Hungarian design brand Sekhina has made a series of light switches and plug sockets from concrete as an aesthetically pleasing alternative to plastic. Billed as the first of their kind, Sekhina ...

Smart homes get smarter when they manage additional electrical and electronic devices. The easiest way to connect your home’s lights, lamps, and small appliances is with smart plugs and smart switches ...

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We’ve already seen some interesting new HomeKit accessories out of CES 2016 including the first Siri-controlled ceiling fans, and now iDevices is expanding its current lineup of HomeKit-compatible ...

When it comes to starting a smart home , lighting is one of the simplest ways to get going. You might assume that starts with a smart light bulb, but there are other ways to add smarts to your ...

Smart light switches and plug adapters are the building blocks of the connected home. But it can be tough to tell the difference between various devices. That's where we come in. Not only have we used ...

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They might not grab the headlines like some other bits of smart home kit, but smart plugs are wonderful little devices, letting you add some remote app control to any dumb device that plugs into a ...

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A group of students who came up with an electrically conductive paint for an art project using research from Wikipedia are seeing their product take off around the the world. Four years ago the Royal ...