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Somfy TaHoma
Somfy’s TaHomA is an home automation systems designed to make your life easier and save you energy. ToHomA focused on what the company calls the “energy triangle”- natural and artificial lighting, heating and cooling according. Once installed and configured, controlling lights, powered shades and thermostats can all be automated. You can even make adjustments to your system remotely over any Internet-connected computer. TaHomA gives you the ability to create a customized scenes for different times of day, trips or special moods. It’s built around one networked gateway which communicates to your other devices via Z-Wave wireless technology.
Smarthome OutLink Dimmer
OuletLinc Dimmer replaces a traditional so you can turn your regular lamp into a dimming lamp. The dimmer is only enabled when paired with a magnetic key which fits over a lamp plug. Even better, it’s wirelessly controlled with INSTEON technology. Advanced features include an adjustable ramp rate that slowly brings the lamp on, a preset dim level that stores your preferred choice of 32 brightness levels when turning the lamp on initially, as well as load sense, so you can still use the lamp’s built-in switch to turn the light on and off. It’s made to be installed in place of any wall receptacle and controls incandescent loads up to 300 Watts.
Angry Birds Speaker
If birds throwing themselves at pigs wasn’t weird enough, how about an iPod speaker designed to look like one of those videogame birds? GEAR4 has a whole line of these songbirds– Red Bird, Black Bird and the Helmet pig. The Red Bird speaker ($79.99) allows playback with all Apple devices and any audio player with an output thanks to the auxiliary cable.
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