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News, reviews and articles about home and kitchen products.

This supersized digital photo frame puts real artwork on your walls

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A few years ago digital photo frames were really popular. I always liked the idea of photo frames, but their size was never big enough in my opinion. Enter the Digital Art Museum from Hammacher Schlemmer. This huge 32 x 21 inch 1080P digital frame can be mounted on your wall to display famous works […]

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Make your home smarter by replacing your light switches with Brilliant Controls

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Brilliant Controls replace your existing light switches to add smart home control capabilities to your rooms. The Brilliant Control features a color LCD touch screen that allows everyone in the house to access music, temperature, and more with just a simple touch or voice command. Don’t worry, no smartphone is required.

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Ember mug keeps your hot beverage at the perfect temperature (in theory)

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Every morning I fix myself a large mug of hot tea after getting to my day job or before a marathon of couch surfing on the weekends at home. I don’t drink the tea quickly enough to enjoy the full mug at a temperature that’s just right. I usually end up nuking it in the

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Sort out your grinds for the perfect cup of coffee with the Kruve Sifter

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The coffee enthusiast will tell you that a good, consistent grind is essential to the perfect cup of coffee. That’s hard to achieve at home without a high-end coffee grinder. The Kruve Sifter is an ingenious solution that enables you to consistently get the most out of your beans with the grinding gear you already

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LEDVANCE’s Sylvania Lightify A19 LED bulb review

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Home automation has been a dramatic theme of science fiction for ages, yet few realize that this sci-fi premise is a day-to-day reality for many people. While most people are content enough to rely on the time-tested light switch and power button, many have invested in home automation to provide greater access to existing lighting and appliances,

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Blink announces IFTTT integration for their home security cameras

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Blink continues to add more products and features to their line of home security cameras and products. Earlier this week they announced that their wire-free security cameras will have IFTTT integration (for US users only). If you’re not familiar with IFTTT, it stands for If This Then That. It’s a programmable cloud-based trigger system that

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LIFX Color 1000 A19 WiFi LED smart bulb review

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If you haven’t replaced all the incandescent light bulbs in your home for LED bulbs yet, what are you waiting for? LED bulbs use less energy which means you’ll see a lower electric bill, they last longer than traditional bulbs and they are better for the environment. If those aren’t good enough reasons for you

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LOFTEK SANSI 10W Wifi LED Light Bulb review

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LED technology keeps getting more and more common. As it does, the costs keep going down, and the cycle of innovation and placing them into more and more common items continues. Sansi, through their Loftek brand, has an LED bulb that doesn’t need a hub to be “group-able” and controllable from an app on your

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TAO Clean Aura Clean System Orbital Facial Brush & Cleaning Station review

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When I was a teenager, I had acne and was self-conscience about the way I looked. I remember trying different types of cleansers, lotions, buff puff cleaning pads that exfoliated my skin, drugs perscribed by the dermatologist, and other things. Nothing much helped me back then and I’m so glad I finally grew out of

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RapidX Ferrino gaming and lifestyle chair review

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I tried the whole standing desk thing for awhile but it didn’t take too long for me to realize that I prefer parking my buns in a chair while I’m working. Since I do a LOT of working, I do a LOT of sitting, so I need a comfortable chair. When RapidX asked if I would

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Get organized with this cool wall mounted shelving system

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Is one of your new year’s resolutions to become more organized and tidy? The Keep Track shelving system looks like a very cool way to get a jump start on that goal. The Keep Track is a wall mounted block of alder wood that has a slot for specially designed metal plates that can be

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Blink adds home security products to their growing line up of monitoring gear

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Only one month after announcing their new wireless outdoor camera, Blink is expanding further; this time into the home security products and services space. Later this week at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, the company will be showcasing their Blink Seecurity™ systems and monthly service plans which will be available this year in

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Netatmo Presence Outdoor Security Camera review

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After reviewing the D-link HD WiFi Camera DCS-935L, the Zetta Z16 HD Wide Angle Intelligent Security Camcorder, and the DoorBird Video Doorbell, the overly sensitive motion detectors on the cameras of each device drove me crazy. Many security cameras also have subscription fees to store your recordings which I also find frustrating. I still wanted

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The java is strong with this Star Wars R2-D2 Coffee Press from ThinkGeek

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In the Star Wars stories, the faithful little astromech droid R2-D2 had many gadgets to help his friends out of numerous bad situations. Brought to you by our friends at ThinkGeek, here’s an R2-D2 feature we never saw in the films: a Coffee Press. Yes, Star Wars fans, R2-D2 can help infuse you with your daily

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