Smart products are everywhere you look these days. Wander the aisles of any brick-and-mortar (or online) retailer and you’ll probably see numerous smart devices designed to make living your best life ...

That's when I started researching and discovered something incredible. I could turn my old Chromebook into a smart home hub ...

Macworld Apple’s smart home efforts have generally lagged behind its rivals. While Amazon and Google have been putting out ...

Discover Apple’s groundbreaking smart home hub with AI, Face ID, and customizable features. Launching spring 2026, it’s a game-changer!

It’s official: The Google Home Hub, a smart speaker with a screen, is here, and it enters into a smart display market that is getting very crowded lately. Everyone seems to want to sell you a screen ...

Powered by a two-way system with a 2.5-inch woofer and a 0.8-inch tweeter, this smart speaker is claimed to offer three times ...

The Hubitat Elevation smart-home hub promises more privacy than the competition by keeping all of the data it needs to power your smart home stored locally. The rules needed for your door sensor to ...

At first glance, the Hubitat Elevation struck me as a pretty standard smart home hub. It has Zigbee and Z-Wave built in so it can communicate with a variety of connected gadgets. You can set up rules ...

Apple is preparing to introduce its highly anticipated smart home hub, the Apple HomePod Hub, a device designed to compete directly with established players like Google and Amazon. Expected to launch ...

Swedish furniture and accessory store Ikea today announced the upcoming launch of the Dirigera smart hub, which supports Matter. Matter is a universal smart home automation connectivity standard that ...

IKEA’s DIRIGERA hub has received a major update, adding Matter 1.3 support. This means it can now connect with water leak sensors and energy-measuring plugs from other brands. The update rolls out ...

When life gets chaotic, it can be convenient to have all your smart home devices operating on the same wavelength. Achieving this sort of harmony sometimes requires a hub to consolidate the myriad ...