smart home Archives - LIEFFIE https://lieffie.com/tag/smart-home/ Digital News and Development Sat, 11 Jan 2025 12:30:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://lieffie.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-to-help-ais-understand-the-world-researchers-put-them-in-a-robot-32x32.jpg smart home Archives - LIEFFIE https://lieffie.com/tag/smart-home/ 32 32 Three bizarre home devices and a couple good things at CES 2025 https://lieffie.com/digital-news/three-bizarre-home-devices-and-a-couple-good-things-at-ces-2025/ Sat, 11 Jan 2025 12:30:11 +0000 https://lieffie.com/digital-news/three-bizarre-home-devices-and-a-couple-good-things-at-ces-2025/ And yet, this week, in a CES-adjacent announcement, Google reminded me that Matter can really, uh, matter. All of Google Home’s hub devices—Nest...

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]]> Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds https://lieffie.com/digital-news/startup-will-brick-800-emotional-support-robot-for-kids-without-refunds/ Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:55:50 +0000 https://lieffie.com/digital-news/startup-will-brick-800-emotional-support-robot-for-kids-without-refunds/ Startup Embodied is closing down, and its product, an $800 robot for kids ages 5 to 10, will soon be bricked. Embodied blamed...

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]]> The good, the bad, and the ugly behind the push for more smart displays https://lieffie.com/digital-news/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-behind-the-push-for-more-smart-displays/ Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:40:26 +0000 https://lieffie.com/digital-news/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-behind-the-push-for-more-smart-displays/ After a couple of years without much happening, smart displays are in the news again. Aside from smart TVs, consumer screens that connect...

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