The Kangaroo Smart Motion+Entry sensor is an elegant and inexpensive solution to monitor your home entry. You will get a notification when someone enters. Also helps you keep track of how often your kids visit the pantry! Get it on Amazon. Recommended Reading: 50 Insanely Useful Smart Home Products To Make Your Life Easier
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Product Of The Week: The Cute New Echo Dot
Amazon’s 4th iteration of its ever popular Echo dot is a fun little orb! Check out the kids’ version! Get it on Amazon. Recommended Reading: 50 Insanely Useful Smart Home Products
Product Of The Week: A Minimalist Smart Printer That You Don’t Need To Hide
Finally. This smart printer from HP has a small foot print and its stylish aesthetics mean you don’t need to stash it somewhere far, far away from your desk. And it has beautiful linen covers to match a variety of styles. Get it on Amazon. Recommended Reading: 50 Insanely Useful Smart Home Products To Make . . .
Product Of The Week: An Interactive Owl Shaped Security Camera
Ok, we are calling it. This is the cutest security camera on the planet. Static images does not do this beautiful product justice. Do check out the video: Get in on Amazon. Recommended Reading: 50 Insanely Useful Smart Home Products To Make Your Life Easier
Product Of The Week: A Beautiful, Mechanically Locked USB Drive
Our product of the week this time is a rather curious device. It is beautiful in its design and ingenious in its operation. A secret combination of the positions of the four gears releases a concealed USB drive. Get it on Amazon. Recommended Reading: 50 Cool Kitchen Gadgets That Would Make Your Life Easier
Product Of The Week: A Hi-tech Coffee Table With Built In Refrigerator
Ever wished you could magically conjure up refreshments in your living room without that trip to the kitchen refrigerator? Look no further. Sobro’s coffee table does that and a lot more with its compact form and modern looks. Besides juicing you up with refreshments it does that to your phone and other devices as well . . .
Cool Product Alert: A Smart Night Stand
Alright, what do you call a modern minimalist night stand that has a built in mobile controlled audio system, smart locking cabinet, wireless phone charger, motion activated night light and a sunrise alarm? Answer: The Curvilux Smart Nightstand. Get it on Amazon.
Cool Product Alert: Furniture & Accessories With Wireless Phone Charging
In the war against wires, wireless phone chargers have always been game chargers. Even though you still need these chargers to be plugged into power sockets, having the ability to keep your phone untethered brings in real advantages in terms of convenience. However, the benefits of wireless charging become truly significant only when these chargers . . .
Product Of The Week: Blumoo Smart Control For Universal Control Of All Your Devices
Blumoo solves a real problem. In this age of an ever increasing cluster of devices that we are pressured to operate on a daily basis, keeping track of which is which can be a challenging task. The beauty of Blumoo Smart Control is that it combines the functionality of every one of those remotes into . . .
An Engineer’s Incredible High-Tech Dream Home
Designed for an engineer with a strong interest in anything mechanical and technological, this dream home started with a humble concept for a rural cottage but quickly grew into something else entirely. And the result is breathtaking! At the beginning of this amazing project, the client only had two basic requirements: that it should have . . .
50 Cool Kitchen Gadgets That Would Make Your Life Easier
This jumbo kitchen gadget compilation has all the latest inspiration you could need, whether you’re looking to round out your own collection, decorating a newly remodeled kitchen, or searching for a last-minute housewarming gift or a thoughtful present for a talented chef – there’s something here for anybody and everybody. Kitchen tools are always a . . .
Audio Video Junkie Nirvana: A Great Home Entertainment Setup
With so much technology to pack into our homes these days, we’re always looking for examples that manage to house their gadgets in good balance-avoiding overbearing towers of black boxes and a spaghetti junction of wires. This home, belonging to Blu Ray community user TheForce, has an utterly enviable collection of big boys toys that . . .
Smart Homes: Are We There Yet?
Update: We are certainly there now. (Case in point: 50 Insanely Useful Smart Home Products You Can Buy Right Now) Those who have played Xbox Kinect will have experienced a little of what it’s like to live in a digitally submersive world like that featured in the movie Minority Report, where a wave of your . . .
Scientists Create A True Magic Mirror
If you had any doubts regarding the direction in which technology is headed, you can lay that to rest. Whether you like it or not, it is going to creep into every corner of your home at one point of time. And yes, this would include your bathroom. Researchers at New York Times Lab have . . .
A Massive Home Entertainment Setup
Okay here is a guy who is serious about his home entertainment system. Serious enough to mock it up using a sketch up program… Recommended Reading: 50 Insanely Useful Smart Home Products You Can Buy Right Now
7 Videos That Envision How Things Could Be In The Future
We at Home-Designing are big fans of what the future could be! We love looking at those bold and daring stuff innovators think up today which they hope to take mainstream tomorrow. Here are 7 such videos that give us a taste of what devices and experiences could be like in the near future. (If . . .
HiCan: The Ultimate Luxury Bed
For those who love to be pampered, this would be your nirvana. This luxury bed system from HiCan is designed to serve you as a relaxation/entertainment cocoon. The bed has blinds that can enclose you for a restful, free sleep, provided with finest bedding system. It also comes with a state-of-the-art sound system, reading lights, . . .
Futuristic Exhibition Center Marrying Digital Media & Sustainability
ART+COM (a group of designers specializing in designing spaces with new media) has broken down the abstract concept of sustainability for the average person with a tangible digital media exhibition located at Autostadt, Volkswagen’s communications platform in Wolfsburg, Denmark. As a visitor navigates the “Level Green: The Concept of Sustainability” exhibit, they can learn about . . .
A Beautiful High-Tech Home
Are fully automated high-tech homes our future? Builder and CEO Frank VaFaee’s team of engineers and architects collaborated to create a truly innovative, modern house that is not only eco-friendly but also has a leg up on traditional houses in terms of spaciousness, life span, maintenance level, and ability to upgrade. Much of the appliances . . .
How you will read magazines and newspapers in the future
We have a little section at HD where we look at technology products that could potentially change our lifestyle. Through this home tech section, we peek at things that fascinate us in the gadget world and there is a particular medium that is catching our attention quite a lot these days: Tablets. The growth of . . .
Awesome Interactive Wall
When technology meets office design to create an eye catching workplace viewable from blocks away, we can’t help but be tinkled pink at the thought. The events agency Büro Hirzberger hired one of the best techie talents, Austrian design agency Strukt Design Studio to create a digitally enhanced wall that would capture the essence of . . .