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High tech indoor garden lets you grow cannabis at home

While previous hydroponic growing systems were bulky, unattractive, and always ran the risk of making your entire apartment smell like a grow house, a new startup looks to change all that.

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New Nest security camera watches your home and sends text alerts

Nest Labs announced preorders for an outdoor security camera that records everything it sees and hears, live streaming the footage and storing it in the cloud for 30 days.

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Sonos brings its Wi-Fi speakers to the masses in first-ever retail store

The 4,200-square-foot space, the first brick-and-mortar store for the California-based company, offers an immersive, high-design experience meant to entice consumers.

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Startup lets you take home tech for test drive

If you’re an Internet of Things skeptic or look askance at fitness trackers and connected home products of all sorts, then Grover, an online marketplace that lets consumers try out devices before they commit to a purchase, may be for you.

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New app aims to simplify home selling and buying process

The app helps bring some transparency to the selling and buying process, including allowing digital access to information about bids from prospective buyers.

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Can startup Tushy wash away Americans’ discomfort with bidets?

"Did you know that Americans use 57 sheets of TP on average every single day? And that it takes 37 gallons of water to make one TP roll?"

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Samsung's designer Serif TV now available in the U.S.

Designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have collaborated with Samsung on the provocative Serif TV, a flat-screen with an I-shaped frame, attachable legs, and a fabric panel to mask connectors in the back. They call it a "furniture TV."

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Sublime smart home updates the traditional ranch

Another day, another swoon-worthy modern home from California—not that we mind. Built around a century-old oak in the Santa Lucia mountains of Carmel, CA, Ranch OH reimagines the traditional ranch house as a stunning modern retreat.

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Amazon Prime Day 2016: best deals for the home

Prime Day, a.k.a Amazon’s "Black Friday in July" shopping event returns for a second year today, promising a shot at good deals for existing and new members of the Amazon Prime service. We’ll be updating our best deal picks for the home all day.

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Hotel minibars get a chic, high-tech update

Offered in green and terracotta hues—or in a birch-plywood, oak, ash, or walnut veneer—the modern cabinets were inspired by the shutters on classic Spanish homes. They’re offered in small and large sizes.

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This Las Vegas house has the best nuclear bunker of all time

How many nuclear bunkers could accurately be described as fun?

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Ask Flipped: Help! There’s a fire in my decorative wall cutout

How do I put it out? And what if it melts all these marshmallows I have sitting around?

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Naked Donald Trump statues appear in five major cities

How nice for those cities.

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Which Mars neighborhood do you want to live in?

Better chose now, before they start to gentrify.

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New robotic furniture system transforms tiny apartments

Today, designer Yves Behar of fuseproject and the MIT Media Lab unveiled Ori, a new line of furniture solutions that lets you transform a studio space into a full apartment with the push of a button. Architectural robotics, y’all.

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Smart home tech drives eco-conscious Aspen home

This polished abode in Aspen, Colorado offers a tremendous indoor-outdoor experience. Plus a whole lot of eco-friendly cred.

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3D print your own speakers with this DIY kit

U.K. company Kitronik recently unveiled a kit for folks—largely engineers and designers—who like to tinker and are interested in assembling mini sound systems from a set of 3D-printed parts.

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Smart baby monitor will make your kid go to sleep

It uses light, ambient noises, and lullabies.

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These ceramic wireless charging trays fuse high-tech and high design

Created in collaboration with Italian ceramics company Bitossi Ceramiche, the Charge Trays, as they are so aptly named, are slip-cast ceramic, and come in a variety of sizes and colors.

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Apple's all-in-one home tech app is coming

The Home app will act as a one-stop hub for all of a user's HomeKit-enabled products, including connected thermostats, locks, lighting, security cameras, and more.

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Alexa may soon be able to ask you if you are mad at it

Because nothing calms people down like having a robot tell them their emotions.

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Why yachts may be the original smart homes

At the intersection of energy-efficiency and homey comfort, sailboats offer valuable insights into the future design of smart home infrastructure.

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Is the Amazon Echo turning your kid into a jerk?

Or is your kid simply able to distinguish between robots and people?

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Classic Video Game Company Atari to Make Smart Home Devices

The new gadgets will include everything from kid-trackers to connected pet accessories, travel tools, and more.

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Talking to Plants Is Now Possible With This Device

They still never ask us how we're doing, though.

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This Company Wants to Mess Up Drones That Come Near Your House

The perfect thing for prisons, the paranoid, and people who just hate drones.

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New Smart Bike Tracks Itself to Deter Thieves

If VanMoof can't track and return your stolen bike within two weeks, they'll replace it.

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Clothes Folding Machines Are on the Horizon

And operating them only takes as much effort as folding clothes.

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How Those Friendly Digital Assistants Will Make Money Off You

Tech companies create digital assistants to generate revenue in two key ways you might not have realized.

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Could Virtual Reality Change the Way Architects Design?

VRtisan's system combines handheld motion sensors and virtual reality headsets to bring designers' schemes to life and help consider door, window, wall, and furniture placement.

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Smart Pet Toy Doubles as Camera to Spy on Pets

Now you can play with your dog while you're at work.

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Sony Unveils Portable Home Tech Entertainment System During NYCxDesign

Items from the entire collection, which includes a wireless speaker, portable projector, and smart lightbulbs, are available now for purchase at the MoMA Design Store and online.

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'Smart' Bottle Opener Texts Your Friends When You Open a Beer

You know, if that's something you're interested in.

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Turn Anything Into a Remote Control With This Device

With one simple gadget, you can bend your house to your will.

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Cantilevered Speaker Doesn't Look Like It Should Be Able to Stay Upright

The speaker looks like it's floating.

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Kid Creates His Own Smart Home System For $150

It has an emergency party mode and can pour him a cup of coffee.

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Considerate Fire Alarm Texts You When Your House in on Fire

You can also turn off the beeping from your phone, which is amazing.

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Product Designers, This Device Wants to Help You Build a Home Assembly Line

The FormBox vacuum forming machine wants to help solve the home factory puzzle

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