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Comcast XFINITY TV iPad App Released

Comcast XFINITY iPad TV app

Comcast announced an upgrade to the XFINITY iPad app which was released on February 1st. This new (and free) upgrade allows Comcast consumers to watch their favorite On Demand shows and movies right on the Apple iPad. This is in addition to being able to use your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch as a remote [...]

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Logitech Alert offers stylish Web-connected Security Cameras

If you read the article we posted recently about Archerfish’s Security Cameras, you know we weren’t impressed with the price. So here’s an alternative solution that’s a little cheaper and still packed full of features. The classy “Alert” range of security cameras by Logitech will do the job perfectly well and is 25% cheaper than the [...]

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SureFlap – An electronic House Key for your Cat

Worried about other cats getting into your home when you install a cat flap? Now you don’t need to be! SureFlap, based in the UK, has come up with a solution – their cat flap remembers the id of the microchip in your cat and will only open when it recognizes that particular chip – [...]

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GE MoodCam App Helps You Improve Your House For Free

OK budding interior designers, listen up. GE Lighting Style offers an online lighting system tool called GE Mood Lighting Cam (MoodCam for short) that allows you to find the perfect type of lighting to change the mood of your whole house. Simply take some photos, answer 8 questions and it helps you choose the lighting [...]

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Archerfish Solo State-of-the-Art Motion Detection Surveillance Camera

Archerfish is an advanced wireless surveillance system that can be accessed from a variety of devices. All you need to do is set up your Archerfish camera in an area you want to monitor and when it detects any sort of motion it filters it. The filter works like this; if you’re simply looking out [...]

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Honeywell TE923W Deluxe Weather Station for Serious Weather Geeks

Indoor personal weather stations are nothing new, but they never really seem to make any spectacularly accurate conclusions. All you did was run a little wire through your window out to a box on the roof and the receiver would give you some information about the weather. Honeywell offers the serious (or budding) meteorologist a [...]

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BlueLine’s $100 PowerCost Monitor and Energy Meter Saves You Money and Electricity

Some energy companies are offering energy consumption meters to help you work out how much you’re spending on electricity – sounds counter-intuitive doesn’t it? An energy company trying to make you spend less with them… If you’re not lucky enough to get one of these for free, they’re definitely worth the investment. They can quickly [...]

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Review: Bits Limited’ Charging Station automatically shuts off when devices are fully charged

Bits Limited Charging Station LPG3

A few years ago, we featured the SmartStrip LCG3 from Bits Limited, a 10 outlet unit that detects whether or not you have something plugged is on or off and stops drawing power accordingly, thus reducing the ‘vampire load’. Fast-forward to today. Bits Ltd sent us one of their latest products – the 10-outlet Charging [...]

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Roomba’s Got Competition – Introducing Mint

A few years ago we reported on Roomba – a robot for cleaning your floors. Robotics is a fast evolving industry and they’ve now got a very viable competitor to worry about; the Mint. This nifty little device will mop or sweep any hard floors, but generally designed to be used on wood. All you [...]

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AutoChron Offers Smart Home for $30

One of the things I feel is holding back the ‘smart house’ revolution is that (many times) to install all the proper gadgetry you would need to get your house rewired and re-plastered – not a cheap option by all means! AutoChron seems to have come up with a solution to this by offering an [...]

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