What are Alexa Skills? Alexa has found its way to millions of homes according to Amazon’s recent press-release. Adding to the smart speaker’s already exciting feature set, Amazon and developers of third party products, apps and services have created add-ons called ‘Alexa skills’ to add additional functionality. Enabling one has never been easier. Just say, …
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Augmented Reality is about to make an entrance in to your living room with Hayo. A gesture-controlled remote that in some ways works like a Google Home or an Amazon Echo. Turning on your TV with a snap, or dimming the lights with just a wave of your hand, play or pause a song with …
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Own a Google Pixel Phone? Now you can control your smart home right from your phone. The Siri-like software, which Google simply calls ‘Assistant’, now has all the functionality of their dedicated hub, ‘Google Home‘ which was announced in May 2016. An update that was released just weeks ago, allows the flagship line of Google’s …
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Amazon introduced the Echo speaker on in November 2014. At that time, it could only be bought by special invitation and Prime members at that time. Not much was known about what this ‘smart speaker’ could do. Today, ‘Alexa’ has found its way in to millions of homes. While Amazon Echo is amazing by itself …
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Amazon Tap, priced currently at $130, was always the odd one of the line up. While Amazon Echo (the flagship and most expensive at $180) and Echo Dot (the cheapest at $50) both responded to “Alexa”, the Tap had to be touched before you could tell it do something and it has a battery. All …
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Google Home developers baked in some cool Easter Eggs. Try these if you want to have some fun with your smart assistant. Say “OK Google, I’m feeling lucky” to start up a multi-player game show. Say “OK Google, Give me a random number between (x) and (y)” to hear a random number between the two – …
Home automation has come a long way since the early days. No longer is there a need to hardwire or pre-wire a custom home at the time of construction. In the Internet of Things (IoT) wireless technologies like ZigBee and Z-Wave have emerged and anyone can install a wide array of home automation products in …
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