The Kinect finds a second life helping rehab patients heal at home
Reflexion Health's VERA Solution uses the Kinect to guide patients through rehab exercises from their own home.
Elgato’s Eve Degree is a pretty little temperature sensor
Elgato's Eve Degree is a small and sleek temperature and humidity sensor that only works with Apple devices.
Sense Home Energy Monitor review
How inefficient is your fridge? What’s the biggest energy suck in your home? The Sense Home Energy Monitor can tell you all in an easy-to-use app -- and hopefully help you lower your electric bill.
Prefabricated passive homes keep you comfy year-round with almost no energy
Passive houses and prefabricated houses both make sense in terms of cost savings. Ecocor and RPA have put them together.
Stick the Wi-Fi-enabled Cook Key in your Thermomix for recipes from around the world
The Cook Key makes the Thermomix into a Wi-Fi-enabled device that has access to thousands of recipes from around the world.
Future smart homes may be autonomous, and make decisions for you
Legrand is working with Samsung and other partners to make the smart home more autonomous, so it makes decisions for you.
U.K.’s Hive brings its thermostat and other smart devices to the U.S.
Backed by British Gas, Hive is a smart-home device maker that wants to crack the U.S. market with its thermostat and other devices.
Nightingale Sleep System Review
With two separate devices that plug into your outlets, the Nightingale immerses you in white noise or sounds like falling rain. It has some smart features, but its $299 price tag is a wake-up call.
Don’t DIY — Lowe’s Iris offers $15-a-month professional monitoring
Lowe's wants to make professional home monitoring more affordable with its $15-a-month plan via its Iris smart-home system.
DrinkMate Carbonated Soda Maker review
SodaStream may be the first name in home carbonation, but DrinkMate goes beyond H2O, letting you add bubbles to almost any beverage
Momo is a smart lamp that has it all, from facial recognition to voice activation
The Momo is a smart-home hub that's also a lamp, a camera with facial recognition, and an artificial intelligence assistant.
Light up your house for less with our illuminating guide to LED bulbs
If you rely on watt equivalencies to pick out your lightbulbs, you're not seeing the whole picture. Here are some other factors to consider.
Paint it black? 6 online tools that help you visualize, choose your new wall color
Picking out paint colors can be daunting. Luckily, there are many online tools to help show you how your walls will look in different hues.
Connected indoor grill ensures your meals are always cooked to perfection
you can cook food at a precise temperature, then sear it in the cooker, by setting a few parameters on the accompanying iOS app.
Say bonjour to Siri with the Genie, a speaker that supports foreign languages
The Genie is a Bluetooth speaker that lets you use Siri or Google Now in more than 50 different languages and dialects.
Need to loosen up? Let the author of ‘Cork Dork’ help you find the best wine apps
Bianca Bosker went from tech writer to wine expert in 18 months, so we thought she was the perfect person to help pick out the best wine apps.
The Mine lets you look at its furniture from every angle with 3D imaging
The Mine is a relaunched ecommerce site for furniture and decor that uses 3D imaging and services to make online shopping easier.
The ultrasonic dryer can take clothes from wet to ready to wear in 20 minutes
The ultrasonic dryer is super-efficient and super fast, drying clothes much more quickly while using five times less energy.
Charlize Theron weaponizes fists and footwear in the ‘Atomic Blonde’ trailer
In Atomic Spy, Charlize Theron plays an MI6 agent during the fall of the Berlin Wall who fights her way past every bad guy.
Cinder Precision Grill review
The Cinder Precision Grill promise to give you restaurant-worthy results, even if your culinary skills don’t go beyond making toast or boiling water.
A town is trapped under a blanket of fog in Stephen King’s 'The Mist'
A fog forces a town to stick together in the aftermath of a violent crime in a new Spike series adapted from a Stephen King's "The Mist."
Professional home stager Taylor Spellman picks her favorite interior design apps
Yours, Mine, or Ours star Taylor Spellman picks her favorite mobile apps for interior design and remodeling.
Lift-Bit transformable sofa, seating system is now available for pre-order
The Lift-Bit modular, transformable sofa system has entered full production and is now available for pre-order.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman files lawsuit against DOE over ceiling fans
Rules for ceiling-fan efficiency were supposed to go into effect; the Department of Energy pushed them back. AG Eric Schneiderman is suing.
You won’t even need to get a friend to water your plants with this vertical garden (Update)
Want a garden that takes care of itself? Plug & Plant is fairly automated; just add water, and it uses its sensors to make sure everything's taken care of.
Dyson V8 Absolute review
Cordless vacuums mean you don’t have to get tangled up as you clean but battery life can be a problem. The Dyson V8 is an improvement over the V6 in this aspect, as well as a few more.
Don’t wing it: Here’s the best way to make chicken wings, according to science
America's Test Kitchen's Cook's Science explains the best way to make chicken wings for the Super Bowl 2017.
Need a light? Here are the most amazing lamps in the observable universe
Designers are doing amazing things with lighting these days. Here, we rounded up 12 of our favorites, from GE's wears to those of Philips.
PicoBrew’s newest beer-making machine is easier to use and costs under $300
The PicoBrew Pico Model C is the company's newest version of its homebrewing appliance. It lets you make beer quickly and easily.
No scrubs? These gadgets that make cleaning a little easier
There were lots of cleaning gadgets on display at the 2017 International Home and Housewares Show in Chicago.
Gadgets that will help you drink like a pro from the Home and Housewares Show
There were all kinds of drinking-related gadgets at the 2017 International Home and Housewares Show in Chicago.
Our favorite fun kitchen gadgets from the Home and Housewares show
We picked some of our favorite cooking gadgets from the 2017 International Home and Housewares Show in Chicago.
Roundup of cool coffee devices from the International Home and Housewares Show
The 2017 International Home and Housewares Show showed us that the cold brew coffee trend is definitely here to stay.
From chopping to mixing to slow-cooking, the All-Clad Prep&Cook can make your meal
The All-Clad Prep&Cook is a multicooker that lets you mix, cook, crush ice, and perform about nine other functions, all in one machine.