Top 10 High-Tech Home Blogs
Sure, your home may be your castle--and it may need upgrades just as badly. These blogs discuss the ways that high tech can make your home more secure, efficient, beautiful and fun (with a special focus on home automation, home projects, and home theater.
Products, projects and ideas for creating a worthy home theater. Frequently profiles installer builds for competitions and clients' homes, expanding readers' ideas of what's possible.
Guide Robert Silva discusses home theater in plain English. Topics include surround sound, different formats, and the multitude of available projection technologies. Pays particular attention to the rise of Blu-Ray and associated issues of converting--or replacing--your video library.
Focuses primarily on high-end and even fantasy home-theater setups, including items such as tiki lounges, custom sconces and popcorn machines, velvet ropes, stadium vs. theater seating, LED posters, and video games.
Covers the wider world of home electronics, including home theaters but also embracing home appliances, security and communications systems, network connectivity and lighting controls. Best post yet: The "dive-in theater"--an outdoor pool whose decks has a specially mounted 92-inch TV that lets swimmers watch football.
Home electronics for the do-it-yourselfer, although some electric and electronic savvy may be required. An excellent resource for enthusiasts who are willing to put some elbow grease (and potentially programming time) into creating their ideal smart home.
Home systems for the technology-oriented. British site showcases and reviews products, software, tools and techniques that light, visualize, secure and control your home.
Online magazine with thoughtful coverage of all aspects of home automation, including how lighting controls save energy, how automated systems can help seniors and the chronically ill stay at home longer, and how the economic downturn affects home-tech dealers' offerings.
Covers all aspects of home automation through INSTEON, X10 and other types of controllers. Products that let you watch the house from a distance--or just make sure the kids aren't watching too much TV (you can shut it off via the Web).
SmartHomeUSA Home Automation Blog
Blog by a dealer/installer that nonetheless includes lengthy articles on improving and troubleshooting home tech. Helpful and accessible for beginners.
CNET site is an excellent entry point for those getting started on home tech. Projects for everything from home offices and home networking to rewiring the entire house for a central control system.
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