Amazon Officially Launches Alexa for Business
Amazon wants to further its reach in the smart tech space by expanding the smart homes into smart businesses. This is no surprise, as it was rumored and covered as up-and-coming news for the...
Can Smart Technology Help Save Our Environment?
There’s a lot of chatter about smart home technology, and whether or not it is good for us, for our kids, for our pets, for our brain development, for our future…but what about our...
Google Serves Up a Dish of Smart Home Competition for Amazon
The smart home wars continue, with Google making the latest move.
Amazon and Google are in a perpetual battle to be Master of the Smart Home. Many would say that Amazon has the upper hand,...
Artificial Intelligence and the Revolution of Homes
Artificial intelligence (AI) has seen mass adoption over the last four years, and has vastly disrupted the home. We’ve seen the social acceptance of placing “always on” devices in our homes, and we’ve connected...
Amazon Expands Hands-Free Calling & Messaging to Fire Tablets
It just got even harder to avoid your friends and family.
Amazon has added their suite of Fire tablets to the list of devices that are compatible with its hands-free Alexa Calling and Messaging feature....
Is Wearable Technology About to Go Too Far?
Amazon. We need to talk.
It was revealed that Amazon was granted two patents to make a wrist device that would track warehouse workers and send them performance guidance and feedback through haptic signals (such...
Smart Home Speaker Wars: Amazon vs. Google vs. Apple
Three big names in technology – Amazon, Google, and Apple – now officially have smart home speakers available to purchase. Each speaker, at its core, has the same basic end goal: become a fully...
5 Types Of Smart Home Users
Smart home automation attracts all kinds of users. Here are the five types of smart home users that I have come across:
The Bandwagoner
The first type of smart home user is The Bandwagoner. These...
Digital Assistants Set Sights on Gadget Domination
What is artificial intelligence (AI) going to do this year? The same thing it does every year, or course: try to take over your gadgets.
Much like the classic, beloved, ginger-haired Disney mermaid, smart assistants...
Is It Time to Get Smarter About Our Bathrooms?
While the thought of a smart toilet might seem like an overindulgence for rich people, it can actually have some positive environmental factors that could convince even the most off-the-grid person to give it...