Category: Gadgets

After a 2-year head start, Amazon’s Echo product finally has the deployed competitors of its rivals vying to make their way into our homes: the Google Home (last year) and the Apple HomePod (just a few months ago).  Despite the fact that Siri, invented by Apple, kickstarted the voice-activated assistant craze, it is Amazon’s first […]

The experts often have a hard time agreeing on anything. Be it the economy or who should have won an Oscar, there’s always contradiction in our fast-news society.  The impact of our generation’s rampant development of technology is no different. According to commentators, the geniuses tinkering away with their machines in Silicon Valley are either going […]

It was in 2014 that Apple and Google came out with smart watches, even though it was a kickstarter project called Pebble that had led the way 2 years before.  You may have seen some friends and colleagues sporting them, and even traditional watch manufacturers like Tag Hauer have their own versions now.  The question […]

Around this time one year ago we gave you some of the key design points that were anticipated in the (then) new iPhone 7.  We happened to be right about those points, not because we had some secret spies in China at Apple’s factories, but because so many people carefully watch this company and there […]

Not everyone uses an Apple iPhone, but as new versions of it release, we get a better sense of the new priorities of smartphone users.  With the release of the newest iteration of its core product just a few weeks away (sometime in September 2016), we thought we might give our readers a heads-up on what Apple is […]

In the last five years home automation has grown into a multi-billion dollar market. Due to its proliferation, home automation can be defined in several ways. In this case we are categorizing it as the residential extension of building automation. It may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security […]