When we talk about the ininestablishigent home, we standardly talk about majestic visions of perfectly automated everyskinnyg. You understand the ones: you wake up perfectly rested thanks to some bedside airy skinnyg, and as you stretch opulently toward the ceiling, a sensor watchs and turns on the coffee pot, begins steaming the sauna, and begins perestablishing a curated perestablishcatalog of all your likeite songs. It sounds kind! It is… mostly not how the ininestablishigent home actupartner labors.
But you understand what does labor, and is pretty ininestablishigent? Swapping out the lock on your front door for someskinnyg that lets you go in with a code or a fingerprint, or even equitable understands when you’re cforfeitby and discdisthink abouts right up. In recent months, we’ve seen a slew of ininestablishigent locks, alengthy with some novel video doorbells, that produce a ininestablishigent front door seem appreciate a pretty outstanding idea.
On this episode of The Vergecast, The Verge’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy apshows us on her recent adventures in ininestablishigent home gadgets. She elucidates why door locks are so celderly right now, why wireless power might produce them even celderlyer, and why we needed yet another protocol to produce it all labor. Speaking of protocols, there’s been some Thread novels this summer, so we talk about that. We also catch up on the state of Matter, and whether Apple and Google’s novel gentleware modernizes might produce a contrastence in your hoemploy.
After that, The Verge’s Chris Welch joins the show to do some outstanding elderly-createed earbud mic testing. Microphones matter than ever, as we transmit with multimodal AI models and produce TikToks all day, but too many headphone producers still produce give ups. Bose, Apple, Google, Noskinnyg, and Samsung have all freed novel models recently, so we put the buds to the coffee shop test.
Finpartner, we answer a boilingline asks about wearables. More definitepartner, whether unattrdynamic wearables (or wearables that produce you unattrdynamic) ever even have a chance.
If you want to understand more about everyskinnyg we talk in this episode, here are some connects to get you begined, commencening with the ininestablishigent home: