Enio Energy Management are a new start-up company, working on ways to help reduce our power consumption.  We interviewed Enio Co-Founder, Nick Franklin, on how the company came about, what the service offers and where it's headed in the future.  Plus we have passes directly onto the Enio private alpha for 20 Automated Home readers - read on and check out the special link below....

A wierd and wonderful lamp and TV combo that's sure to keep some SWMBO's happy.  The lamp and shade houses an LCD TV (up to 23") and when the TV is not in use the shade can be raised to cover and hide the flat screen. Designed by Denis Santachiara for Roche Bobois...

Savant are building a reputation with their ROSIE system which offers control, automation and entertainment around the home.  A company building home automation products on the Apple platform, it's no big surprise they (like many others) have already lept on the iPad to utilise its smart home potential.  They've just released two new iPad docks, one a desktop unit, the other for mounting the tablet on the wall.  Full details in the PR after the jump...

Intwine Energy have launched their new IECT-220 Wi-Fi communicating thermostat.  The unit comes with a free basic monitoring service for control through the Web with a premium service with more features available for $15 per year...

Steve Jobs took to the stage a short time ago at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.  While much of the fourth generation iPhones secrets were already known through a controversial Gizmodo expose, we didn't have the details until now.  So here's the confirmation of the specs along with some surprises too - check out our iPhone v4 cheat sheet for everything you need to know down the pub tonight...

Here's a useful little device for your smart home set-up.  An Ethernet bridge that allows you to connect your USB devices at any remote location on your LAN.  The interface has 2 x USB 2.0 ports and a gigabit Ethernet socket.  It's compatible with Windows and Mac and allows you to connect up to 15 devices (using a hub) and can be managed and configured using its browser interface.  Its perfect if you are using USB based I/O interface or sensors and would be especially useful if you are running your home automation server on a virtual machine.  the Silex SX-3000GB is around £100, checkout the video after the jump...

We love our Sonos S5. Its neat size and incredible sound are a big hit in the Automated Home. We've just heard from our friends over ar AVJungle that the £349 S5 unit is also now available in Black (as well as the off white of the original unit)...

We've been contacted by Automated Home reader (Mr Flibble) on his interesting step-by-step guide on building a custom iPad web app for the X10 CM15 Pro on Mac OSX.  Even more interestingly he plans to release an open source version soon....

UPDATED - New Images Added.  AlertMe have announced a raft of new new home energy management products and services.  Perhaps most interestingly a new Energy Starter Kit including a previously un-seen Colour Display unit at £49.99 (whilst reducing the price of the kit without the display to just £29.99).  In addition the mobile optimised website is being augmented with a 'proper' iPhone app too.  Read on for the full PR...

Ah, the smell of an Apple rumour in the morning.  Engadget is reporting that the famous Cupertino 'hobby' - the Apple TV - is to be reinvented using iPhone OS with full 1080p HD capablities.  The new hardware is purportedly aimed and sucking content off the cloud - we're hoping that includes stuff outside of the iTunes ecosystem - BBC iPayer, (Hulu in the US) etc and local streaming too.  The device is said to have only 16GB of local flash storage rather than a Hard drive, but this is exactly the sort of hardware that most of us crave.  Best of all the reportedly tiny size of the device is matched by a similarly diminutive price - $99!  All sounds to good to be true?  Let us know what you think in the comments...