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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...
As homes fill with connected devices, securing them becomes a real concern, and games, especially those involving hacking, infiltration, and defending connected systems like Watch Dogs, understand a surprising amount about the...
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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 promise of a smart home, where every device answers to a single command and the whole place behaves as one coordinated...
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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.