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The best hardware, software, and smart home services curated by the HomeTech.fm hosts. Updated every episode to help you build a smarter home.

242 picks from 239 episodes

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242 picks across 239 episodes

Relax with Coax

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TV to Right?

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Toronto, the Blue Jays, and a Pool Pressure Sensor

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Release RoomRelay v1.0.4 · guicn555/RoomRelay · GitHub - github.com

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Illumibot - House of Glass - TikTok

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GitHub - piitaya/ha95: Home Assistant 95 · GitHub - github.com

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GitHub - danielwoz/ubiquiti-protect-onvif-event-listener: A binary that listens to the configured third party cameras for detection events and sets up ubiquiti protect events with thumbnails. · GitHub - github.com

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Can Home Assistant Run Doom?

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GitHub - ugomeda/home-assistant-epaper-remote: An e-ink remote for Home-Assistant built with FastEPD - GitHub

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I built a theater in a toilet. - Youtube

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Surprise Birthday Delivery Surprise Gone Wrong

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100 years since the 'birth' of television took place in Soho | ITV News - ITV News

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fiio.com

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Apollo H-2 Annual Holiday Ornament For Charity

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GitHub - francescopace/espectre: 🛜 ESPectre 👻 - Motion detection system based on Wi-Fi spectre analysis (CSI), with Home Assistant integration. - GitHub

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Billy Bassistant AI fish | v2.0.0 feature: Improved MQTT say command with support for follow-ups

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#thehub - Patron Pick of the Week

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"House on Fire"

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Zillow - 232 Condado Cres, Ottawa, ON

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A Wide-Ranging Home Assistant Integration for Crestron - Residential Tech Today

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TikTok - automated_house Robot mower stress testing 😅 #smarthome #technology #robots

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Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s

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I gave my Real-time Conversation Billy Bass AI - Reddit

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OBBOTO: Your Desktop Sphere Buddy with Endless Fun

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WeatherStar 4000+

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Greg in Patron's Slack - Automator of the Month!

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Mower Gate - Reddit

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Stop a neighbours barking dog

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How to Assemble and Install the SmartWings Pergola Flexar Q3 | Setup & Remote Control Guide

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The Screamer

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The Serial Port

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Someone hacked Silicon Valley crosswalks to spoof Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk

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Apollo’s First Industrial Sensor Installation at LOTTE Aluminium USA i – Apollo Automation

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An electrical panel that works so hard it needs a smoke break

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Does anyone know where I can find a 3 gang plate with the plug on the right side not the left??

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Montreal's Snow Dump

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Josh AI Winter Event

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Aqara G5 Pro's also for sale?

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Weird Estate (@weirdestate@eigenmagic.net)

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Using an Aqara Window Contact Sensor to Detect Toilet Flushes

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This is my wood case for a home assistant touch display, the cover is made from an old t-shirt and the wood is machined from oak

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TV too... Big?

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This tiny robot cat will blow on your coffee to cool it off

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Robot on the run!

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Guernsey - Wikipedia

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MagSafe-like detachable Ethernet cable debuts — Cat6 cables available up to 10 GbE

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Ping Clock

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Bidet Follow Up Review

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Robot Leaf Blower

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A new Home Controls screensaver turns the Pixel tablet into a smart home control panel - The Verge

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Light Bulb DB - Find the Best Smart Lights

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AFRAID - Movie Trailer

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Brian Jackson on Threads - $20 on eBay and now I have a fully functioning 10” in-wall touch panel for my home automation and it’s powered over Ethernet. Thanks Crestron!

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Aqua Flower- Smart Flower Watering System

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Put the DVD logo in the Corner

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Elite HTS Assists Spider-Man Fanatic on Amazing $2.5M Home Theater

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Using ChatGPT In Your Smart Home for $0.01 a MONTH?! #homeassistant #chatgpt #openai

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Own a Weather Station? We Want Your Data!

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here's an animation emulating what it's like to see motion on high-framerate monitors

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Virtual Assistants

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Cinco MIDI Organiser

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10.1″ QUAD CORE TABLET, CASE AND KEYBOARD, ANDROID 7.1 1G/8GB, CAMERA | Proscan

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GitHub - dotMorten/MiniSmartDisplay: An ePaper device powered by .NET

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Paint Ball Security Cam

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Tom's Takeover | The home cinema design podcast

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Automatic Lawn Treatment & Smart Sprinkler System | OtO Lawn

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Mowrator S1: Smart Remote Control Slope Vacuum Mower

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TJ's Dying Doorbell

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World Server Throwing Championship (WSTC) 2024

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Genius Garage Door Sensor

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ASCII Theater

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Davolink Minions Kevin Wi-Fi 6E Router - Elevate Your Connectivity Experience in 2023 with High-Speed Performance Gaming Router - Secure Travel WiFi Router

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(Video) Hiding the Robot Vacuum with Ikea Furniture

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A Remote with All the Buttons!

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Clark Griswold Christmas Vacation decoration dummy

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QuickDraw

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The Clapper: Yes, that one. - YouTube

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Lovesac - Sactionals with StealthTech Sound + Charge

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Cursed VoIP

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M5Stack Launches the M5Dial, a Swish IoT Rotary Encoder with a Built-In Color Touchscreen Display - Hackster.io

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Brew Spider

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Amerisense GaN 65W 6Amp 3-Port USB Wall Outlet, 15 Amp Tamper-Resistant Receptacle with 2 USB Type C & 1 Type A Port, USB Charger for USB-C Laptop/iPhone/Samsung/LG, UL Listed

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TalentCell Mini UPS Uninterrupted Power Supply 27000mAh 98Wh Lithium ion Backup Battery with DC 12V/9V/5V Output for Wireless Router, Modem, LED Light, CCTV Camera, Smartphone and More

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Irrigreen

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Mylo - The World’s First Virtual Lifeguard

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Light Switch Plate by RJR - Thingiverse

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SSH Comic

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MSG Sphere

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Tempest Bird Deterrent Accessory

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Ultrawide Touch & Non-Touch Displays | Avocor L Series 21:9

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Car in 4K

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DIY haptic input knob: BLDC motor + round LCD

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@victor@tooters.org - If you keep scratching the HomePod....

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Bell Satellite Dish Gets Clever Makeover as SpaceX Starlink Mount

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DIY Smart Organizer

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Reddit - Camo defeats CodeProject

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RoomGPT - Dream Room Generator

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Sea of Segments - Will Gallia

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A look back at Microsoft's 1999 smart home: What it got right and what it got wrong

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This inventive window blind based LG speaker will impress anyone who sees it in action

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Evolution of Smart Devices

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Exclusive: these are the new Sonos Era speakers - The Verge

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TubesZB (@tubeszb@home.social) - Great video from @homeassistant showing real time zigbee interference from USB3 and SSDs

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automated_house on TikTok

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Using your cat to put underground cable : funny

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Chris Pirillo (@ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social) - Rare photo of a remote control from the 1970s

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YoLink Products - Longest Range, By Far!

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The GlüxKind Smart Stroller

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Arduino Shirt Folder

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Trash Train

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HomeTech.social

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TJ's Wire Stretcher

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Getting Title at 12:14

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TinyTV 2 is a $49 video player with a 1 inch display and a retro design (crowdfunding) - Liliputing

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First $800,000 Samsung The Wall Residential microLED Installed

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New Ring Windowbell spotted in the wild: combine with a smart window latch to automate your assignations.

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Netflix Commercial Curtain

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Winners announced of the 2022 CEDIA Awards, EMEA

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Hidden Mantel

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r/interestingasfuck - I built my dream ‘80s Video “Store” in my basement over 4 long years for family, friends and creative endeavors. Enjoy! #mondovideo #atl

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@ChristianSelig - Okay y'all, I think I found the best idea for the Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pro. I added a cat that lives up there like a tamagotchi and just hangs out and does cute stuff as you browse Reddit in my app (Apollo).

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UInnovations: WiFiman Wizard (Early Access)

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The ECHO IV Home Computer: 50 Years Later - CHM

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Please, Lego, let this engineer bring your computer brick to life

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Zip Tie Organizer(2PCS)-Light Plastic Cable tie Holder without Unnecessary Waste and Simple Use-Reusable Cable Tie Organizer and Glow in the Dark

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Possessed Fridge

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Amazon’s Alexa Apps Are Hard to Find. Perhaps Ads Will Help

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This solar-powered smart lock is also a video doorbell

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This Is the Picture Astronomers Have Been Waiting For

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@TKDano on Twitter - Someone in my neighborhood made a Little Free Blockbuster and it’s so cute!

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r/homeautomation - What switch would I need to replace the front porch/driveway dual switch here?

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Luba Robot Lawn Mower

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Ikea announces record player that might actually make it to stores this time

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CePro Oldest Gear Contest

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Twitter: @adam_safaoui - Trees being knocked down and cars being pushed over #ONstorm #ottnews @weathernetwork

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AR Floorplan Walk-through

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Power Strip Surge Protector, SUPERDANNY 22 AC Multiple Outlets, 2100 Joules, 1875W/15A, 6.5Ft Flat Plug Heavy Duty Extension Cord for Home, Office, Dorm, Gaming Room

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Eséguo voice assistant | Wall mounted devices | Ekinex

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Canairi - a playful design solution to a healthy indoor climate

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Here’s what happens when cops pull over a driverless Cruise vehicle

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Crestron Virtual Control Server Software - Crestron Electronics, Inc.

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r/Ubiquiti - WhiteClaw 6 Mesh!?! Apparently my Fiancé thinks so.

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Unity Systems Home Manager

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r/homeautomation - Toto toilet + Switchbot flush + button + voice control

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ST. LOUIS TV MOUNTING 📺 on Instagram: “HAPPY FRIDAY!! & s/o to the video that put me in a position to make 6 figures and QUIT my 9-5 😆 , thanks for all the support from EVERYONE…”

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RJ45 Dust Plugs

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Ring Solar Powered Wall Light | Outdoor Smart Home Security

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Walabot DIY: The Only Visual Stud Finder

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WAAY PowerDoor

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mui: Calm Design

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Scrypted

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‎HomeLog for HomeKit

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IoT Hacking and Rickrolling My High School District | WhiteHoodHacker

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@NathanBLawrence - I am a connoisseur of weird robot vacuum issues, because they all seem to get at least one thing slightly wrong, but this might be my favorite. I discover this happened almost every morning

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DIY Screensaver - @PabloRochat on Twitter

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Nestflix

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Amazon made a $55 soap dispenser that reminds you to wash for 20 seconds | Engadget

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Playdate. Pre-orders begin July 29.

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Louis Vuitton’s $2,890 light-up speaker looks like something Thanos would steal - The Verge

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How Loki built a different reality with retro hardware - The Verge

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Police ticket driver for sticking Starlink terminal on car’s hood - The Verge

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Introducing Kaybl: The New Service That Bundles Your Favorite Content for One Flat Monthly Fee!

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Here’s how the Internet Archive digitizes 78rpm records

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Watch the first footage of a helicopter on Mars

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UniFi® Design Center

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EF4 Tornado Newnan GA 03-26-21 Actual Footage

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GluePen Cordless Hot Glue Gun | Bosch DIY

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R650 | RUCKUS R650 Indoor Access Point | CommScope

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Zoom Escaper lets you sabotage your own meetings with audio problems, crying babies, and more

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Hydroponics & Growers - Advance Grow Tents - AC Infinity

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Crestron Electronics, Inc.

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Perseverance Rover’s Descent and Touchdown on Mars (Official NASA Video)

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Starlink

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A lawyer using Zoom had to let a judge know that he wasn’t a cat after inadvertently activating a face filter

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CE Pro Podcast #39: How to Enable Change & Embrace Service Business - CEPRO

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Netgate - pfSense Routers and Firewalls

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The Right Stuff

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HomeKit Helper - Networking

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Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable." - @kobunheat

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The Onion’s Guide To Streaming Services

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Email a dumpster fire

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Channels App - Custom Raspberry Pi Image

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Ring Doorbells Are Being Recalled for This Frightening Reason

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BioVYZR 1.0 - Personal Air Purifying Shield

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SwitchBot Smart Switch Button Pusher

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Three Tools to Boost Your Productivity - Residential Systems

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Lume Cube, Inc.

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Function101 Button Remote for AppleTV

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HomeTech Happy Hour 2020

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Sense

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Vimcal

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Sensibo: Smart Air Conditioner | Control Your AC With Your Phone

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Grammarly's advanced features are coming to Google Docs

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Amazon Wand

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Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought.

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How to Watch 'Hamilton' on Disney Plus

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Speedtest CLI - Internet connection measurement for developers

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TextExpander – Productivity App | Text Expander

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Satellite MLS: A Revolutionary Projection Technology Advancement from Digital Projection - Digital Projection

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‎Airr - Highlight podcasts

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Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet on Apple TV+

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SmartDraw - Create Flowcharts, Floor Plans, and Other Diagrams on Any Device

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Quarantini – BlackWire

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Josh.ai Inaugurates the Politically Correct Smart Home

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Apple releases iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4 with trackpad support - 9to5Mac

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Before and After - 24 Hour Emergency Veterinary Clinic

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Custom AV News

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Ferrule Crimping Tool Kit - Sopoby Ferrule Crimper Plier (AWG 28-7) w/ 1800pcs Wire Ferrules Kit Wire Ends Terminals

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The Virtual Production of The Mandalorian, Season One

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Working magic clock inspired by Harry Potter

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HomeTech.fm Podcast on Spotify

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That one time a company flew me halfway across the country because they were having intermittent telco issues that no one could figure out... 🤦‍♂️ - @mdoering on Twitter

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The Apple TV remote is so bad that a Swiss TV company developed a normal replacement

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Redesigned Home App

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Uncle Rob Tech Tips

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LEGO Mini Rack - Steve Holdstock on Twitter

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Certified Cable Tie Technician

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This 1967 educational film predicts the technology we’d be using in the future

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HBO Contest Prize Is a Cardboard Box Where You Can Watch TV Alone | Digital Trends

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Book - The Start of the Digital Revolution: SIGSALY - Secure Digital Voice Communications in World War II

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A Clever Door Sensor That Plays the Bass Riff From 'Seinfeld' When Someone Enters the Room

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Tesla + iOS + NFC via Tesletter on Twitter

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It's that time of year again... -Glen Akins on Twitter

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Westinghouse All Electric House

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AmpliFi Teleport App

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Man wearing TV on head caught on camera leaving old TVs on Virginia front porches

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Kid hides from police in Bend, Oregon

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elago R1 Intelli Case Black Magnet Technology Anti-Slip Lanyard Included Heavy Shock Absorption for Apple TV Siri Remote 4K / 4th Generation

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1990s Technology Rug

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Amazon’s Home Surveillance Company Is Putting Suspected Petty Thieves in its Advertisements

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AmpliFi Teleport

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Meet the One.

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Apollo 11 HoloLens 2 Demo | Microsoft Build 2019 | Unreal Engine

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Princeton IoT Inspector lets you see what your smart home devices are up to

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Coda | A doc as powerful as an app.

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LaMetric

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Smart Toilet Seat Could Monitor Your Health Through Your Butt-Cheeks | Digital Trends

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LG Waterfall Display at ISE

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OLED Digital Signage

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TVTemplate.com

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Controller for HomeKit

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