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A smarthome promises freedom from wall switches and pull chains. Instead, you get voice control and powerful automation. That’s how it works for smart light bulbs, anyway. Why not make your home’s ceiling fans smart, too?

In-wall lighting controls bring convenience, security, luxury, and sophistication into your home.

Starting a business is a breeze: there is no minimum capital requirement, and in the World Bank’s latest Doing Business report, Kazakhstan ranked 22nd globally when it comes to the ease of setting up a company. On the World Bank’s overall Ease of Doing Business Index, the country jumped from 36th – already a decent ranking – in 2018 to 25th in 2020. And it is the legal framework that has made this possible. In two of the key metrics used by the World Bank, Kazakhstan is a global leader:...

Image: Philips Hue To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. While Philips’ Hue range has firmly established itself as the big dog of smart lighting, it’s not exactly the cheapest option available. They’re worth the money, but depending on what you want to pick up, it can be a consid...

The Philips Hue smart lighting range is great, but it can be expensive. The goods news is you can save up to 40% off the RRP.

Show More Apple launched HomeKit in 2014 and for many users it remains a bit of a mystery, an outlier in the smart home space that is wound up with the iPhone, Siri, and an unintuitive corner of the smart home universe. What is HomeKit, and is it appropriate for your home? Let’s dig in and break down what it is and how it works today. What is HomeKit? While HomeKit is exclusive to Apple and its licensees, it is really just a communications protocol, a framework of technologies that lets you...

Image: Philips To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. One of the easiest ways to transform your home into a smart home is with the appropriate use of smart lighting. This isn’t just about adding a few bulbs and illuminating the room of your choosing, because we’ve been able to do th...

One of my favorite movies when I was growing up was Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. In it, the main protagonist, Wayne Szalinski, is a nerdy scientist-slash-home-gadget-inventor who develops a shrink ray in his attic that accidentally shrinks his kids and two neighbor kids down to the size of gnats. But it was Wayne’s other inventions that always caught my eye — in particular, his Rube Goldberg-esque system for announcing when the mail has arrived. I’m no Wayne Szalinski and I’m certainly no...