Google Home Speaker reviewed: a difficult conversation
A small size and support for Gemini makes the Google Home Speaker look clever on paper. But that’s before you see the price or try talking to it.
Tag: smart home
Ring connects a unit intercom for deliveries
The latest addition in the Ring line-up is focused almost entirely on anyone living in an apartment, and turns your shared intercom at the door into a Ring-compatible doorbell.
Samsung set for a smarter fridge with AI inside
Cameras inside your ice box were just the beginning, with the next generation using AI to track your food and transfer recipes in your home.
Amazon adds more oomph to the Echo Dot, Studio
Amazon’s compact Dot speaker is getting an upgrade, while its big Studio speaker is being resized and reshaped.
Samsung set for more AI in the home and laundry
AI is coming to more places in the home, jumping beyond the phone to the laundry, TV, and even your computer monitor.
Amazon set to expand Alexa with conversational AI in Alexa+
Everything ever so slightly better has a plus sign, and that appears true of the next version of Amazon’s voice assistant, too.
Screens everywhere as Samsung appliances get AI onboard
Your fridge probably doesn’t have a touchscreen, and neither does your washing machine, dryer, or oven. And yet this year, AI is giving them all a reason to have one.
Amazon’s upgraded Echo Show 15 is a little update to a big display
The big screen Echo smart display gets an update as it moves beyond wall mounting to desks and counters, too.
Google kills the Chromecast, replaces with the TV Streamer
Not quite a Chromecast and closer to the Apple TV, Google’s latest gadget is about home entertainment and the smart home.
Nanoleaf looks up with Skylight LED panels for the home
You can decorate your computer, behind a TV and screen, and your walls with colourful LEDs. And later this year, you can emulate a skylight, too.
