Smart lighting has quickly moved from a niche home-tech upgrade to an essential feature of modern living. As connected ...

Govee’s Floor Lamp 2 is a striking, app-controlled RGB floor lamp that blends colourful effects with warm white lighting, ...

The homes will get smarter this year as we witness the best smart home devices of CES 2026 revolutionize the technology for better life.

Ambient lighting is most simply thought of as “indirect lighting.” It’s lighting that isn’t focused directly on an object and is used to add to the available amount of light in a room. You can use ...

TP-Link, a company known for producing affordable smart home gadgets, has announced a new lineup of smart LED light strips and light bulbs. This includes the Tapo L900, Tapo L920, Tapo L930, and Tapo ...

On the show floor of CES 2026, I saw switches, locks and more connected home gadgets that were able to send the signals ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Gold writes about wellness design and related housing topics. This article is more than 2 years old. First floor living ...

I picked Aqara’s Smart Lock U400 and Roborock’s Saros Rover robot vacuum as the overall best smart home gadgets from CES 2026 ...

IKEA's 21 new smart IoT devices support Matter, HomeKit, Google, and Alexa, so you can build a low-cost setup with quick pairing and simple controls.

For selection and affordability, Ikea will be hard to beat for Matter-compatible smart home sensors and lighting in 2026.

There are two versatile options to choose from ...

Sometimes the simplest way to understand the cause-and-effect nature of automation is to start with the effect. Scenes are ...