Stewart Wolpin

Review: ADT Home Security Starter Kit is a good start – if you add ADT monitoring

Posted on 6 March 2018 by Stewart Wolpin

The purpose of a home security system is to ease concerns about the safety of your castle and the people it houses. With a standard ADT system, the company installs your system – sensors, motion sensors, keypads, etc. – and all you have to do is arm and disarm the system as necessary. You then just live your life with an added bit of confidence that you and yours are protected.

ADT’s Home Security Starter Kit ($399), powered by Samsung’s SmartThings smart home platform, is less extensive and less pricey than an installed system since it is a DIY security system.

Read the rest of this review on GearBrain here.

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Selfie Journals & Viper Drones: Tech Toys Grow Up To Keep Up

Posted on 21 February 2018 by Stewart Wolpin

Welcome to the future, where kids aren’t happy with toys that just … well, sit there. Now playthings must move on the ground and through the air and even speak of their own or user-programmed accord.

This year’s Toy Fair at the New York Javits Center was filled with increasingly sophisticated — and often animated — digital doodads, some of which merely entertain, some that teach children how to survive and even thrive in our increasingly technological world, or some that just scare the cat.

Read the rest of this post here.

Posted in ear/headphones, smart home, TWICE, VR/AR | Tagged Alexa, Amazon, Drones, Hasbro, Mattel, Toy Fair | Leave a comment

Thinking of Buying an Apple HomePod? Don’t.

Posted on 20 February 2018 by Stewart Wolpin

Consider buying an Apple HomePod more of an investment bet than a practical purchase because, right now, it’s a pretty useless device. Like most gaudy objects, HomePod’s aural and aesthetic beauty blinds you of its practical near-worthlessness in comparison to competitors imbued with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.

Read the rest of this review on GearBrain here.

Posted in Apple, cell/smartphones, Gear Brain, music players/speakers, smart home | Tagged Alexa, Amazon, Apple, Google Home, HomePod, Sonos One | Leave a comment

Toy Fair 2018: ‘Alexa, Play With Me’

Posted on 20 February 2018 by Stewart Wolpin

Like a puppy trailing a child, the toy industry often trails after the consumer electronics industry in integrating advanced technology into playthings. But at this year’s Toy Fair, Amazon Alexa voice-recognition, AR and VR, STEM/STEAM-oriented educational gear, 3D printing and AI/coding were particularly prominent.

Read the rest of this post here.

Posted in cell/smartphones, smart home, TWICE, VR/AR | Tagged AI, Alexa, Amazon, AR, VR | Leave a comment

Review of the Apple HomePod

Posted on 19 February 2018 by Stewart Wolpin

Is it the best-sounding and most beautiful smart speaker extant with a lot of potential or an overpriced smart speaker with limited functionality? The ‘net has been bubbling over with one or the other of these wildly divergent assessments of Apple’s new Siri- and HomeKit-compatible HomePod speaker. In our review, we definitely lean towards the latter.

Read the rest of this review on Techlicious here.

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Posted in Apple, cell/smartphones, music players/speakers, smart home, Techlicious | Tagged Android, Apple, HomeKit, HomePod, iOS, iPhone X, Siri, Sonos, Sonos One | Leave a comment

I Saw the Integrated Future at CES

Posted on 29 January 2018 by Stewart Wolpin

CES is traditionally a wonderland of new devices and new technologies, some frivolous and some functional, some ready-for-prime-time and some preparing for a hopeful or eventual future.

Also, traditionally, most of these new devices and technologies exist by-and-large in siloes, distinct product categories or distinct applications designed to work, perhaps, tangentially, complementary or supplementary with other existing or new devices and technologies.

This year’s CES felt different to me. Continue reading here to see how.

Posted in cell/smartphones, CES, Digital Tech Consulting, smart home | Tagged 5G, AI, AR, autonomous cars, smart home | Leave a comment

Top 10 Gadgets From CES

Posted on 17 January 2018 by Stewart Wolpin

A list of the gadgets I found at CES that are more practical than future fanciful, more useless than cool, that’d I’d actually buy; from the Huffington Post, which you can read here.