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Echo Dot review: Hands-on with Amazon’s smart, squat, almost-too-independent Alexa sibling
Befitting its stature, here is the capsule review: Amazon’s new Echo Dot smart speaker is the Echo you’ve been waiting for if you mainly want...
GeekWire Deals: This Smart Bluetooth LED bulb lets you choose from 16 million colors
Light has a surprisingly large effect on our day to day life. It can help us wake up after switching to daylights saving time and keep us up at night. It can even make you more eager and ease tension. With today’s GeekWire Deals offer, you can harness control over...
A high tech way to coax kids to brush their teeth – the smart connected toothbrush
LAS VEGAS — Is it a struggle to get your kids to brush their teeth? Do you crave data that shows whether your own tooth brushing technique is doing the job correctly? Or maybe you simply have too much money to...
GeekWire Deals: This svelte stand is a step up from your iPad’s Smart Cover
Apple’s Smart Cover is a fine solution to keep your iPad in a comfortable position for watching a movie or maybe banging out an email, but it really only has two possible positions. So if you’re trying to watch a movie in a tiny airplane seat or want...
GeekWire Deals: Let Siri control your lights with this HomeKit-enabled smart bulbs
Smart lights are pretty great. You can easily turn them on and off anywhere you get an internet connection, setup custom timers and group whole rooms together to easily light up your home. But taking your phone out of your pocket, unlocking it and opening the...
GeekWire Deals: Save your MacBook charger with this smart case
If you’ve been an Apple user for a while, you know that the most poorly engineered part of any Apple product is usually the charger. Or, more accurately, the cable that provides power to your device. From kinks to fraying cords, the chargers seem...
Vulcan and USDOT unveil $50 million Smart City transportation contest
The U.S. Department of Transportation and billionaire philanthropist Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. are offering $ 50 million to midsize cities, including Seattle, in a “Smart City” competition to promote next-generation transportation systems. “Our national vision for transportation is still very much constrained by 20th-century thinking about technology,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx told reporters today during a...