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Adding Wi-Fi doesn’t always turn out to be as smart as it sounds. A smart smoke detector turns out to…

The robot uses Bluetooth to communicate with your phone and uses 2.4-GHz Wi-Fi to connect directly to your home network…

What Do You Need to Know Before Buying Smart Shades?AccordionItemContainerButtonTailor-Made vs. Off-the-Shelf: Few things look smarter than perfectly fitted shades…

For the purposes of this review, Irrigreen sent me a kit that can connect to a garden hose, so the…

I’ve always been an Ikea fan. I lived in nine different apartments over 15 years before moving into my home,…

Compare Our PicksOthers We TestedPhotograph: Kat MerckLitter-Robot 5 for $799: While on a recent trip, I received an urgent message…

The vacuum failed to clean up two of the three test Cheerios that I strategically placed around my main floor…

Tired of solicitors knocking on your front door trying to sell you junk while you’re relaxing? You can grab the…

Photograph: Simon HillLight Detection and Ranging (Lidar): This system, also used by self-driving cars, fires out rapid laser pulses to…

But once you’ve set up your device, Heatbit will track and file your mining revenue to your phone, even if…

No one wants the tunes buffering when they have friends round for a barbecue or a stuttering podcast as they…

To use Area mode, you first have to define the boundaries of the area. This is done in the app…

Other Video Doorbells to ConsiderI’ve tested several other video doorbells. These are the ones that narrowly missed out on a…

Where the X10 Pro Omni had rotating mop pads, the rolling mop pad on the Omni C28 continuously self-cleans to…

I won’t lie to you: I hated the first digital wall calendar I tried.I tried the Hearth Display last year…

After testing smart bird feeders year-round for WIRED for almost two years, I’ve discovered many things I don’t like: models…