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What Automation in Games Teaches About Smart Living
Video games are full of automated systems, from homes that run themselves to machines that work on command, and these offer...
A connected home brings convenience but also risk, since every connected device is a door that must be secured. Games that involve defending systems teach real lessons about this, about protecting a connected whole from its weakest point.
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Video games are full of automated systems, from homes that run themselves to machines that work on command, and these offer...
Automation and Routines
For about a year, my evening lighting routine worked perfectly.
Smart Lighting
The first time I tried to use smart lights for a big football match, I made the living room look like a nightclub.
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The heart of a connected home is control: the ability to see and manage many systems from one place.
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A smart home is not really about individual gadgets but about how they work together, and getting different devices to...
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Smart home technology is sold on the promise of simplicity, a home that responds to your voice and runs itself, but anyone who...
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Three people who actually live with the gear they write about: a reviewer who buys new devices the day they launch and keeps a running list of what has failed him, a former security systems installer who now writes about what cameras and sensors actually protect against, and someone who builds absurdly complex home automations for fun and then writes the simpler version everyone else actually needs. Every article carries a byline, and nothing runs that the writer has not set up themselves.