The iPhone X Review – Face the Future
It’s been a decade since the original iPhone was released. My own 2007 vintage handset has seen better days, but it’s still going strong. So 10 years…
It’s been a decade since the original iPhone was released. My own 2007 vintage handset has seen better days, but it’s still going strong. So 10 years…
Designing your own home is always exciting and it’s even more so now with the rise of smart technologies. However, creating your smart home won’t…
As we mentioned in Part 2, the Automated Home’s base line energy consumption is terrible. There’s no point creating all this energy and then throwing it…
If you’re a regular Automated Home reader you’ll have noticed a few electric car stories creeping in over the last couple of years along with…
We all know the story, you need to be able to measure something before you can set about implementing changes. It’s no different for your home’s power…
We visited the smanos stand at last months Gadget Show Live. The Netherlands based company have been producing security systems for a while now and have recently added…
Originally crowd funded (and raising 874% of its goal), Smart Shades is a clever little Bluetooth blind controller. The motor unit attaches to the cord of…
Last year Tesla announced the Powerwall, a smart home battery mainly aimed at storing the energy from your renewables to use when the sun isn’t…
We got our hands on the new Fibaro Swipe for the first time at the Gadget Show Live last weekend. The device looks like a…
Here’s a couple of quick videos from last weekends Gadget Show Live in the NEC, Birmingham David McClelland and John Mason present “Live Smarter, Cooler, Better”…
Wow, headphones, where do I start. I seem to have some weird fixation with them and I own quite a few pairs. I have my…
We’re just back from a trip to New York and it’s a great chance to document and share all the kit that we bring with us when…
After todays event we know more about the Apple Watch (check out our cheat sheet below for all the new stuff from the presentation just finished)….
Sometimes the tech world can seem like a private mens club. Thankfully that’s changing with each year that passes and our latest ‘My Automated Home’ feature…
I’m starting to think I might have a problem. My interest in external batteries may be turning into a fetish, but these energy stores are important…
The LightwaveRF system from JSJS Designs offers a wide variety of good looking, affordable home automation modules that can easily be retro fitted in any…
My (still glorious) Retina MacBook Pro is 15 months old and its relatively small 256GB SSD has accumulated the usual cruft. Time for a clear out….
Oh how we love the shiny new home automation gadgets that appear on an almost weekly basis from the crowd funding websites. This time it’s…
We all have gadgets that seemingly need endless charging and the nature of our favourite mobile devices means that they are often away from a…
Yes yes, I know you’ve heard it a million times before but we love Plex! One of the best new features over recent months, PlexSync…