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Off-the-shelf smart home products aren’t anything new, but wouldn’t it be great if they could all talk to one another? That’s the premise behind Apple HomeKit, a home automation platform that makes it easier for devices to communicate between one another...

Control your home's lighting using Alexa and these smart bulbs. Amazon offers an affordable way to start building out a voice-activated home automation system for your house or apartment with their Amazon Echo and Echo Dot powered by their A.I. assistant...

Tweet In 2016 we’re closer than ever to living in the home from Back to the Future. OK, Back to the Future was set in 2015 and while we’re not at the stage of hydrating pizzas and video wall windows, we are living in a world where it’s perfectly reasonable...

I worry. About my family. My house. My dumb possessions, and my treasured ones. Doesn’t everyone? “Happiness,” Don Draper opines in Mad Men’s pilot, “is the freedom from fear.” Companies sell people solutions to those fears—even if they are contrived...

Gift someone into home automation this year. Most folks don't realize how much better life is with home automation tech at their fingertips. All the time, even in the comments here, you see folks talk about how silly it is that there's an app to control...