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The "Current State" concept from The Greener Grass is an idea for monitoring and controlling power usage round the home - "Current State is a real-time energy use monitoring system and timer for powered devices combined into one. The Current State system is made up of two parts, a mobile application for you cell phone, which allows you to control and monitor electricity use from anywhere, and a series of Plug-Ends that give you control over the products around your house...

Do you NEED to be able to connect to the net always?  Do you feel funny when you aren’t near a wi-fi hotspot?  Are you outside the range of traditional ADSL and cable but have 3G cellular cover? Does your home or office need a backup broadband service for those frustrating outages?  If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions then the new Vodafone USB Stick 3G Modem may be for you.  Read on for our video, photos and full review of this mini marvel…

As we've said many times before, our favourite Media Player by far is XBMC (XBox Media Center). The problem is now thought that the software has outgrown the hardware.  Although the xbox can do an analog HD 720 componant output, people really want 1080 and "proper" DVI/HDMI HiDef output. So, what's going to replace XBMC at Automated Home Towers?  Well, it may just be XBMC, OS X...

Savant, makers of the linix based home automation system, have announced the release of their new Mac based platform.  This allows developers to create control systems based on Apple products, including the iPhone and iPod Touch...

Recently at Automated Home towers, we got a new 24" iMac for the kitchen.  When it arrived we added the wonderful EyeTV 250 Plus USB analogue and DVB TV tuner box and we were able to take out the huge old CRT telly we had in there.  Elgato have just released v3 of the EyeTV software with a new UI and lots of new features.  DigMo have just published their review of the software...