Foods like french fries and fried chicken sure are delicious, but with all the excess calories, oils, and carbs that go into them, they aren’t very good for you. Now, instead of going to McDonalds or KFC, there’s a way to fry up delicious foods with just a fraction of the calories. What is this magical mechanism? It’s an air fryer,… Continue reading "The Best Air Fryers of 2018 to Make Fried Snacks Healthier"
When it comes to knowing who’s at your door before you actually open it, there’s nothing better than a video doorbell. After all, peepholes can get smudged, wet, and physically blocked, which means you may not know who’s on the other side, be it be a relative, your neighbor, the pizza delivery guy, or a total stranger. A video doorbell… Continue reading "The Best Video Doorbells to Secure Your Home in 2018"
You know the old trope about how a vacuum is a terrible present? Well, whoever wrote those jokes never saw vacuums like these. Amazon is blowing out all sorts of accessories for the holidays, and some very popular vacuum cleaners are getting major discounts. Whether you’re buying it as a very practical gift for the neat freak in your life… Continue reading "Amazon Has Some Killer Deals on Vacuums Through the Holiday"
When your older sibling was one of the best-selling robot vacuum cleaners on Amazon, you have big shoes to fill. Luckily, the latest automated cleaning contraption from Ecovacs has been more than up to the challenge. The Chinese company has given the original robotic vacuum cleaning team at Roomba quite the run for its money, and now, it’s heating up the… Continue reading "Ecovac Deebot N79S Alexa and Google Assistant Robot Vacuum"
“Alexa, arm!” Starting Thursday, December 13, with those two words Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant can activate your security system and recruit additional Alexa-supported devices in your home. The Alexa development team announced a new Security Panel Controller API in the Alexa Skills Kit. U.S. Alexa customers who also have a supported security system from ADT, Ring, Abode, and Scout Alarm can start using… Continue reading "Alexa Gains New Security System Status and Arming Voice Skills"
Porch pirates in Jersey City, New Jersey better watch out. Amazon has teamed up with cops there to track down the thieves using dummy packages. Data shows that as many as 20 percent of online shoppers in the U.S. have suffered at the hands of criminals who steal packages left in front of their homes by delivery personnel. The New Jersey… Continue reading "Cops Go After Porch Pirates With Fake Amazon Boxes and GPS Trackers"
Amazon The smallest Amazon Go store to date has opened in downtown Seattle. The new retail site covers just 450 square feet of floor space, making it a quarter the size of the first Amazon Go store that opened in the same city in January 2018. The compact cashier-free store is on the sixth floor of the Macy’s building, where… Continue reading "Amazon Go Tests Compact Design Ahead of Possible Expansion"
There is a real battle to change how consumers get their groceries raging right now, as exemplified by Amazon’s structural changes at Whole Foods, Walmart’s new push to deliver groceries, and Amazon’s cashless convenience stores. A new Boston-based company called Takeoff Technologies wants to occupy the sweet spot between all those innovations by bringing artificial intelligence-driven, robot-enhanced order fulfillment to grocery stores… Continue reading "This New Company is Using A.I.-Enabled Robots to Augment Groceries"
