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How the ScreenBeam 1100 Plus Performs as the Ultimate Virtual Meeting Solution

The ScreenBeam 1100 Plus is a small network appliance oriented around wireless presentations, video conferencing, and digital signage with no hardware dongles I’ve been searching for the ultimate virtual meeting hardware technology stack since the beginning of the pandemic. Cameras, microphones, wireless click dongles… you name it,...

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How a Somfy Clever Tilt Motor Can Make Standard Shades ‘Smart’

The Somfy Clever Tilt Motor enables homeowners to motorize their existing 2-inch to 2.5-inch blinds into their smart home. The product comes packaged with seven adapters for connecting the drive motor to a blind’s tilt rod, three sets of adapters for securing the drive motor in a blind’s head rail, and a detailed instruction...

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Upgrading My Wi-Fi 6 Network with eero Pro 6E Mesh

I can’t resist new shiny objects. Even though the Wi-Fi 6 standard just debuted less than 24 months ago, that may as well have been a decade in tech years. The new eero WiFi Pro 6E mesh network is a great example of this new phenomenon of incremental, but nevertheless meaningful, upgrades well before the previous generation’s...

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Smart Home Technology to Help You Get a Better Night of Sleep

Smart home technology can help create a better sleeping environment and a sleep tracker can both be used as a tool to understand how well a person is sleeping Getting a good night’s sleep is important for your overall health. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “Getting enough sleep has many benefits....

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Kaleidescape: Bringing the Premium Movie Server Home for a Demo

When offered the chance to live with a Kaleidescape system for a month, I thought it would be fun to compare the premium Kaleidescape media server/player combo and a more mass-market streaming device like Apple TV. Not being an audiophile or tweaky video guy, maybe I would see the quality differences or maybe I wouldn’t. More than...

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Shelly TRV is Smart Home Technology for Homes Heated with Radiators

The Shelly TRV is a new addition to Allterco’s evolving home automation brand that promises to open up smart home technology to many homeowners whose houses are heated with radiators. Radiators have been used to heat homes since the 1880s and continue to be used in new home construction today. In fact, according to the U.S....

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Vaddio IntelliSHOT Promises Auto-Tracking in Multiple-Participant Videoconferences

Vaddio IntelliSHOT Auto-Tracking Camera Promises Better Tracking of Group Videoconferences I’ve been obsessed with video conferencing cameras ever since the beginning of the pandemic. So much of our communications now take place virtually, and the camera is becoming the lens (forgive the pun) through which we see each other. It...

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Smart Living with the Withings Body Cardio Smart Scale

The Withings Body Cardio Smart Scale is Not Your Ordinary Scale Smart health devices can add real value to a family’s health and overall wellness. But, before discussing the Withings Body Cardio Smart Scale, the technology behind it, and how it helps individuals manage their health, I think it is important to dive into...

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1VALET Helps Make Multi-Dwelling Unit Buildings Smarter

1VALET is a smart building operating system that combines hardware, software, and services to make residential buildings better places to live and work. I recently had a chance to see this new smart multi-dwelling unit (MDU) building technology in action and wanted to share my thoughts. There are many, many articles written...

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