These products offer convenient home enhancements, such as control and safety sensors that work without setup, a smart lock that charges itself, and blinds that automatically shield you from the sun.

Even after my tests were done, I decided to upgrade certain smart home devices to full-time help. Here's what won out.

All SONOFF WiFi and Zigbee home automation devices can now work with the Matter protocol. This can be done in two ways: ...

The Lego Smart Brick won our Best in Show award at CES 2026, and it was no wonder after watching Lego designer Maarten Simons ...

Google Home has added new starters, conditions, and actions that let your automations respond to real activity like media ...

Devices equipped with Emerson's SmartVoice don't require Wi-Fi or a hub; instead, they utilize on-device voice control.

Google has been constantly working on improving the Google Home experience, pushing out major updates to the app every couple ...

A smart home isn’t about stuffing your house with gadgets you have to babysit or juggling app after app just to turn off a ...

This project utilizes an Arduino Uno CH340G development board paired with a DHT11 temperature and humidity sensor to create a compact yet capable environmental monitoring system. It measures ambient ...

Qualcomm’s latest entrant to its Snapdragon X Series, the Snapdragon X2 Plus, has been unveiled at CES 2026. It features the ...

Linux and open source aren't making headlines at CES 2026, but they're working behind the scenes in embedded, automotive, and ...

Abstract: The concept of Smart Trolley improves the shopping experience by automating various processes by using RFID or Radio Frequency Identification technology. It comprises RFID tags for the items ...