The Smart Home — When Will People Get It?
Smart Home Tech No Longer Just a Luxury
Remote security monitors, thermostats and other smart gadgets that adjusts to customers’ habits have been mostly the domain of the well-off and techies.
The Smartest Bulb in the Box Will Talk to Your Smartphone. It's Affordable, Too!
More than a century after Thomas Edison got into the light bulb business, his bright idea is getting brainy.
Engineers at GE, the company Edison founded, have helped develop an affordable LED light bulb that can talk to its owners’ tablets and smartphones. The bulb, which starts at just under $15, contains a chip that can wirelessly connect to the Internet and communicate with users via a mobile app called Wink.