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By Catherine Shu When Google Home was unveiled, many people immediately noted the smart speaker’s striking resemblance to a home fragrance diffuser. Now there’s a smart home fragrance diffuser that looks like a smart speaker. Pium, a self-described “next-generation smart diffuser,” is currently participating in Samsung Electronic’s Creative Square incubator program. Visitors to… Read More…

By Brian Bennett The Roxxter robot vacuum also watches home when you’re away. …read more Source:: cnet Camcorders

By Devin Coldewey Launching a product and company from scratch is hard, as fresh-faced entrepreneurs and Kickstarter successes often learn to their chagrin. And it turns out even heavy hitters like Andy Rubin and his mobile startup Essential have unpleasant lessons to learn — in this case, about how even a small detail like a…

By John Biggs Have you ever wanted to print an animated image? Well now you (almost) can. A maker named Abhishek Singh has created an instant camera that outputs a little box that contains a Raspberry Pi connect to a PiTFT screen. When you take a picture the camera transmits a short video to the…

By Devin Coldewey Soft robots are a major area of research right now, but the general paradigm seems to be that you pump something (a muscle or tube) full of something else (air, fluid) causing it to change its shape. But a robot from Swiss roboticists does the opposite: its little muscles tense when the…

By Megan Wollerton Samsung’s new QuickDrive washing machine claims to clean just as well — in half the time. …read more Source:: cnet Camcorders

By Andrew Gebhart With increased flexibility and lots of suction power, Samsung’s latest wants to make cleaning up quick and easy. …read more Source:: cnet Camcorders

By Jon Porter Announced at IFA 2017, the SC-GA10 is Panasonic’s first foray into the world of smart speakers. In case you’ve been living under a rock right now, smart speakers are the latest craze right now, with manufacturers all over the world rushing to produce speakers that are capable of listening, and responding to,…

OnePlus has launched the OnePlus Student Program, which offers a 10 percent discount to the OnePlus 5 and its accessories. To avail the discount, students will need to complete three simple assignments. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Megan Wollerton Ditch your loud washer for good — Bosch says its HomeProfessional WAY287W5 is oh so quiet. …read more Source:: cnet Camcorders

There are two new BlackBerry phones in the works, and TCL has now dropped hints about the first model. Can a sturdy, water-resistant phone with a long-lasting battery have any place in the market right now? …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Richard Trenholm The blocky speaker takes on rivals such as the Google Home, Amazon Echo and Apple’s HomePod. …read more Source:: cnet Cell Phones

By Darrell Etherington Google is hoping to catch up with Alexa’s reach by putting its Assistant on a wide range of third-party hardware. At IFA, Google announced that it’s going to be putting the Assistant on partner speakers, appliances, connected cameras, and much more. That’s likely to be good for both the voice-powered assistant market,…

By Matt Burns The home button is headed to the trash bin if a report by Bloomberg is to be believed. According to the report, Apple is ditching the button to make room for a larger screen in one version of the next iPhone. Instead of a home button, users will perform actions using on-screen…

By Lori Grunin Acer’s Predator rollouts include a funky new flagship gaming desktop and a mouse that may save you some ammo. …read more Source:: cnet Camcorders