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Archive for the ‘Household’ Category

Kwikset finally adds remote locking functionality to door locks

Kwikset’s SmartKey has been lacking in intelligence for quite awhile, but at long last, the outfit has finally added a pivotal feature here at CEDIA: true remote locking and unlocking. The new remote access control solution is being dubbed SmartCode with Home Connect — an unnecessarily lengthy way of explaining how the company’s keyless locks can now communicate [...]

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Philips HF3490 Wake-up Light is also a bedside lamp, iPod dock

Philips has long been a proponent of light alarms and, in an effort to stay hip with the kids, it’s added a detachable iPod / iPhone dock to its latest offering. The HF3490 might never serve as your music station, but it tries hard, bringing an FM radio and some soothing sounds along. With 30 different levels of [...]

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VTech’s Bluetooth-packing LS6245 offers “virtual” two-line phone system

VTech Communications, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of VTech Holdings Ltd. (HKSE: 303; ADR: VTKHY) and the largest U.S. cordless phone manufacturer, today announced availability of the LS6245 — the first system of its kind capable of connecting landline and cellular phone calls simultaneously that can also be paired with up to eight Bluetooth -enabled [...]

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The solar powered UVonion illuminates and sanitizes

Just see what one designer, Yun Li, did in his design for a sanitizer. Yes, he has designed the product after an onion, that too a product that is meant to sanitize the interior of your home.  As to what possessed them to create an onion shaped UV light, I have no idea.  No matter [...]

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MicroFridge for small space convenience

Today earth is getting cramped and uncomfortable no thanks to ever increasing prosperity as well as better mortality rates alongside one important fact - nobody makes land anymore, unless you want to run extremely expensive reclamation projects. Having said that, it is extremely common for families to live in apartments, making space a premium in [...]

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