Smart home products developers have never been exactly subtle but a new leak that appears to come from smart bulb giant Philips appears to demonstrate that the company is expanding its smart home line significantly, starting with a new smart plug intended to compete with other titans like Amazon.

Just like Keurig offers coffee junkies a quick and clean solution to making a cup of joe, a new Miami-based startup called Cleanyst is offering a new smart home solution that enables users to mix and match high-quality concentrates to create home cleaning products that are organic, clean, and efficient.

Vayyar Imaging has been making cool strides in the construction industry for a while but its new Walabot DIY Plus is a real breakthrough for homeowners and construction professionals, enabling them to scan through plaster, drywall, and concrete to get a better idea of what to do next.

Arlo Technologies has been pretty tenuous about getting into the smart home market with both feet until recently but after new images of a video doorbell leaked from one of Arlo's partner companies, I-View Now, the company confirmed that an HD smart home video doorbell will be on the market soon.

A new pilot program that originated at the U.S. Department of Agriculture would enable beneficiaries of food stamps to buy food online from retailers like Amazon and Walmart. The pilot program will be launched in New York and spread to other states in the next few months.

Smart homes may be all the rage right now but Orion Pictures has figured out a new way to scare you out of yours. It's putting the classic horror villain Chucky in charge of a murderous smart home platform called "Buddi" in the new reboot of Child's Play starring Mark Hamill as the infamous killer doll.

Palo Alto-based home renovation and design firm Houzz is adding a new innovation to its View in My Room 3D application that gives users the ability to use augmented reality to see how their joint might look if they installed new tile in the place and order it on the spot.

LG has been a leader in the smart home market for a long time and one of its areas of expertise is washing machines, so it's no surprise that the company is launching a Wi-Fi-enabled washing machine designed for the smart home that uses patented steam-driven technology and remote connectivity.

Tiny homes seem to come in all shapes and forms these days, and Igluhuts are no exception. While the homes look more like a hobbit might come out of one on the outside, inside, there's a modern and sleek look aimed at relaxation and rejuvenation. Just ask soccer star David Beckham, who owns one.

The research and analysis firm Canalys predicts that the worldwide market for smart speakers like Amazon's Echo devices and Google Home smart speakers will reach a massive crescendo this year, topping 200 million smart speakers by the end of 2019 with the U.S. accounting for nearly half the market.

A relatively small outfit operating out of Guntersville, Alabama is offering incredibly mobile tiny homes that are quite spacious compared to other tiny homes. It can be assembled for about $125,000 and includes nearly 400 square feet of living space with more features available upon request.

Alexa is capable of a lot of things and saving your life might be next on the list. The intelligent digital assistant has recently acquired a bunch of new skills related to the HIPAA Act of 1996. Commands include the ability to schedule an urgent care appointment or check blood sugar results.

Keurig has been king of the single-serve coffee market for years, but an upstart in Santa Cruz, California is upending the coffee market with a new way to brew coffee instantly. Steeped Coffee looks like a tea bag, has a long shelf life, and is more environmentally friendly than K-Cups.

Leaked pictures of a sleek black-and-silver, conical Ecobee-branded camera turned up on Zatz Not Funny this week. Okay, it’s not exactly a surprise, but more like an inevitable addition to Ecobee’s lineup that nearly everyone in the smart home technology market has expected for some time.

Sure, why not? The Mona Lisa in the living room, right in front of the bar cart. The Venus de Milo smiling slyly during dinner. A little dance in the roccoco salon of Napoleon III right before bed. That's the newest hook from Airbnb, which is offering the wild prize in a new contest.

Owners of Iris-braded smart home devices sold by Lowe's were understandably bummed when the company stopped supporting the platform on March 31, but a smart home manufacturer called Hubitat has saved the day by figuring out how to support the devices via its home automation hub.

A stealthy new startup called Icon recently teamed up with a nonprofit that researches housing solutions to 3D-print a 350-square-foot tiny home in Austin, Texas that cost a fraction of the price of traditional building methods and offers proof-of-concept that technology can augment housing solutions.

A new tiny home design being showcased at this month's Milan Design Week is a transforming tiny home created by Italian architect Beatrice Bonzanigo of IB Studio called Casa Ojalá that uses a mechanical system of cranks and ropes to offer up to 20 different layouts and configurations to its residents.

Stone Temple, a subsidiary of Perficient Digital surveyed 1,700 users of smartphones and other digital devices and found that people are becoming accustomed to using voice commands at a progressive rate, not to mention adopting new technologies like IoT, digital assistants and smart speakers..

SimpliSafe is well-known to many homeowners because of its recently relaunched home security system, but now the company is expanding its push into the smart home market with a new high-tech video doorbell that includes a dual-sensor motion trigger and a body heat detector.

No pressure to destroy the one ring here: Just stay home. This "hobbit house" in River Falls, Wisconsin is not only airy, energy-efficient and solidly-built, it's also for sale at a bargain price of $190,000, down nearly $100,000 from its original listing price.

Traeger has been manufacturing its signature pellet grills for more than a quarter-century now but the innovative grill manufacturer is expanding with three new brands of its heavy-duty outdoor barbecue grills that are also equipped with smart home technology controls.

Google continues its steady march toward smart home domination this month by rewarding select Google One cloud storage service subscribers with a free Google Home Mini through April 21 and the technology giant will even cover shipping to send along your own smart speaker.

While the U.S. government has held a tight rein on security for networked devices like computers and cellphones, a bipartisan groups of legislators is now taking on the issue of cybersecurity for Internet of Things (IoT) devices by introducing a bill that would set new security standards.

Cleaning delicate or rare items or finding a decent cleaner while traveling can be a big pain but a new portable cleaning device called the Sonic Soak, is smaller than an iPhone and cleans using 50,000 ultrasonic vibrations per second to knock out stains and odors.

Durable, affordable, and almost impossible to mess up, a cast-iron skillet is the workhorse of the American kitchen. There are a wide variety of ways to clean and maintain a cast iron skillet, which can be one of the most useful tools in your kitchen. Here's how to take care of your most treasured cooking device.

The DFAB House at ETH Zurich university is using digital construction, 3D printing, and robot assembly units to transform how homes are built, test new building technologies, and make construction smarter and more sustainable.

Smart home technology has offered a wide variety of benefits to homeowners from security to child care to entertainment but a new survey from the Consumer Technology Association finds that elderly citizens may be more willing to adopt the technology in order to remain independent.

Cooking-related nuisance alarms have long been a common occurrence since homeowners and residents started keeping the alarms in their homes and apartments all the time but 2GIG's new smoke, heat, and freeze detector can tell the difference in smoke from synthetic materials and smoke from roasting a chicken.

Indiana-based kitchen and bath appliance manufacturer Delta is dipping its toes into the smart home technology market with a new innovation, VoiceIQ, that enables its faucets to sync with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa-assisted devices inducing smart phones and speakers to enable voice commands.

Adobe Analytics always surveys 1,000+ consumers this time of year about their feelings about voice technology and this year's results are promising, demonstrating that voice technology is popular with consumers, who are happy with their voice assistants and increasing adoptions of smart speakers.

The UK's Manchester community may be better known for football but as one of the fastest-growing cities in England, housing is becoming a priority and the developer Urban Splash is tackling the problem with flat-pack smart homes that can be assembled quickly and even reconfigured as needed.

Control4 is well known in the smart home market for its personalized automation and control solutions that work with over 12,000 products worldwide, but the global provider unveiled a surprise this month with a prototype of a tiny smart home that combines aesthetic design with smart home technology.

Color is one of the most marketable aspects of a smart home product and GE Appliances is going all in on its new Cafe line of appliances with stainless steel black and white colors to launch, followed by an assortment of four separate color hardware options this fall.