April 1, 2016
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Nicholas Echevarria/
We’re not quite at the point of questioning’s someone’s grasp of reality if their lights aren’t connected to the Internet. But while most would immediately point to the Philips Hue as the de ...
March 10, 2016
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Nicholas Echevarria/
While smartphones and laptops continue to slim down and offer more powerful specs, the humble strip keeps on chugging along in all its practical, drab glory, doling out power and taking names. Most of the time, ...
November 28, 2015
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Nicholas Echevarria/
Smartphones are so ubiquitous because just one replaces a wide variety of real-world objects. This has yet to happen to in the world of Internet of Things. Instead, more and more companies create more hardware that ...
October 25, 2015
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Nicholas Echevarria/
The intercom of yesteryear is a patently outdated fixture in most homes. So much so, in fact, that most homeowners probably don’t even use it. Considering the increasingly connected direction homes are going ...
August 3, 2015
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Nicholas Echevarria/
When couples have issues communicating, they go to a relationship counselor. When all the Internet of Things products in a home require 17 different apps to operate because they don’t communicate with each ...
May 20, 2015
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Arthur Tufeau/
Once upon a time, the idea of a camera ready to capture anything in a home would have sounded like something out of 1984, But the past few years have seen no shortage of connected indoor security cameras that allow ...
May 16, 2015
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Nicholas Echevarria/
Even though mailboxes have been around for at least a century, they haven’t changed all that much. They’re still physical boxes, they hold mail, and they don’t do much else. In a world where ...
February 24, 2015
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Ross Rubin/
It’s time for Episode 7 of The Backerjack Podcast. This week, Ross and Steve take on three projects: It’s an LED light bulb, it’s a pico projector, it’s Beam. Insert it into a standard ...
February 9, 2015
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Ross Rubin/
As Steve has been busy launching something for today that launched yesterday, we’ve been remiss in posting about what he and Ross, your two favorite crowdfunding connoisseurs, did a while back — ...
August 29, 2014
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Nicholas Echevarria/
The Premise. Although New York City winters can’t compare to those further up the eastern seaboard, they still pack quite a punch. For those with poorly heated apartments, they can be downright brutal. Although ...