For the 12th year in a row, Electronic House magazine hosted its popular Home of the Year contest. Home systems professionals across the country submitted some of their best, most innovative smart home projects to date. You can find all of the winners in this special digital edition, but here’s we’ve highlight some of our […]
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Imagine grabbing a remote control, pressing a button, and scratching your head as nothing happens. Or having a house brimming with speakers that simply won’t play music. Just as frustrating, think about what it would be like to invest in high-def TVs but only be able watch low-res analog video. These are a few of […]
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By Grace Chamia, Houzz Sometimes room designs don’t seem to allow for 60-inch smart TVs — maybe it disrupts the aesthetic flow and clean lines the designer worked so hard to achieve. Cue these now-you-see-me, now-you-don’t entertainment systems amd smart TVs that blend in with their surroundings so well, they rival chameleons with their camouflage. […]
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Where’s the speaker? That might be the question you might ask yourself when you see a new Sony TV that seems to require no speakers to produce audio. The new super-slim A1E Bravia OLED 4K TV features Acoustic Surface Technology in which the sound emanates directly from the entire screen itself rather than from traditional […]
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Just as you would sip and savor a fine wine, the technology integrated into this 7,800-square-foot home was added gradually, one piece at a time. It was an approach that allowed homeowner Michael Falcone to stretch his imagination and budget over the course of three years, starting with the installation of a robust home network […]
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Home automation is a feature that you really need to see in action to understand its full potential. To make it easy for consumers to touch and feel the technology, Control4 will be taking a fully automated, custom “Smart Design, Smart Living” Airstream coast-to-coast to showcase smart home technology to consumers, interior designers, and architects. […]
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Seura is taking TV calibration to the outdoors, with the introduction of Adaptive Picture Technology, available in its Storm Ultra Bright outdoor TVs. The company says the technology automatically adjusts a TV’s backlight brightness and picture settings to optimize picture quality in the ever-changing landscape of the great outdoors. Seura offers the Storm Ultra Bright […]
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By Jennifer Blaise Kramer, Houzz Photos by Alyssa Lee Photography In Minnesota, the basement is an important family gathering space for movie nights, parties and game day. And this couple wanted to make sure their basement was given as much love as the upper floors. So they hired Carla Bast to design a space with […]
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There has been an onslaught of devices introduced in the past few months that can be controlled via voice through Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant technology. VIZIO joined the club by announcing that its SmartCast devices including TVs, displays, soundbars and speakers are now compatible with Google Home, Google’s voice-activated speaker powered by the Google […]
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A recent winner of Screen Excellence’s Installation of the Month competition is this Star Wars-themed project by Zene Private Cinema. The Chinese integration firm completed this ambitious home theater project after the client got back in touch after buying a karaoke machine from the integration company two years earlier. “When he moved into a new […]
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