What if your drinking water didn't come from old, rusty apartment building pipes or from a plastic bottle that's going to end up in a landfill ... or in the ocean? What if your drinking water (and coffee?) literally just came out of thin air? Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Water, Water Conservation, Kitchen, Appliances, Coffee, Kickstarter| Around The Home
Dyson says that its new PencilVac is the slimmest cordless vacuum cleaner in the world, and by the looks of it, that sounds about right. It's also the company's most powerful model to date. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Dyson, Vacuum cleaner| Around The Home
Nobody likes hearing a mosquito somewhere in their bedroom, without being able to see where it is. Well, the Bzigo Iris tracks and highlights mozzies, so you can swat them. It's now 50% cheaper, and doesn't require a Wi-Fi connection. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Mosquito, Laser, Tracking, Pests, Insect, 2025 Updates| Around The Home
Long hair can be a giant pain when it comes to robot vacuums, winding around the main and side brushes until things grind to a halt. Narwal's affordable Freo Pro robovac and mop comprehensively solves this problem with a pair of smart innovations. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Vacuum cleaner, Wet and dry vacuum cleaner, Appliances, Cleaning, Reviews| Around The Home
Ultraviolet light is well-known for its ability to kill germs, including ones that cause food to spoil. And while there doesn't tend to be any food-preserving UV light in our refrigerators, a new consumer device is out to change that. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Nanyang Technological University, Ultraviolet, Light, Bacteria, Antibacterial, Food technology| Around The Home
If you’re looking for an affordable and effective cordless wet and dry stick vacuum, Roborock has well and truly got you covered. A step up from its F25 model, the F25 ACE delivers more suck for your buck, from its powerful suction and anti-tangle tech to its auto-dispensing detergent tank and self-cleaning function. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Reviews, Wet and dry vacuum cleaner, Self-cleaning, Cleaning| Around The Home
If you've had to move house often, or needed to live in compact spaces, you'll love this. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a way to produce flat-pack furniture using a robotic quilting machine, which folds from lightweight cloth-covered panels into functional pieces for your home. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Furniture, Carnegie Mellon University, DIY, Design Engineering| Around The Home
There's seemingly no part of modern home life that can't be made just a little bit better thanks to smart technology. Case in point, the new Spicerr gadget that delivers perfectly measured spices thanks to flavor profiles you set through an app. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Cooking, Kickstarter, Crowdfunding, Smart Home| Around The Home
A gorgeous solution to a common problem... This mesmerizing mechanical vise adjusts its shape to hold oddly shaped items still without damaging them, using a design first patented more than a century ago. It can also turn inside-out. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Tools, Kickstarter, Engineering, Crowdfunding| Around The Home
This is quite possibly the most over-engineered pen I've ever come across, and it looks like it's straight out of a spycraft lab. The Hancept Zero Mk2 is a 2-mm-thick contraption that can slip into a credit card slot, and magically fold into a hexagonal pen in a snap. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Writing, EDC, Kickstarter, Crowdfunding, Art| Around The Home
There are people out there that take tooth-brushery very seriously. I know, because I'm one of them. Some folk made sourdough during COVID lockdowns – I personally spent a lot of time hyperfocusing on yoga and then showering and brushing my teeth while still in the yoga zone. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Toothbrush, Teeth, Dental, Luxury| Around The Home
Roborock's handsome Flexi Lite claims 17,000 pascals of suction, 40 minutes of battery, a self-cleaning and drying roller-mop, a lay-flat mode for getting under furniture, and right-to-the-edge cleaning on one side. How's it go, then? Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Reviews, Vacuum cleaner, Cleaning, Self-cleaning| Around The Home
Walls in many homes play host to art prints or family photos, but refreshing your collection can be a pain. Thanks to a nifty tap-to-print feature and color ePaper technology, the Reflection Frame updates imagery in seconds and is easy on the eyes. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Kickstarter, E-Ink, Color, Art, Photo, Frameless| Around The Home
Eureka's new flagship robo-cleaner goes to impressive lengths to look after itself, automating as much of its maintenance as possible so you don't need to. We've been living with this plucky robot for a few months now. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Reviews, Vacuum cleaner, Robots, Cleaning| Around The Home
From home assistants to advances in heating and cooling systems and from robotic vacuum cleaners to voice-controlled lawn mowers, here's where you can stay abreast of the latest home automation news and developments.| New Atlas