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Game [Not] Over Gamers: Protect Yourself Before It’s Too Late!
Imagine this scenario… You’re engaged in your favorite online multi-player game. You’re part of a team that has been painstakingly working its way up...
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Personal Notification System: Keeps Tabs on the Naughty and Nice
Keeping holiday surprises safe from curious kids and sneaky spouses can prove challenging for any gift giver this season. It’s hard to catch naughty...
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EATing-in again? Lets’ take the HEAT off you: Electronic Assistive Technology, Smart homes and disabled persons
Providing appropriate technology to support people in their own homes is difficult. Ascertaining needs, real needs as opposed to desires and wish...
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Future-Proofing for Your Home with Carlon? Resi-Gard?
Flexible Raceway Systems Within the past decade residential cabling has changed from Plain Old Telephone Systems (POTS) to Category 3 Cable to...
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Questions to Ask and Know Before Purchasing a Video Processor Video Processors, The Swiss Army Knife
A lot of things must happen in order to create a true home theater experience. A video processor is a must have tool to give your current home...
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The Internet: Shopping and Flopping – Buying Home Entertainment and Automation on the Net
Smart homeowners make good customers. Smart homeowners do their homework, their research before making long-term home entertainment and automation...
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Automated Interior Plant Care and the Environmental Aspects of Home Technologies
The home automation industry has spawned many new concepts, making our existence more interesting and easier to manage. Lost in the shuffle however...
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Home Theater that Sounds like the Real Thing: iDP Technology Tunes Loudspeakers to your Room
Sound for home theater – the kind of sound that engenders what’s termed, “the immersion experience” – is not dependent on loudspeakers alone. Nor on...
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HomeToys Interview
Question #1: Equator recently announced a new chip that could deliver some exciting changes to the consumer electronics market, tell us about it, and...
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Pitch Timbre And Quality vs The Subwoofer
The pitch of a musical note is the characteristic that enables us to determine whether it is a low note or a high note. Obviously, the pitch is...
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Lighting the Way to Energy Efficiency
People install comprehensive lighting control systems in their homes for any number of worthwhile reasons. Convenience is one of the most common. For...
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Trends in Residential Energy Management – A White Paper
For years, the marketplace for home management solutions (including home controls, or what many in the industry refer to as “home automation”) has...
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It’s a wedding, and you’re invited! No need to shop for gifts – it’s a marriage of technologies!
Recently, a friend and neighbor asked me to assemble a camera system for him, the purpose of which was to provide video coverage of his entire front...
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DLP, LCD or CRT Projection The Best Choice For Your Needs
True Home Theater – is a dedicated room with insulated walls, comfy seating, a CRT projector, full screen and surround sound. Bearing this in mind...
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Hardwired Lighting Control: Now Affordable and Reliable
For years the only affordable lighting control was X10 powerline carrier technology. The only problem was that it didn’t work very well. X10 systems...
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Holster that Drill, Cowboy – SecureView PLC Video Products make retrofit easy.
Every video-security installer can tell you a story about the retrofit job from hell. A story that usually begins with “It seemed pretty simple at...
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Maximize the Performance of your In-wall Speakers
People love in-wall speakers. As whole house systems put audio in every room homeowners are, more than ever, looking for an invisible solution for...
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An Easy Way to Determine Impedance Match Volume Control Settings
When connecting multiple speakers to an amplifier, it’s important to stay above the amp’s minimum load requirements. Going below an impedance rating...
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Electric Underfloor Heating: Quiet, Comfortable, Connected
Amid the boom in home remodeling Americans are finding a new source of comfort with electric underfloor heating. The benefits are quickly apparent to...
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HomeToys Interview Pervasiveness and Impact of Embedded Controllers
1) Describe the impact of the pervasiveness of embedded controllers in peoples’ daily lives. How do these chips impact products in the home, car, and...
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Structured Wiring: Home Beauty is More than Skin Deep
The beauty of a home goes more than skin deep for today’s life styles. Home theater, computer networking, closed circuit video channels, HDTV, web...
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Home Control & The Personal Computer (HCPC): The Perfect Match
Just about every American household has some form of home entertainment system (TV, VCRs, DVDs, etc.), most have at least one PC, and more are...
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HomeToys Interview
1) We hear that OSGi is doing really well for in-vehicle telematics. Can you tell us how it’s going to be used and who’s adopting it? The Acunia Open...
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EMERGING STORAGE TECHNOLOGY TRENDS FOR RESIDENTIAL GATEWAYS
The availability of new in-home interconnection technologies, combined with the explosion of non PC-based devices, is driving the demand for a single...