Fuel their curiosity for less — save $28 on the Amazon Echo Dot Kids smart speaker

With parental controls, an extended warranty, and a one-year subscription to Amazon Kids+, this is a deal worth taking.

How AI broke the smart home in 2025 
How AI broke the smart home in 2025 

This morning, I asked my Alexa-enabled Bosch coffee machine to make me a coffee. Instead of running my routine, it told me it couldn’t do that. Ever since I upgraded to Alexa Plus, Amazon’s generative-AI-powered voice assistant, it has failed to reliably run my coffee routine, coming up with a different excuse almost every time […]

Your Nest cameras just got better at identifying faces and pets

Google’s plans to level up your smart home experience aren’t limited to bringing Gemini to your devices. The company is also upgrading its Google Home app to make your Nest camera footage far more useful. According to a new Nest help forum post, the la…

Want a home security camera without a subscription? I test smart home tech for a living, and these are my 3 recommendations

These feature-packed home security cameras offer crisp 4K footage, solar charging, local storage for your videos, and AI smarts too – with no extra fees.

Birdfy’s Hum Bloom captures 120fps slow motion footage of hummingbirds
Birdfy’s Hum Bloom captures 120fps slow motion footage of hummingbirds

Ahead of CES 2026 getting underway in early January, Birdfy has announced two new camera-equipped smart bird feeders that can identify and capture visitors in slow motion. The Birdfy Hum Bloom is specifically designed to attract and record hummingbirds using a nectar bulb that mimics flowers they’re naturally attracted to, while the Feeder Vista introduces […]

Google Gemini is now heading to fridges — and it might actually be useful

Ready for Gemini to take over your fridge? Based on Samsung’s new announcement, you might want it.

One of the top premium robovacs I tested in 2025 is a whopping 45% off – grab the Ecovacs Deebot X8 Pro Omni now for only AU$1,378

My biggest issue with the Ecovacs Deebot X8 Pro Omni was its price tag, and that’s not as much of a problem with this huge discount direct from the manufacturer, bringing it to its lowest AU price yet.

This Narwal robot vacuum has an impressive feature list, but just doesn’t do as it’s told

The Narwal Freo Z10 Ultra could have been great, but erratic performance and ‘smart’ features that are anything but make it ultra-frustrating.