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Should Smart Speakers Be Better After 10 Years?
Smart speakers are now a staple in many homes. Amazon and Google models are particularly user-friendly, but selecting the right speaker depends on your priorities - whether that's sound quality, smart home integration, or added features like a touchscreen. Despite their widespread adoption, many users feel that smart speakers haven't become significantly "smarter" over the years. While useful, these assistants have yet to achieve the proactive intelligence originally promised, leading some to wonder if the technology has reached a developmental plateau.
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xBloom Studio Coffee Machine
Take Your Smart Home to Infinity and Beyond
Take Your Smart Home to Infinity and Beyond
The new xBloom Studio Coffee Machine combines the grinder, brewer, and scale into one sleek design. This device caters to all levels of coffee drinkers, providing fully automated, semi-guided, and fully manual brewing experiences. You can set your brew preferences on either the xBloom app or the device's compact LED matrix display. It's the ultimate home-brewer for coffee drinkers dedicated to consistency and precision.
Take Your Smart Home to Infinity and Beyond
Take Your Smart Home to Infinity and Beyond
Take Your Smart Home to Infinity and Beyond
Pixar and Robosen have teamed up for a fully articulated robotic action figure with incredibly smooth movements and sounds. Standing 14.6 inches tall, owners can converse with Buzz using a few pre-selected statements, make Buzz move using preconfigured poses with an app, and program their own poses and movements with an upcoming desktop app. This Buzz Lightyear figure is up for preorder in November 2024.
Lymow One Robotic Lawnmower
Take Your Smart Home to Infinity and Beyond
Lymow One Robotic Lawnmower
The Lymow One is a tracked, fully autonomous robotic mower. The tracks give the One the ability to crawl over obstacles and climb 45-degree grades. The One uses GPS-RTK to define the mow area, requiring setting up a base station to get mowing. The dual blades have a width of 405mm with a height adjustable between 30 and 100mm. The Lymon One is currently funded on Kickstarter.