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SMART HOME CES SPECIAL

The smart home is all about making life easier or more comfortable, and amidst all the silly gadgets that were on show at CES there were lots of more practical devices, too. LG’s Cloi robot may have been a bit of a disaster, but the company makes lots of other household appliances, ranging from air conditioning systems to ovens, fridges, and TV sets, and its ThinQ artificial intelligence system is designed to link all those devices together and create a truly smart home. LG is even taking on Siri and Apple TV, by using Amazon’s Alexa in its ThinQ TVs so that you can tell the TV to change the channel or mute the volume whenever an annoying celebrity is on.

Cleaning is a tedious chore for everyone, so we appreciated Roomba’s announcement of an updated range of robot vacuum cleaners, which can zoom around your home,

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