Category: Home Appliances
Check out this amazing Google Now powered LED coffee table (!)
What’s brilliant about the likes of the Raspberry Pi and Arduino is that it makes hacking together your own gadgets pretty straightforward. Check out the above video showing Mikel Duke’s […]
Could our homes soon be powered by Tesla batteries?
Intriguing rumblings out of Tesla suggests that the company is working on something like a battery pack to power the home. According to Forbes, Elon Musk’s car company could be […]
Is it worth getting a curved TV?
Television began life as a big wooden box in the corner of the room with a convex screen (powered by a cathode ray tube) that brought black-and-white programmes into the […]
Onecue brings gesture-commands to your home entertainment system
A new device is promising to remove the clutter from your coffee table – by replacing your remotes and controllers with gesture commands. The onecue (as it annoyingly stylised – […]
The landline phone’s days appear to be numbered
Do you know the number of your landline phone off by heart? No, neither do I. Yes, I could tell you my mobile number in a second, but the landline? […]
Tado announces second generation of smart thermostat
Smart thermostat Tado – a firm favourite of TechDigest – has announced the second generation of its hardware, adding physical controls and a display to the case. The new box […]
Almost 1bn TV sets will be online by 2020
The world is becoming ever more connected, and it’s not going to slow down any time soon. According to a new report from the company Digital TV Research, the number […]
Britons still prefer to watch television live – on their TVs
As our “second” screens get smaller while our TV screens get larger, it seems that the old adage that “bigger is better” just might hold true. Some new research has […]
Archos launches "Smart Home" system
Archos has become the latest tech company to jump on the "connected home" bandwagon, following the launch of its Smart Home set-up, now available to the masses. It announced the range at this year's CES event, held back in January,…
How Star Trek predicted the future
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was a visionary man. He foresaw a future in which humanity had learned to live together in peace and harmony. A future in which the people of Earth had joined forces with alien races to…
