dyson has announced the 360 Eye, a robotic vacuum cleaner that it claims is more powerful than rivals such as Samsung’s Navibot, the iRobot and…
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What is Samsung Smart Home?

Samsung Smart Home is a forthcoming IoT (Internet of Things) platform that’ll let you control things like lights, heaters, door locks and other appliances with…
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Panasonic’s IFA 2014 spinning spoon and magic make-up mirror give the smart home a smile

Panasonic put some fun into the po-faced tech demos of IFA 2014 with its smart induction hob and a mirror which helps with your make-up….
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Samsung ad gets David Hasselhoff to show off its Smart Home ‘KITT’

Samsung Smart Home promises to turbo charge our relationship with the Internet of Things – but KITT, the talking car from 1980’s sci-fi cop show…
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Apple HomeKit vs Samsung Smart Home

Apple HomeKit and Samsung Smart Home are two competing platforms that aim to put control of your smart home devices in your hand – or…
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IFA 2014: Samsung takes on Apple HomeKit with Samsung Smart Home

Samsung has announced Smart Home, its forthcoming platform for the emerging Internet of Things. Going toe to toe with Apple’s HomeKit, Smart Home promises to…
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IFA 2014: All the 4K Smart TVs and smart home tech we’re expecting to see

With IFA 2014 fast approaching, we’ve taken a quick look of what to expect from the international tech fest in the way of smart TVs. …
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Panic! Hundreds of thousands of routers, cameras and other IoT devices have security holes

Smart home tech has been labelled a security disaster in a huge test which found gaping holes in hundreds of thousands of connected devices. Researchers…
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Royal Institution Christmas lectures will show you how to hack your home

Young engineers will get a lesson in hacking their homes from Britain’s oldest scientific club this Christmas. The Royal Institution’s Christmas lectures on Sparks will…
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Best IFTTT channels for the smart home

If you want to really take control of your smart home appliances, then you need to get to know IFTTT. IFTTT – If This…
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BBC hacks smart home devices but doesn’t name failing brands

The BBC has highlighted more insecure smart home tech but refused to name the brands leaving a back door into your life. The BBC’s report…