Home Automation

GE Drape-o-Matic

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GE Drape-O-Matic Welcome to the 1950s as the GE Drape-O-Matic is an automatic drape controller featured in the typical 1950s light blue. The product looks brand new and includes the original box with instructions and has been tested to work.

Mount this GE Drape-O-Matic on the wall and the drape string goes into a hole at the top and around a wheel that opens or shuts the drapes.

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Price: $4.99
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Blue Line PowerCost Monitor and Energy Meter II

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Blue Line PowerCost Monitor and Energy Meter II with WiFi Accessory You can start saving on your electricity bill right away with a PowerCost Monitor. No electrician is required as the Monitor is easy to install and includes a large portable display and even WIFI connectivity allowing you to analyze trends on line with your own real time data. You can use the portable monitor to diagnose the details and compare results with others to start reducing your monthly electricity bill.
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Embisys’ iHabitat Home Automation Concept Aims to Connect Everything

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Embedded systems vendor Embisys is working on some technology and associated products for better integrating all of the gadgets and gizmos in your house. This means getting them easily connected to the home network and talking together.

iHabitat self-organizating home automation system

Embisys has nicknamed the home automation system iHabitat (ugh, another ‘i’ name). iHabitat forms a WPAN (wireless personal area network) that organize themselves. Of course, they need to be wirelessly enabled, and that’s where Embisys’ hardware comes in.

Review: Moshi Digital Alarm Clock Radio with Voice-Recognition

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Moshi Voice Control Digital AM and FM Clock RadioIf you’re a regular visitor to Gizmos for Geeks, then you know that we love our alarm clocks. And of course, we had to feature a voice-controlled alarm clock, namely the Moshi.

Well Moshi has a new model out, the Moshi Voice Control Digital Clock Radio, that includes an AM/FM radio, and we had a chance to test it out.
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ChiliPad keeps your bed cool (or warm)

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ChiliPadRemember the Chillow (the chilled pillow)? Take that one step further, and you have the ChiliPad which cools your whole bed. Actually, it regulates the temperature of your bed, but since most folks seem to have more of a problem with the bed being too warm, they went with the ‘chill’ theme.

The ChiliPad is an advanced mattress pad that heats and cools your bed. You can tune the temperature to anywhere between 46 and 118F. Sleep research has shown that you sleep better at temperatures between 60 and 68F.

ChiliPad uses water instead of air, and it flows through the soft coils in the pad that you place on top of your mattress under your sheets.

Oh yes, if you’d like, you can just toss your mattress and get a ChiliBed.

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Price: $397-$1005 (depending on size of pad)
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iTouchless Toilet Flush Handle replaces your manual toilet handle

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iTouchless Toilet Flush HandleWe’ve featured our share of touch-less/touch-free devices over the past, so what’s another right? Actually, this one should have been high on the list – it’s a touch-less toilet tank flush handle.

The iTouchless SF001C Sensor Flush Automatic Tank, yes that’s a mouthful, replaces your toilet tank’s handle with a high-tech proximity sensor and a power motor to actually take care of the downward motion you normally perform on the handle.

The unit comes with all of the equipment you need to retrofit your throne. About the only bad thing is that it requires 4 C batteries, although they’re supposed to last up to 3 years or 23,000 flushes. It’d be nice if it could use rechargeables.

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Price: $67.99
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KeyRingThing Consolidates Your Loyalty Cards into One Card

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KeyRingThing Club CardRemember the “Just One Club Card” website that lets you consolidate all of your loyalty cards into a single card by printing out the barcodes? Well, JOCC has teamed up with another similar site called KeyRingThing that lets you do something similar, but KRT will go one step further and produce a double-sided, full-color, laminated, credit-card sized plastic card for just about $5.

Each card holds up to 6 loyalty programs’ barcodes on it. KeyRingThing also produces print-at-home cards, PDF and PNG versions for your phone with a yearly $9.95 membership. …

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GE announces new LED light bulbs that last 17 years

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GE is continuing to push the technological envelope of light bulbs, announcing their next line of LED bulbs which have an even better eco-footprint than CFLs.

The GE Energy Smart LED bulb is a 40-watt (40w) replacement that will consumer 9 watts, produce just as much light as a 40W incandescent and last 17 years @ 4 hours per day (about 25 times as long).

The GE Energy Smart LEDs don’t contain any mercury and are cooler to the touch than either CFLs or incandescent bulbs.

These should be available in early 2011.

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INSTEON RemoteLinc EZ – remote and LampLinc starter kit

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INSTEON RemoteLinc EZHere’s a relatively inexpensive way to turn off your household lights with handheld remote – the INSTEON RemoteLinc EZ. This starter kit includes the INSTEON RemoteLinc EZ and LampLinc Dual-Band EZ modules.

Plug a lamp into LampLinc EZ module, plug the LampLinc EZ module into an available outlet and link it to your remote control.

So now in a matter of minutes, you can get to turning lights on and off, dimming and even creating lighting ‘scenes’.

The Remote can control up to 5 devices; just buy additional LampLinc modules.

PS> INSTEON is a great technology that makes it easy to get started on a home automation adventure.

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Price: $49.99
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