Smart Home–Digital Trends

Voice assistants are great helpers in the kitchen, so Alexa and Google Home are extra useful for holidays. Here are some ways your smart speakers can keep you in the holiday spirit.

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Are you dreading the lengthy process of cooking a holiday dinner? Try these holiday gadgets to make the job of cooking much easier. These items will make for an easy, breezy meal.

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What are you drinking at your holiday party? If you're hosting, you might want to have beer, wine, cocktails, and coffee on hand, so we rounded up some drinking gadgets that can help with all types of beverages.

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Cleaning your oven kind of sucks, but unless you do it on a somewhat regular basis, the food and grease is going to keep get more baked on and the process is going to suck more. Here's how to clean an oven.

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On December 22, Amazon announced the acquisition of Kickstarter darling Blink, whose smart security solutions include cameras and doorbells that are, of course, compatible with Amazon's Echo line.

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Let smart devices help you deck the halls this holiday season. Whether you have a thing for nativity scenes or aspire to be Clark Griswold, use these holiday lighting tips and tricks to brighten up your Christmas.

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In the tech world, a lot happens in a week. So much news goes on that it's almost impossible for mere mortals with real lives to keep track of it. That’s why we’ve compiled a quick and dirty list of the top tech stories from this week.

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Watch as Digital Trends and Control4 transform a technologically outdated home into a connected smart-home marvel. In this third video within our four-part 'Connect my Crib' video series, we show how a new network and Control4 devices simply control with Alexa.

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Smart home devices can make the perfect gifts this holiday season, as more and more people are "going smart" in their homes, whether for security, convenience, or just good fun. Check out our smart home holiday gift guide for ideas under $150.

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SoapBox, a voice recognition company, has developed a platform that specifically understands children, ready to enhance the next generation of interactive toys, learning tools, and other voice controlled products.

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With it's streamlined design and the intelligence of Google Assistant, the Google Home Mini is Digital Trends' smart home product of the year. The Samsung FlexWash washing machine and the all-new Amazon Echo are runners-up.

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