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New Philips Hue Festavia string lights launch in time for Christmas
There’s a new, festive addition to the Philips Hue range. The aptly named Festavia offers 250 colour-changing LEDs you can control from the Hue app.
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Matter has launched – but what does it mean for your smart home?
The new smart home protocol is now official. Here are the benefits it will bring and how it affects smart devices you already own.
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Nanoleaf is Matter-ready with its new Essentials lights
Nanoleaf has announced its first Matter-ready products: two bulbs and a light strip, which will go on sale next year.
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What is Matter? The new smart home standard explained
The first Matter-certified products are due to launch on 3 November. But what is Matter and what does it mean for smart home technology?
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Shark’s new Stratos vacuums are already on sale for Black Friday
Shark's Stratos range has only just launched but you can already find some of the new corded and cordless cleaners on sale in the run-up to Black Friday.
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Amazon Echo Dot 5: release date, price & features
The new Echo Dot 5 keeps the spherical design but improves sound quality and gets new features
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Lidl’s heated airer will dry your clothes for just 7p an hour
Lidl's £45 heated clothes rack costs just 7p an hour to run and will keep you from having to use your tumble dryer.
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Tech Advisor Awards: The 60 best consumer tech products of the year
Tech Advisor's 2022-2023 Awards highlight the best consumer tech across a range of categories, including phones, laptops, tablets, wearables, audiovisual, accessories, software, smart home and lifestyle.
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Dyson’s Gen5 has a new motor powerful enough to suck up viruses
Dyson's upcoming cordless cleaner, the Gen5detect, is more powerful, has new features and ditches the hated trigger.
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Should you buy an air fryer?
Will it be a go-to appliance or just another piece of kitchen clutter?
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Lidl's light alarm will make your mornings better for under £30
Here's why you grab should Lidl's bargain light alarm while you can. And if you miss it, we've got an excellent, budget-friendly alternative
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Sharp might be your answer for an affordable Mini-LED TV in 2023
A combination of Mini-LED panel tech, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, Android TV, and an attractive price might make the XLED series a winner
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Amazon Echo 5: Release date, price and feature rumours
Amazon's hardware event came and went, without a mention of an update to the fourth-generation Echo.
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Millions of Echo speakers to become Eero range extenders
A free over-the-air update will turn Alexa devices into mesh Wi-Fi extenders as part of the Eero Built-in programme.
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All Echo Studio owners are getting a great free upgrade
If you have an Amazon Echo Studio, you'll be getting spatial audio processing technology and more in a free update that Amazon will be rolling out
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Amazon’s new Fire TV Omni gets QLED, ambient experience & more
The Fire TV range goes big time with an upgraded Quantum Dot panel, presence sensor, ambient experience, Alexa widgets and more for $799
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Amazon’s new Halo Rise can track your sleep from beside the bed
The Halo Rise is a sleep tracker and light alarm rolled into one, but it's exclusive to the US for now
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With Fire TV, there's now a reason to buy an Echo Show 15
Set for release via a software update later this year, Fire TV's coming to the Echo Show 15
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Amazon's 3rd-gen Fire TV Cube has new upscaling technology
The new Fire TV Cube comes with a more powerful processor, a HDMI-input port and 4K upscaling – and pre-orders are open from today
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