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 Archerfish. …
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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 – very simple, very effective. …
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 that will change the atmosphere of your rooms.
Now, this has been altered into an iPhone app so you can take a snap of your room and play around with a simple slider to try and alter the mood of the room, taking it through Cozy, Creative, Intimate or purely Relaxing. …
GE MoodCam App Helps You Improve Your House For FreeRead More »
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 for people coming to your front door then a car driving past or up your driveway won’t activate the surveillance. Archerfish can tell the difference between the general different types of motion.
When the specified motion has been detected then Archerfish will notify you by your smartphone as to what’s happening. You can then log in to the portal and watch the video direct from your smartphone – neat! …
Archerfish Solo State-of-the-Art Motion Detection Surveillance CameraRead More »
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 chance to get some accurate data with its deluxe weather station. …
Honeywell TE923W Deluxe Weather Station for Serious Weather GeeksRead More »
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 help you realize what you spend money on the most and how you can cut back.
The money you will save by using one of these properly will cover the cost of the device many times over during its lifetime.
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BlueLine’s $100 PowerCost Monitor and Energy Meter Saves You Money and ElectricityRead More »
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 Station (model LPG3E), which as the name suggests is geared to plugging in chargers. As we’re suckers for green, eco-conscious, power-saving gadgets, we had to accept.
I took this unit for a spin and found a lot to like.
There is some minor setup that involves calibrating the device based on the chargers that you have plugged in, but that took less than 5 minutes.
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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 need to do is switch on the device and drop the NorthStar in the room and it’ll get straight to work. …
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 automatic and programmable timer that can be slipped on over your existing wall switches and be used to control them without having to do any messy and invasive work to your walls. You can therefore use this piece of hardware to control anything with a switch from your lights to your fan. …
Practical and useful gadget to insure that you’ll have a backup plan should your battery die in your motorcycle, snowmobile, ATV, etc. This Sunforce solar powered 12V charger prevents discharge or overcharge of your battery.
Weighs only 1.6lbs and measures 19.5″ x 5 7/8″ x 1.5″, it comes with battery clamps, wiring and O-ring conectors and fuse.
Buy now!
Price: $22.98
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
