Smart Home 🏠

My neighbor got a fancy biometric lock installed last winter. By February, it stopped recognizing his thumb because the cold had dried out his skin badly enough to confuse the…

I'll be upfront — I bought my first smart plug thinking it was one of those things I'd use for a week and forget about. It's sitting in my living…

Nobody thinks about their smart bulb as a security risk. That's kind of the problem. I didn't either, until I spent an afternoon reading through documented botnet exploits and realized…

I'll be honest — I bought a smart bulb starter kit three years ago thinking it would transform my electricity bill. It did not. What it did was introduce me…

So I pulled my old thermostat off the wall one Saturday morning, fully expecting a quick swap. Thirty minutes, tops. What I found instead was a cluster of thin colored…

There's a perfectly good television sitting in my spare room. It's from around 2008, still works flawlessly, picture is fine, sound is fine. But every time someone mentions wanting to…

I bought my first smart bulb because it was on sale for four dollars. That was it — no grand plan, no vision for a connected home. Just a cheap…

I'll be honest — I put this off for way longer than I should have. The TV was set up, the kids were already watching things I hadn't approved, and…