This story originally ran on Friday, July 28, 2023 in my weekly IoT newsletter. You can sign up for the newsletter here. Update on Wednesday, August 2, 2023: I spoke with Tuo CEO Sam Gabbay to get more information about what is going on with … [Read more...]
The Homey bridge is a simple (but sweet) home hub
This week, customers in the U.S. can spend $69 for the Homey Bridge, a smart home hub designed and sold in Europe, and now available for the first time here in the U.S. The Homey Bridge is a smart home hub designed for folks who are privacy-conscious … [Read more...]
Smart buttons benefit business, too
For the last two years, Shortcut Labs, the Swedish company behind the Flic buttons, has seen its sales to enterprises spike. Dirk Lüders, the head of partnerships at Shortcut Labs, told me that about half of the company's revenue now comes from … [Read more...]
Adding smarts to a garage door isn’t always ideal
On our most recent IoT Podcast episode, we took a question from Sam on our Voicemail hotline. Sam has a Chamberlain MyQ connected garage door opener and he wants to make it easier for his children to open the garage. Currently, Sam can open the … [Read more...]
My husband’s favorite smart home devices
This article is by Andrew Allemann. Those who live and breathe the Internet of Things can get a little too close to it. We lose sight of what it's like for the typical person to live with connected technologies. So I asked my husband to think … [Read more...]