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Category Archives: smart home
A/V In ’18: 5 Foundational Changes & 11 Newsmakers
Traditionally, A/V product categories don’t tend to be very newsworthy outside of the latest updated versions of existing products and technologies. But 2018 unusually saw five major foundational changes in audio and video. See the rest of this 2019 recap … Continue reading
Posted in headphones, IFA, music players/speakers, smart home, Tech History, TV/4K/UHD/8K, TWICE
Tagged 5G, 802.11ax, 8K, A/V, AR, ATSC 3.0, IMAX, IMAX Enhanced, LG, smart speakers, Sony, TCL, true wireless, VR, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi 6
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7 Companies That Owned The Smart Home Conversation In 2018
Two trends dominated the smart home category in 2018. On the product side, there is the growing battle for voice assistant ecosystem supremacy between Amazon and Google. Not only has there been hockey-stick growth in the number, as well as unit sales, … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, music players/speakers, smart home, TWICE
Tagged Amazon, Belkin, Control 4, Facebook, Lenovo, Ring, Sonos
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Bad Wi-Fi? How To Choose Between an Extender and Mesh
Most of us are, at one time or another, likely unhappy with our home Wi-Fi. Netflix buffers too often. Skype or FaceTime connections are blurry, and an online game stalls as a roommate streams video. Wi-Fi reception is great in … Continue reading
Posted in Gear Brain, smart home
Tagged eero, Lynksys, Netgear, Netgear Orbi, Ookla, Orbi, Speedtest.net, TP-Link, Velop, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi extender, Wi-Fi mesh
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Review: Riva Concert Takes On Sonos One
In the world of $200 Alexa-enabled smart speakers, everyone is competing with the acknowledged audio quality and multi-room king of this category, the Sonos One. The latest – and perhaps most worthy – contender is the new Riva Audio Concert ($199, due … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Gear Brain, music players/speakers, smart home
Tagged Bluetooth, Bluetooth speakers, Riva, smart speakers, Sonos, Sonos One
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Review: Netgear Orbi Voice combines a router with a smart speaker
Merging two different devices into a single product is not usually a good idea. If something goes wrong with one — the entire item is useless. That’s something Netgear has avoided with the Orbi Voice, an Amazon Alexa-enabled smart speaker that … Continue reading
Posted in Gear Brain, music players/speakers, smart home
Tagged Netgear, Orbi, Orbi Voice, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi mesh
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Nixplay Seed Review: A smart digital photo frame that’s quirky but effective
Nixplay is trying to boost the dumb digital photo frame by introducing a degree of intelligence and versatility into its offerings. The most intriguing are its Seed Wi-Fi Amazon Alexa-enabled models, which come in rectangular 8- and 10-inch editions ($139.99 … Continue reading
Posted in Gear Brain, smart home
Tagged Alexa, Amazon, digital cameras, digital photo frames, Nixplay
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13 Products We Want from IFA 2018
My favorite products from this year’s IFA show in Berlin, which you can read here on Techlicious.
Posted in Apple, cell/smartphones, headphones, IFA, music players/speakers, smart home, TV/4K/UHD/8K
Tagged Alexa, Amazon, appliances, Bluetooth, digital camera, Google Assistant, IFA, Kuerig, laptops, LG, Marshall, Polaroid, robots, Sony, TCL, VR, Wi-Fi, yogurt
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Top Products At IFA 2018
A roundup of top products from IFA for TWICE.com, which you can read here.
Posted in cell/smartphones, headphones, IFA, music players/speakers, smart home, TV/4K/UHD/8K, TWICE, VR/AR
Tagged 8K, Acer, appliances, Bluetooth, digital cameras, dishwasher, earbuds, IFA, Keurig, laptops, LG, Marshall, OLED, Philips, Polaroid, refrigerators, robots, Sony, TCL, Wi-Fi, yogurt
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The Next Wireless Revolution Is Coming (No, Not 5G)
Replacing wired connections with wireless ones is not a new idea. It dates back to the discovery of radio waves by Heinrich Hertz in 1888, and was first made practical by Guglielmo Marconi when he enabled telegraph signals to be … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Technology Consulting, smart home
Tagged air power, Energous, Qi, Wi-Charge, wireless charging
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