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The 9 Top Home Tech Trends for 2017
Tech has finally infiltrated our homes, but we’re just beginning to scratch the surface of what home automation can really do. And smart tech has had an admittedly pretty rocky start. With a confusing number of platforms, not to mention a number of high-profile security flaws, smart devices were starting to seem a little less…
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This Misubishi air-conditioner lets you create two temperature zones in one room!
Mitsubishi Electric is in the works of creating a fascinating new air conditioner called the Kirigamine FZ Series. This unique contraption will settle generations of squabbles about the ‘optimum temperature in a room’. About six models of the same shall be released with capacities ranging from 4kW to 9kW. The magical property of this device…
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NASA announces sleep-promoting Light Bulb to boost sleep
Sleep is but a gift to many. When it comes to astronauts there are more than a few reasons where sleep becomes absolutely crucial. NASA has developed a specially-designed light bulb that promotes sleep. This is achieved by encouraging the production of melatonin, the hormone that helps us sleep. The light emitted by this bulb…
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Zip It, the table cloth that helps you enjoy a smartphone-free meal
Human beings have begun to slowly forget just how to interact with each other in real life and have begun to resort to pieces of technology instead. One of these devices that constantly cloud our livelihoods is the mobile phone and its larger cousin, the tablet. Devices as such have forced us to log on…
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Cube Swtchplates create a 3-D optical illusion
Here’s a wall switch that performs as ordinarily as one should perform but surely, it doesn’t look all that ordinary. It gives an impression of being a 3-D switch box. However, one should make sure that it is placed in a strategically selected and well analyzed portion of the wall that can be viewed both,…
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The Mathmos Babushka is a Russian doll reincarnated, as a lamp!
Remember those eye catching Russian dolls that always ended littering your toy drawers? Yeah, those little wooden figurines that would open up to reveal similar figurines inside it, only one size smaller. This would go on and on till you would finally have the smallest and most adorable doll in your palm. Then you put…
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Athena Sofa – your own hi-tech sofa
Athena Sofa has come out with a highly advanced and out-of-the-box sofa set by including an integrated computer, an iPod/iPhone dock, MP3 player with a wireless connection over the 2.4 Ghz radio signal, an 8 inch subwoofer and series of loudspeakers. Athena Sofa also includes a 100 watt digital amplifier which gives you a feel…
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Easy Climb the stairs sans the pain
My grandmother lives with us and we have a two-story house. Bogged with arthritis, very often she ends up not visiting the other two floors because she finds it difficult to climb up the stairs. How nice it would be, if we installed something like this Easy Climb chair. It would certainly make life easy…
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Digitable Coffee Table with Built-In CD/DVD Player
Giving a futuristic appeal, designer Peter Lea has created a very stunning digitable coffee table featuring an inbuilt CD and DVD player. This sleek design simply needs to be paired up with a plasma TV and a bowl of popcorn and you’re set for a remarkable movie experience. The only hitch, its still a concept.
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The Pool Protector Alarm for Unsupervised Pools
It’s not always possible to monitor your private pool especially if only a handful of you are going to use it. Devices like the Pool Protector Alarm quite handy for such situations. Kids, pets, drunks or those occasionally Hollywood style-runaway cars; the alarm goes off whenever either of these pay an unwarranted visit to the…
