Ecobee’s Family Accounts put limits on smart home control

Posted on 05/02/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Ring isn't the only company giving you better smart home privacy controls. Ecobee is trotting out a Family Accounts feature that lets up to 15 people in your household control thermostats and other gear without having to hand over your sign-in detai...

Ecobee smart thermostat with glass display pops up on Lowe’s website

Posted on 30/05/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Ecobee is reportedly working on a new SmartThermostat and SmartSensors. The items haven't been announced yet, but they're listed on the Lowe's website. The specific product pages have been removed, but Zatz Not Funny managed to spot the details befor...

Oppo promises stable photos from smaller smartphones

Posted on 23/02/2016 by Jon Fingas

Numerous smartphones have image stabilization, but they're usually large, chunky or both, and for good reason: the optical (lens-based) stabilization they typically use chews up a lot of space. Oppo, however, believes it has a better way. Its new Sma...

Parrot’s Flower Power monitors plant’s environment, sends data to the cloud

Posted on 07/01/2013 by Richard Lai

For a company that usually makes Bluetooth audio products and quadcopters, this sure is a weird product coming from Parrot, but we dig it (pun intended). The French company has announced its Flower Power at CES, and as you can probably guess from the name, 'tis a smart sensor that you can insert into a pot to monitor the plant's environmental variables: sunlight, humidity, temperature and fertilizer (but no acidity?). The data is sent to the cloud via Bluetooth Smart for analysis before coming back to your mobile device, and you'll be able to look up Parrot's "library of thousands of plants" for the extra care for your herbal friends. No price has been announced for the Flower Power just yet, but it'll definitely be out at some point this year.

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