Amigo Challenge for Smart Home Integration
We all know that systems integration is the single biggest hurdle in building complex smart home systems today. The Amigo Challenge is putting up thousand…
November 2007
Make the Earth Move with Bed Subwoofer
Here’s one for your digital bedroom, the “Hollandia Platinum-Luxe Elite sleep system” (phew, that’s a mouthful) boasts a built in 32″ Flat Screen Sony, a…
Home Automation RSS Feed Upgrade
We’ve just updated our main news page RSS feed to include images. You now get special low-bandwidth versions of the images from the intro text of…
AppleTV Mount for Wall or Back of Telly
A couple of years back we ran a story on an innovative mount for the then new Mac mini. H-Squared have since expanded their range…
Z-Wave Unit Allows Control of Motorised Devices
More Z-Wave goodness, this time in the shape of the “ABMHZ” from Electronic Solution Inc. This device allows you to integrate a variety of motorised…
Lantronix UBox Provides USB over the Net
Mavromatic have just released a video review of the Lantronix UBox 2100, a kind of USB server that allows control of USB Devices over the…
Vudu Streams HD Movies over Broadband
Here’s an interesting sleek black box that streams rented movies into your home over broadband (well it does if you’re in the USA). The Vudu…
HackMyth PVR plus Z-Wave Home Automation
Here’s one we haven’t covered before, HackMyth is described as “the home automation control kit for mythTV” and offers Z-Wave wireless control of your…
USB Dongle Temperature Capture
Here’s a $19 USB dongle with a difference. This USB device is a thermometer which lets you measure the temperature and record the data on your PC (windows…
iPhone Formatted Version of Automated Home Site
The iPhone is the best mobile browsing experience we’ve ever encountered, it’s the first phone where you really can navigate normal, proper, full graphical versions…
3G USB Broadband Modem Review
Submission by Keith Doxey – OK, I admit it….. I’m hooked on the Internet! Whenever I am away from home I start to get withdrawal…
Norco DS-520 Provides 8TB of Home NAS
The Norco DS-520 Home Server Appliance supports Windows Home Server amongst other OS’s and with 5 hot swap bays plus a additional 3 eSATA ports,…
Marmitek Launch new Wireless IR Repeater System
It’s one of the oldest problems, how do you control the satellite receiver, set-top box, dvd player or whatever source that’s in one room, from…
More New Z-Wave Modules for UK and Europe
Here’s another teasing release on new UK Z-Wave modules, this time from the Taiwanese, Everspring Industry. Promised for release in Europe “during the next…
Introducing the Automated Home “Masked Installer” Blog
In the weeks and months ahead Automated Home will be bringing you a new exclusive blog from the “Masked Installer”. These are the musings of…
Win a £20,000 CAR with your Home Automation Project!
Our friends over at ZDNet.com have launched the Homebrew Challenge, a search to find the top home tech project in the UK – “Tell us about…
Digital Photo Frame Bedside Alarm Clock
With christmas just 6 weeks away many of us are scrambling for that perfect gift. Philips have a potential winner with their new £100 bedside…
HP Windows Home Server Box – Video
Here’s more on the new HP Windows Home Server that’s just 30 days away from shipping . The machine is much smaller than we…
The Google Phone and the Open Handset Alliance
The long expected announcement on the “Google Phone” is here. A few minutes ago the “Open Handset Alliance” announced “Android” and issued the following press…
HP MediaSmart Windows Home Server
Amazon.com are now listing the HP MediaSmart Windows Home Server as "In stock soon" and taking pre-orders for the much anticipated 1 terabyte machine. Conveniently…