If you’re heating your house then using a gas hob to boil a kettle is always going to be much more economical. The waste heat just goes towards contributing to home heating at 100% efficiency, and of course gas is … Continue reading →

Electric shower You may be surprised to see that an electric shower has topped our list of most energy-consuming appliances, but it takes a lot of energy to heat the water and could use 1,460 kWh in a year. Are … Continue reading →

Here are some simple, effective ways you can save money and conserve electricity today: Save money with the right electricity plan. Turn off electronics that aren’t in use. Install ceiling fans. Change your A/C air filters more often. Buy Energy … Continue reading →

Even as the wealthiest Romans burned candles or vegetable oil in bronze lamps, and the poorest lit their homes with fish oil in lamps of clay or terra cotta, soldiers and others in need of portable lighting continued to use … Continue reading →

As nouns the difference between ceiling and soffit is that ceiling is the surface that bounds the upper limit of a room while soffit is (architecture) the visible underside of an arch, balcony, beam, cornice, staircase, vault or any other … Continue reading →

If the power is out long enough even the city folks will run out of water. Many homes are all electric, so as soon at the lights are out they have no heat, no hot water and they can’t cook.If … Continue reading →

Arguably the easiest way to upgrade your lighting is with smart bulbs. You can swap out the existing CFL or LED bulbs in your lamps and lighting fixtures with a Philips Hue, Lifx Mini, Eufy Lumos LED or many other … Continue reading →

It plays security siren and alert to scare off any intruders.To start, just say “Alexa, start Security Siren” or “Alexa, launch Security Siren”. Can Alexa set off a siren? With Alexa Guard enabled, any Echo speaker becomes a sentinel, able … Continue reading →

MIMO is one of the key enabling techniques for 5G wireless technology, providing increases in throughput and signal to noise ratio. MIMO – Multiple Input Multiple Output is well established for mobile communications as well as many other technologies. Why … Continue reading →

Kevin Ashton. Kevin Ashton is an innovator and consumer sensor expert who coined the phrase “the Internet of Things” to describe the network connecting objects in the physical world to the Internet. Who first invented IoT? But the actual term … Continue reading →

Do I plug Ethernet into WAN or LAN? You need to connect your home network devices to the LAN ports on your router. WAN is only used to connect the router to the modem. Does Ethernet go in WAN or … Continue reading →

10 gigabits per second. What is 10G? Not to be confused with the cellular industry’s 5G (meaning fifth generation), the “G” in 10G means gigabits per second, a blazing fast internet speed. 10G is the cable industry’s vision for delivering … Continue reading →

In the My Activity tool, click Activity controls, scroll to Location history and click Manage Activity. On the next page, find the icon shaped like a nut and then click Automatically delete location history. You can set data to self-purge … Continue reading →

Unless there are space constraints, all assets that use these logos must include the following attribution: “Amazon, Echo, Alexa, and all related logos are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.” Broadcast and print assets must always have the attribution. … Continue reading →

Echo Show device lets you enable skills but not applications as their interface is different that of smart phone or tablet. You can enable ‘Skills’ on the Alexa App which are used to link any third party services. The easiest … Continue reading →