If you’ve been waiting to buy a brand-new suite of matching appliances, November is the right time to do it. As we’ve reported elsewhere, you’ll see some of the lowest prices of the year this month, on most major appliances—from ranges, refrigerators, and dishwashers to matching washer and dryer sets. But as good as those deals are … Read more
With Singapore pushing towards being a Smart nation, more and more home appliances are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Such appliances have helped us reduce the burden of household chores, while providing greater convenience in our lives. Here, we picked out five high end home appliances that will change your lifestyle at home: 1. Samsung Family Hub … Read more
Smart lighting is perhaps the most accessible area of the smart home, requiring little explanation, installation, and fiddling in order to enjoy the benefits of lighting that you can control from your phone or with your voice, and which changes tone, brightness and even color. Without a doubt the biggest name is smart lighting is … Read more
A special evening of poetry and traditional Irish music presented by Stephen James Smith and Macdara Yeates as part of MusicTown 18. The evening features artists, poets, Stephen James Smith, Felispeaks, John Cummins and musicians Eithne Ní Chatháin (Inni-K) Eoghan ó Ceannabháin (Jiggy, Aon Teanga) and Macdara Yeates, in an intimate, unplugged performance. Building on … Read more
We reveal the best Blu-ray players you can buy in the UK in 2017. Blu-ray player buying advice. Most popular Blu-ray players to buy today. Also see: Best Tech Deals In a world of online catch-up TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube who needs a DVD player any more? Without the arrival of high-quality Blu-ray … Read more
Which smart switch is best? What do smart switches do, and are they worth the money? We test five of the contenders: the Belkin WeMo Insight Switch, TP-Link Wi-Fi Smart Plug, Elgato Eve Energy, Energenie Mi| Home Adapter Plus and the Efergy Ego. Also read our reviews of the best smart light bulbs Also see: Best Gadget … Read more
NAS drives are like cloud storage: you can access all your files from anywhere, both inside and outside of your home or office. You can use them to store and play your music and video collections, as well as documents and other files. Also see: Best Tech Deals NAS drive buyer’s guide NAS stands for Network Attached … Read more
We round up 2016’s best espresso machines, including manual, Nespresso and bean-to-cup, with prices from £90 to £1,159 Coffee has been making mornings more palatable since the 15th century, and in the intervening 500 years the humble coffee bean has spawned forth a huge range of different coffee-based drinks. But whether you’re a fan of … Read more
Fill your rooms with glorious home fragrance and make it last longer with top tips from Victoria Davies, scents buyer at John Lewis. Don’t save scented candles for special occasions because over time the fragrance becomes weaker. When storing them, find somewhere that’s an even temperature – not too hot or cold. To maximise your candle’s burn time, allow it to … Read more
With its $83 RE6500 range extender, Linksys has managed to squeeze the power of the best-performing extender into a package small enough to unobtrusively hide on a shelf, bookcase or even a windowsill. At 6 x 4.2 x 1 inches, the black-and-gray device is one of the smallest extenders on the market, but it packs … Read more