2024 Smart Home Holiday Gift Guide
Welcome to our eleventh annual smart home holiday gift guide! We don’t know how you feel, but for us 2024 has just flown by. It seems like we just returned from CES, but maybe...
Author: Valerie Antkowiak
IFA Berlin 2024: European Market Insights
We visit IFA Berlin 2024, our first time at the premier European consumer electronics show.
Our Antarctica Cruise on the Viking Polaris
We explored the Antarctica Peninsula on a 13-day Viking Expedition Cruise.
CES 2024: Smart Home Insights
In 2024, CES seems to be back to where it was in 2019. This year we could feel the energy and excitement on the show floor and in the city. Happy hours and after...
CES 2024: Our Top 20 Favorite Home Tech
Every year we visit CES it’s the same. People ask us what we saw, we say, oh not much. Nothing that exciting. Then we make our list of products and we have to debate...
2023 Smart Home Holiday Gift Guide
Welcome to our tenth smart home holiday gift guide! We’ve been sharing our favorite home technology gift ideas every year since 2014. We used to wait until Black Friday, but it now seems shopping...
Smart Home Tour: Behind the Scenes at AppMyHome
Our friend and fellow creator Brandon Doyle came through California on his Tesla road trip and stopped to take a tour of our smart home. We had a great time showing him around and...
FoodMarble AIRE 2 Review: Now Measuring Methane
Almost everyone has experienced digestive issues in their life. Bloating, constipation, diarrhea, gas – it’s not fun to talk about but most of us can relate. For some folks, occasionally discomfort and inconvenience can...
A Week in Provence
We spent a relaxing week in Provence, from our home base in the hilltop town of Bonnieux.
Tasting Wine and Truffles in Alba, Italy
From Bologna, we traveled to the northwest of Italy, to Piedmont. On our last trip to Italy in 2018, our friends Pete and Kari joined us in Siena, then they traveled up to Piedmont...