
GE Lighting is looking to branch out in the coming year, with the Savant-owned brand taking its first steps into the professionally installed smart-shade business.
Following their debut back in September during the CEDIA 2024 conference, GE’s Proseo lights and shades are taking another bow at CES alongside GE Lighting’s new café lights, dimmer switches, an

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Schlage, a leading home security brand, announced two new smart locks at CES today: the Schlage Sense Pro smart deadbolt and the Schlage Arrive smart Wi-Fi deadbolt. Both locks are designed to simplify home access and improve integration with smart home systems.
The Schlage Sense Pro smart deadbolt features Matter-over-Thread support, enabling integration w

Getting out of bed to turn off the lights is as annoying as it gets, but this smart button pusher from SwitchBot can help solve that problem in a blink. Even better, the SwitchBot Smart Switch is now just $20 on Amazon, down 30 percent from its usual price.
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The HyperSpace TrackPad Pro is one of a handful of technology devices that I like, but it might not be quite ready for prime time.
The concept is simple enough: It’s a mammoth haptic trackpad that’s primarily designed for people who don’t already own one. The external trackpad connects

Aqara announced an array of new smart home devices at CES 2025, including its first in-wall touchscreen control panel. The Matter-compatible controller works with the company’s new dimmers, switches, and sensors to deliver Aqara’s most advanced suite of hardware for in-home lighting, climate control, home security, and power management.
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About seven years after the HDMI 2.1 specification was introduced, the HDMI Forum has announced the next generation: HDMI 2.2, which will require new cables to take advantage of its most high-performance features. It will not require a new connector, though, thankfully.
Though the HDMI Forum is officially calling the new specification HDMI 2.2, the accompan

CES 2025 officially begins on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, and we’re excited to see all the newfangled consumer tech products that are slated to be announced. But we already have a good idea of what the show has in store when it comes to computer monitors.
Leaks and early announcements hint that CES 2025 will see the debut of several pixel-dense OLED panels, a

Tackling climate change is a team sport, and we all have to be in it together if we want to win. So, not only should we hold companies to high standards as far as mitigating their environmental impact, we should also laud them when they make positive steps in the right direction.
With almost 190 million laptops expected to ship throughout 2024, laptop manuf

Sure, Govee has some new smart lights to unveil at CES this year, but what this smart lighting manufacturer really wants to talk about is, of course, the buzzword of the show: AI.
From its AI-powered gaming lights to its light-scene-creating AI chatbot, Govee clearly sees its budding AI efforts as the best way to set itself apart in the crowded smart light