CES 2023: Smart Home Insights
It’s been a few weeks since our annual trip to Las Vegas for CES 2023 and we’ve had some time to reflect on our experience. It’s still the best place for us to see...
Category: Insights
Our thoughts, opinions and insights on the smart home market.
CES 2023: Our Top 20 Home Tech Products
This year’s CES had more than 3200 exhibitors and 115,000 attendees, far from the record but still nearly three times as many people as last year. Parties and shaking hands were back. Affiliate Disclosure:...
Peloton: One Year Later
I never thought I’d be the kind of person who bought a Peloton. Even before the infamous commercial from the 2019 holiday season, I thought that Pelotons were stupid and over-priced. My first memory...
CES 2022: Top 20 Home Tech Products
We were so happy to return to Las Vegas this year to see what’s new in home technology at the Consumer Electronics Show. Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains links that may earn us a...
CES 2022: Smart Home Insights
We made it to Las Vegas for our first in-person Consumer Electronics Show since 2020. We’ve been attending CES pretty regularly since 2015, and it remains the best place to see all the latest...
DIY Home Security: Moving Inside
Our series on DIY home security systems we’ve tested in our own home. Depending on your comfort level in your home and with technology, protecting the perimeter with a video doorbell, a smart lock,...
DIY Home Security: Protect the Perimeter
Our series on DIY home security systems we’ve tested in our own home Now that you’ve learned a bit more about DIY smart home security in parts one and two of our series, let’s...
Is Full DIY Home Security for you?
Our series on DIY home security systems we’ve tested in our own home Part 2: Protecting what’s Important We started our DIY smart home journey by adding technology for convenience before we started thinking...
DIY Home Security Insights
Our series on DIY home security systems we’ve tested in our own home. Part 1: Introduction Security is very personal, it can have a lot to do with your upbringing, where you live, and...
Best Alexa devices for every room: Our 2021 guide
We got our first Amazon Echo in late 2015. By that time, we’d already been buying smart devices and blogging about them for a few years, but everything we used was controlled by an...