The SwitchBot Curtain was designed to automate your curtains and, considering the successful Indiegogo campaign, lots of people wanted to have this part of their home ‘smartened up’ as well. Yes, we are dealing with a (somewhat) compact robot that’s connected wirelessly to your phone and it moves the curtains for you. SwitchBot Curtain U-Rail … Read more
The X-Sense XS01-WT can be considered the successor to the XS01-WR that I tested last year and, while at first glance, these two device seem identical, the new smoke detector has received a few upgrades to make it a far more worthy purchase. The XS01-WR was all about being an unobtrusive small puck that you … Read more
The LifeFuels is one of the latest smart water bottles to hit the market and, while it relies on LEDs and the app notifications to let you know when you should be drinking water (just like its main competitors), it still took an unconventional approach to the whole smart water bottle concept, focusing not only … Read more
The Noerden LIZ is a relatively new smart water bottle that hit the market about half a year ago and unlike its, perhaps, more established competitors, the focus wasn’t towards a mobile app and the actual water intake tracking, but on the implementation of an UV-sterilization process, while the hydration reminders are a bit more … Read more
When it was first launched, the Nest Protect smart smoke and CO detector was received with lots of skepticism due to what was deemed an unnecessary amount of features and a very high price tag, but after the improved second generation was released, the people seemed to be more welcoming towards the idea of adding … Read more
The Ambi Climate 2 is the successor to the small KickStarter-backed device that was released around three years ago as a reaction to the traditional air conditioner remote control by offering a less restricting way of controlling the home thermal comfort and relying on the A.I. engine to negate the need of constantly adjusting parameters. … Read more
The second version of the iLintek mesh smart bulbs are designed to use the BLE mesh technology in order to create a large network of devices which can be controlled simultaneously (or individually), therefore easily covering an entire office floor, a parking lot or simply your house and yard with a reliable lighting system. Bluetooth … Read more
The Lumary (iLintek) is a 16.4-feet long smart light strip which besides featuring all the advantages of a regular light strip (such as the large color variety, low profile, high LED density and the use of low-voltage DC power), it can also connect to a dedicated mobile application and to the Alexa or Google Home … Read more
As its name suggests, the Gosund Smart WiFi Light Bulb is an IoT device created to replace the traditional light bulb by adding the ability to customize the colour, the brightness level and create schedules for when the light will be turned On or Off, all that through a mobile application (or using a virtual … Read more
The Ecobee4 and the Nest Learning Thermostat Gen 3 are two of the most popular smart thermostats on the market, each of these devices challenging both the design and the functionality of the traditional plain-looking thermostats. The ‘non-smart’ thermostats had unnecessarily complex configurations and the various functions were generally a mess (the large majority of … Read more