Author: Valerie Antkowiak

Smart Comfort with Haiku Fans

Update July 16, 2019 – Big Ass Fans has discontinued the separate Haiku Home branding but still sells the Haiku and entry-level Haiku L Series fans through their Big Ass Fans Home residential line of...

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Smart Home Cooking Challenge: Blue Apron

UPDATE March 1, 2026: Blue Apron has gone through an extensive re-brand and now offers meal kits, ready-made and other options without a subscription. Check out their new offerings and read our updated review. For...

SkyBell HD – Smart Doorbell

Update April 17, 2020: We retired our Skybell after using three generations of the product. While the Skybell HD is still available through some third-party sellers on Amazon, it appears the best way to...

Smart Home Cooking with Terra’s Kitchen

Update April 17, 2020: Terra’s Kitchen filed for bankruptcy in September 2019. Check out our latest meal kit comparison. Our latest experiment with smart home packaged cooking kits is Terra’s Kitchen. When we saw the...

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Smart Home Cooking with Home Chef

Update April 17, 2020: We reviewed Home Chef in 2015. Read our most recent meal service comparison. We continue our review of some of the the latest home delivery meal-kit services with Home Chef....

CES 2017 Smart Home Wrap-Up

Every year thousands of visitors converge on Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, the annual exhibition for new technology products.  2017 marked the show’s 50th year and AppMyHome joined about 175,000 others to...

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State of our Smart Home 2017

As we head into 2017, after more than three years on our journey to automate our home, it’s a good time to reflect about how far we have come and how the products have...