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NutriBullet Brings Sensing Smarts To The Smoothie
Bluetooth blender lets users track nutritional info in real time
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The State Of The Smart Home: Voice Control
Fifty-five percent of U.S. broadband households find it appealing to use voice control to control or understand the status of connected devices, according to...
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Sonos One Seeks To Be The Speaker For All (Digital) Voices
Sonos continued its commitment to voice control with the launch of a new “platform-agnostic” speaker that will be compatible with Google Assistant, Alexa and...
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Roku Now Offers 5 Streaming Devices, Topping Out At $99.99
Roku is refreshing its hardware lineup and updating its operating system in order to better address the burgeoning — and wide-ranging — cord-cutter market....
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Samsung Teams With ADT For DIY Home Security Starter Kit
Samsung is partnering with ADT for a line of a DIY home-security solutions employing Samsung’s SmartThings platform. Two products will become available on Oct....
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Russound Moves Into The Backyard
Russound is shipping its first landscape speakers meant for use in outdoor audio environments. The new 70-volt/100-volt/8-ohm AW4-LS-BR speaker, with a suggested retail of...
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Bluetooth Mesh’s Debut Welcomed
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) new Bluetooth LE spec now supports mesh networking, making the wireless technology an option for largescale device networks....
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5 Selling Points to Get Customers to Adopt Smart Home (The Easy Way)
Smart home technology is becoming increasingly mainstream, but there remains a significant segment of consumers who are still on the fence about whether they...
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Smart-Home Appliances Have Hit The Market — Will Consumers Buy In?
If this year’s CES and SXSW Interactive are any indication, I might suggest that the convergence of home appliances and technology won’t just shake...
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As Intelligent Speakers Get Smarter, The Phone Might Be The Next To Go
Intelligent home speaker shipments reached 5.9 million units globally in 2016, according to research by Strategy Analytics, and will grow tenfold by 2022, driven...
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Subscriptions Are Key To Unlocking Smart Home’s Spoils
After several years of head-spinning innovation and much pondering, retailers and manufacturers are starting to make sense of the smart home. Much of it...
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Amazon’s Top Smart-Home Picks For Summer ’17
Amazon has begun a tradition of seasonal product previews for the press, and this year’s no exception. At an exhibition space in Manhattan’s West...
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Helping Consumers Navigate The Ever-Connected Life
Today we are experiencing the challenges of an impersonal connected lifestyle, while mobile and at home. The amount of services, apps, brands and situations...
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T-ROC Adds Home Security To Its Growth Strategy
T-ROC, a supplier of third-party retail services, wants to bring its solutions to the under-utilized smart-home security category. Founded in 2007 by Brett Beveridge,...
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Google Home Ecosystem Throws Down The Gauntlet Before Amazon
With the availability of Google’s new smart-home hub, the company has marked its “move from mobile-first to AI-first,” stated CEO Sundar Pichai. Google Assistant,...
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Smart Majaps On The Cusp Of Consumer Acceptance
Smart appliances have been a long time a comin,’ but now that they’ve more or less arrived, consumers will still need a chance to...
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Consumer Comfort With The Connected Home Is Ramping Up
Consumers are increasingly becoming more comfortable with the notion of having a smart home, according to a recent survey by TWICE and research partner...
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LG Looks To Clear The Air
With the population aging and allergies on the rise, majap manufacturers are tapping into a lucrative health-related field: air quality products. LG Electronics, long...
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Roku’s Refreshed Streaming Devices Can Outperform Smart TVs
When the Netflix Player by Roku was first introduced back in 2008, it may have been hard to foresee that would lead not just...
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5 Reasons Why Amazon’s Alexa Is The Real Deal
So why is Amazon’s Alexa the breakthrough product that is finally going make voice control viable? It’s Open. It is truly unlimited what you...
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A Retailer’s Guide To Smart Locks
Today there are many retailers stocking their shelves with the kind of smart locks they think their customers will benefit from. However, how do...
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Consumers Are Almost Ready For The Smart Home. Are You?
The stats are impressive: Smart-home tech has already invaded 21 percent of all U.S. homes, and another 36 percent are considered viable customers. So...
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DIY Security’s Future Looking Secure At Retail
The DIY security-camera business is looking pretty secure for retailers. U.S. factory-level sales of DIY cameras sold by retailers are expected to grow at...
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AHAM Sees ‘Limitless Potential’ In Home Appliance Connectivity
A new white paper by the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) suggests that the white-goods industry is poised for a paradigm shift as...
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Small Appliances Smarten Up
It’s not just majaps that are ushering smart connectivity into the kitchen — consumers are now able to use their smartphones and tablets to...
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How The Connected Home Market Is Changing
Demand for home-automation products is rising in the DIY and custom-install channels, marketers agree. In fact, 54 percent of U.S. consumers ages 25 and...
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The Impact Of Do-It-Yourself In Smart Homes
TWICE: With awareness for home automation and smart homes growing, what is the value proposition of custom-installed home-automation systems? Brad Hintze, C4: There’s a...
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Smart Appliances’ Heyday On Its Way, Just Not Quite Yet
Much has been written – and engineered – around the concept of smart home appliances. But while manufacturers envision, and have already demonstrated, a...
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What Does The Future Hold For The Smart Home?
TWICE: How do you see consumer interest in home automation changing in the next five to 10 years? Brad Hintze, C4: The proliferation of...
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Apple HomeKit: A Big Deal?
TWICE: Did Apple’s HomeKit technology bring anything new to home automation? Describe its potential impact on the market. Brad Hintze, C4: Not just yet...
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Smart-Home Awareness, Confusion Are Challenges
TWICE: What are the biggest challenges facing DIY home automation Brad Hintze, C4: The biggest challenge is that a lot of home owners don’t...
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The Trouble With Multiple Standards In Smart Homes
TWICE: Is the variety of wireless home-automation standards sowing confusion among consumers and preventing the market from growing faster? Brad Hintze, C4: We would...
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Majap Dealers Embrace The Great Outdoors
NEW YORK – After meeting every conceivable consumer need in the kitchen and laundry room, major appliance retailers are turning their attention to the...
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Looking Inside The Outdoor-Speaker Systems
NEW YORK — Sales of installed outdoor-audio systems are heading up, thanks to rising new-home construction and stepped-up marketing by electronic systems contractors (ESCs)...
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Outdoor Mounts Stay Rugged For The Elements
NEW YORK — Although outdoor TVs haven’t yet reached mainstream status for consumers, those who do have them may seek extra-rugged mounting solutions that...
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Clarity Offers 2nd-Gen Captioning Home Phone
Chattanooga, Tenn. –– Plantronics’ Clarity division and ClearCaptions have teamed up to launch the second-generation Ensemble captioning home phone for the hearing impaired. The...
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Conn’s Opening First S.C. Stores, Adds Tempur-Pedic
Florence, S.C. – Conn’s is expected to enter South Carolina next month as part of its aggressive five-state expansion plan for 2014. A local...
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