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| PC World - 7 Jan (PC World)Lockly unveiled an ambitious expansion of its home security product lineup at CES on Monday, signaling its intent to make waves in an increasingly crowded market.
Known for its innovative smart locks, Lockly introduced the Duet Series of smart deadbolt, announced the U.S. debut of its Styla Designer Handlebar Deadbolt, and an entirely new series of Sightline smart security cameras.
The Duet smart lock series aims to redefine reliability in this space by combining a motorized mechanism with a manual thumb on the exterior side of the lock, giving users the option to manually lock and unlock the deadbolt when they’re outside the house. This hybrid approach addresses a common pain point for users who fear that electronic smart lock malfunctions will leave users locked out. With this added functionality, the Duet Series promises both convenience and peace of mind.
The Duet Series also boasts up to 200-percent longer battery life than typical smart locks, thanks to what Lockly says is more efficient engineering. Built-in Wi-Fi adapters and compatibility with platforms such as Apple Home Keys, Google Home, and Amazon Alexa should allow the Duet Series promise to deliver broad smart home compatibility.
The Lockly Vision Prestige has displays on both its exterior (shown up top) and its interior escutcheons.Lockly
Lockly’s Vision Prestige Duet Series combines technologies previously incorporated into products such as the Lockly Vision Elite we reviewed in 2022. Priced at $499.99 and set to launch in Q4 2025, this series of locks offers an integrated video camera with 2K resolution, facial recognition, and real-time monitoring via the Lockly Home app. This lock also has an LCD display on its interior escutcheon to show who’s on the other side of the door.
The Secure Pro Deadbolt UWB Edition, priced at $379.99 and also launching in Q4 2025, features an Ultra Wideband (UWB) radio for hands-free, proximity-based unlocking.
Lockly’s new Styla Designer Handlebar Deadbolt enters the U.S. market as a luxury offering, blending aesthetic appeal with cutting-edge technology. With a sleek, minimalist design, the Styla is geared toward homeowners unwilling to compromise on style or functionality.
The Lockly Styla Designer Handlebar Deadbolt integrates a smart lock into a stylish handleset (stylish if you like a modern aesthetic, that is).Lockly
Those looking for a complete handleset with an integrated smart deadbolt will want to look at Lockly’s Styla Designer Handlebar Deadbolt. Its feature set includes Lockly’s PIN Genie, an embedded 2K HD video camera with color night vision and motion sensors, a 3D fingerprint sensor, and a two-way intercom. The Styla Designer Handlebar Deadbolt will be available in Q3 2025 for $699.99.
Lockly enters the security camera space
The Sightline Pro is one of two home security cameras Lockly is showing at CES this year.Lockly
While Lockly has several products with integrated cameras, the battery-powered Sightline Camera and Sightline Camera Pro will be its first entries in the crowded home security camera space. These cameras will eliminate the need for Lockly customers to juggle multiple apps to see what’s happening around their homes.
The Sightline Camera offers 2K HD resolution, color night vision, and local video storage via a microSD card. It’s priced at $69.99 and will be available in Summer 2025. The Sightline Pro features a 4K camera mounted on a motorized base that can tilt and pan 360 degrees, automatically tracking any source of movement in its field of view., and advanced tracking capabilities, will also be available in Summer 2025, priced at $149.99. Read...Newslink ©2025 to PC World |  |
|  | | PC World - 7 Jan (PC World)Jasco, the maker of some of our favorite smart lights, is at CES this week to show off its latest smart plus and wall switches, all of which come with a key feature: Matter support.
Jasco is also debuting a new set of indoor accent wall lights that can be controlled via the brand’s Enbrighten app or an RF remote; plus, a new entry in its Eternity outdoor light series.
Matter smart plugs and switches
An early proponent of the smart home-unifying Matter standard, Jasco has already released several Matter-enabled light bulbs, and now the manufacturer is following up with a series of Matter-ready smart plugs and wall switches.
Slated to ship this summer, the plug and switches will boast on/off functionality, dimming, motion sensing, and countdown timers. The switches will be wall-mountable and will offer a “polished, hardwired appearance,” Jasco says.
Thanks to Matter, the new devices will work with Alexa, Apple Home, Google Home, and Samsung SmartThings, as well as with the Enbrighten app.
Users will also be able to control the plugs and switches with battery-powered Matter remotes that will work without Wi-Fi.
Jasco
Jasco will ship a total of five different Matter smart plugs, ranging in price from $32.99 to $39.99. One of the plugs will be an outdoor model with a countdown timer, while the others will be indoor units; one of the plugs will have a motion sensor.
The company’s five smart switches start at $24.99, including models with three-way dimmers and different combinations of countdown timers and presets, while the priciest switch ($39.99) will have a motion sensor.
Enbrighten Indoor Accent Wall Lights
Alongside its new Matter plugs and switches, Jasco is also serving up new indoor accent lights at CES.
The Enbrighten Indoor Accent Wall Lights come with 12 RGBWWIC LED pucks on a 12-foot strand (RGBWWIC means each pucks has discrete integrated circuits for red, green, blue, white, and warm white). You can mount the lights using the included mounting clips and adhesive tape, and up to four of the strings can be connected to a single power source. Said power source can connect to either end of the string.
The Indoor Accent Wall Lights can glow in millions of colors, and they offer dynamic lighting effects as well as the ability to sync with tunes courtesy of Jasco’s MusicSync technology.
Jasco
You can control the wall lights ($79.99, or $34.99 for a 12-puck expansion pack) using the Enbrighten app or an included RF remote. The lights work with Alexa and Google Home, but not with Matter.
Same as Jasco’s new smart plugs and switches, the Enbrighten Indoor Accent Wall Lights are set to come out this summer.
Eternity Landscape Lights
Finally, Jacso is unveiling a follow-up to its Eternity permanent outdoor lights, with the Eternity Landscape Lights slated to go on sale later this month.
The compact, Wi-Fi-connected lights can be used as either outdoor spotlights or footlights, with an 8-light set selling for $99.99 while a 12-light package will retail for $129.99.
Jasco
We’ve previously reviewed some of Jasco’s smart wares, including the company’s Enbrighten Eternity Lights, which snagged our Editors’ Choice award last summer. Read...Newslink ©2025 to PC World |  |
|  | | PC World - 7 Jan (PC World)Deep within your computer is a blueprint that specifies a certain “language” of machine instructions it can understand and execute. This blueprint (called the “instruction set architecture”) sits between your computer’s software and hardware.
In order for any given app to function properly on your computer, it needs to “speak” the same language — that way your computer can understand what it wants to do and perform the proper actions on the hardware.
Until now, different instruction set architectures have been proprietary and incompatible with each other (except via emulation, which is like real-time translation between blueprint languages). The x86 and Arm architectures are the best-known real-world examples.
But from 2025 onwards, you’ll be able to buy a computer where everything within is open and customizable. That’s thanks to RISC-V (pronounced “risk five”), an open instruction set architecture used in customized processors for a range of applications.
Framework plans to launch a laptop supporting a RISC-V-based motherboard in 2025. The product is so far aimed at technology enthusiasts and developers, but is expected to be the most user-friendly and refined RISC-V laptop yet, IEEE Spectrum reports.
RISC-V, unlike x86 and Arm, is completely open source and can be used without any licensing fees. This makes the technology more flexible, cheaper, and customizable for manufacturers. In fact, it’s already being used by hard drive manufacturer Western Digital.
RISC-V has the potential to make both hardware and software more accessible and coordinated, and 2025 could be the year when RISC-V computers pave the way towards a new standard. Read...Newslink ©2025 to PC World |  |
|  | | PC World - 7 Jan (PC World)Aqara announced an array of new smart home devices at CES 2025, including its first in-wall touchscreen control panel. The Matter-compatible controller works with the company’s new dimmers, switches, and sensors to deliver Aqara’s most advanced suite of hardware for in-home lighting, climate control, home security, and power management.
The Aqara Panel Hub S1 Plus is Aqara’s first in-wall control panel. The device’s 6.9-inch touchscreen offers centralized control for smart homes and can function as either a Zigbee hub or a Matter bridge. The S1 Plus features an understated design that should blend with almost any home decor.
The Aqara Panel Hub S1 Plus is desgined to be mounted on the wall. Aqara
Users can manage lights, cameras, thermostats, and other devices directly from the panel’s touchscreen, eliminating the need for constant smartphone interaction. Launches are planned for Europe this month, with a North American rollout later in 2025.
Aqara’s new Touchscreen Switch S100US offers hybrid controls that combine traditional mechanical switch functions with the versatility of a 1.3-inch touchscreen. The S100 US integrates presence and light sensors for adaptive functionality, and dual-band Wi-Fi and Thread connectivity allows the S100 to support Matter and work as a Thread Border Router.
The Aqara Touchscreen Dial V1, meanwhile, features a 1.3-inch round touchscreen with a rotary user interface for intuitive adjustments to up to two wired light fixtures and multiple wireless smart devices. The Dial V1 can also control a thermostat, open or close smart curtains or shades, and adjust the dimming level of lighting fixtures. The EU version will be available later this month with a U.S. version to follow later in 2025.
Aqara also announced the upcoming release of its Light Switch H2 and Dimmer Switch H2. These next-gen switches, which support Thread and Zigbee connectivity, ensure compatibility across various smart home platforms, including Matter. The EU versions of the Light Switch H2 and Dimmer Switch H2 will be released later this month. Buyers in the U.S. will need to wait until a little later in 2025.
New sensors and hubs to expand interoperability
Aqara’s Presence Sensor FP300 uses both passive infrared (PIR) and millimeter wave (mmWave) technology for precise motion detection.Aqara
Aqara is expanding its Matter-enabled sensor portfolio with the Presence Multi-Sensor FP300 and the Climate Sensor W100. The FP300 combines passive infrared (PIR) and millimeter wave (mmWave) sensing for precise motion detection. It’s also equipped with light, temperature, and humidity sensors.
The Climate Sensor W100 tracks indoor room temperature and humidity, along with a secondary set of data, such as the current weather conditions or readings from a separate Aqara sensor mounted in another room in the home. Both the Presence Multi-Sensor FP300 and the Climate Sensor W100 support both the Thread and Zigbee protocols.
The Aqara Doorbell Camera Hub G410.Aqara
Aqara’s all-new Doorbell Camera Hub G410 boasts 2K video resolution, end-to-end encryption with HomeKit Secure Video support, and Matter compatibility, with dual-band Wi-Fi, Thread, and Zigbee radios onboard. An integrated mmWave sensor enables on-device presence detection and facial recognition. The doorbell can operate on either battery or wired power, and it can store its recordings either locally or in the cloud.
Lastly, the all-new Aqara Hub M100 look like it will be a successor to the Aqara Hub M3 we reviewed last August. Aqara describes it as an “entry-level Matter controller” equipped with Wi-Fi, Thread, and Zigbee radios enabling it to connect to any product in Aqara’s lineup; plus, hundreds of third-party Matter devices. It can also operate as a Thread border router. Read...Newslink ©2025 to PC World |  |
|  | | PC World - 7 Jan (PC World)About seven years after the HDMI 2.1 specification was introduced, the HDMI Forum has announced the next generation: HDMI 2.2, which will require new cables to take advantage of its most high-performance features. It will not require a new connector, though, thankfully.
Though the HDMI Forum is officially calling the new specification HDMI 2.2, the accompanying cable will also receive a new name: Ultra96. All told, the selling point of both the Ultra96 cable and HDMI 2.2 specification are the increased bandwidth, which doubles the HDMI 2.1 bandwidth from 48Gbps to a staggering 96Gbps.
At this point, however, the HDMI Forum is only talking conceptually about the new specification. Companies who are part of the new HDMI adopter program will receive the full specifications in the first half of 2025, Forum representatives said at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. However, the Forum is promising a next-gen HDMI Fixed Rate Link technology and higher resolutions and faster refresh rates, though the Forum isn’t offering specifics. A new Latency Indication Protocol is designed to improve audio-video syncing, especially in TV applications where the sound has to pass from the TV to the soundbar or satellite speakers.
“Faster 96Gbps bandwidth improves demanding data-intensive, immersive and virtual applications such as AR/VR/MR, spatial reality and light field displays as well as various commercial applications such as large scale digital signage, medical imaging and machine vision,” the Forum added.
HDMI Forum
Even after the specification is released, however, it will take some time for both cables and logic to support the new standard. Remember, HDMI 2.1 supports uncompressed single-display resolution of 8K at 60Hz with 8-bit color depth at 4:2:0 chroma, and the same cables support compression at 10K120 resolution at 12-bit color depths. For most users, HDMI 2.1 is already too much. You will need an upgraded cable if your PC or TV supports the new HDMI 2.2 specification and you want to enjoy its full capabilities.
Alternatively, users have the choice of using DisplayPort, which was “upgraded” from DisplayPort 2.0 to DisplayPort 2.1 in 2022, tightening the specification for USB 4. In January 2024, DisplayPort added the 2.1a specification, whose bandwidth tops out at 80Gbps.
The HDMI Forum already provides a labeling program identifying cables as “Ultra High Speed,” with an accompanying HTML glyph that consumers can access with a smartphone camera to verify. The Forum showed an illustration of an “Ultra96 Certified Cable” where users can do the same.
So far, neither cable or device makers have come forward to support the new standard. But it’s virtually an inevitability, sometime in the future. Read...Newslink ©2025 to PC World |  |
|  | | PC World - 7 Jan (PC World)The HyperSpace TrackPad Pro is one of a handful of technology devices that I like, but it might not be quite ready for prime time.
The concept is simple enough: It’s a mammoth haptic trackpad that’s primarily designed for people who don’t already own one. The external trackpad connects via USB-C and measures 3.85 inches x 6.29 inches (98mm x 160 mm) and maybe half an inch thick. That’s a huge trackpad for most users, and Hyper (which was acquired by Targus in 2021 for its peripherals capabilities) thinks that most PC users need one.
And to be fair, I agree. Most PC users should have one. Virtually all laptops ship with a good-to-decent trackpad, and more and more of them are following Apple’s lead in adding haptics (the force feedback technology that simulates the feel of a “click” when you press down). Desktop PCs, however, lack trackpads altogether — and that will be one of the key target markets for Hyper and its new peripheral.
The trackpad ships with utility software that can assign regions of the trackpad’s surface to perform tasks like gestures. The “click” sensation can be configured, and the utility software can even perform different tasks depending on much force you impart upon the surface. Gestures and multitouch appear to be supported as well.
Demonstrating a brand-new product is difficult, especially when it’s obviously going through its beta period. But the demonstration I saw at CES 2025 wasn’t impressive, with the executive practically leaning on the trackpad to enable clicks and repeatedly clicking to perform basic actions, like moving icons around on a screen.
Hyper’s trackpad makes sense for desktop users, who probably lack trackpad capability altogether unless they’ve already bought such a peripheral of their own. As for laptop users? I understand that engineers, artists, and content creators may have specialized needs, but I’m not sure Hyper made a compelling case.
It looks like Hyper will need to make several software and firmware revisions before the HyperSpace TrackPad Pro can become a winner. According to an executive, the TrackPad Pro will ship at the end of the second quarter of 2025 with a starting price of $129. Read...Newslink ©2025 to PC World |  |
|  | | PC World - 7 Jan (PC World)After a controversial launch on the desktop, Intel is debuting its Arrow Lake processor for laptops here at CES 2025, hoping that the chip’s emphasis on low power has a more welcome reception. It’s the first time the Core Ultra branding has been rolled out for gaming laptops.
And for those who have wondered when fanless chip cooling solutions will ever debut in the real world, Intel also has some news on that front. The company confirmed that it’s working with Ventiva’s silent cooling solution as well an undisclosed laptop maker as part of Intel’s “Evo” co-engineering program with its laptop partners.
Intel unveiled new chips in three different processor families: the Core U for thin-and-light laptops; the Core H for high performance laptops; and the Core HX for similarly high performance laptops, but geared towards gaming.
One Core Ultra Series 2 family, three CPU architectures
That these latter two families are largely built around the Arrow Lake architecture isn’t unusual; Intel said to expect mobile Arrow Lake chips last year. But the Arrow Lake-U Core Ultra 2 chips are built around a refreshed version of the Meteor Lake architecture found in first-gen Core Ultra chips, complete with that architecture’s low-power efficiency cores.
This summer, Intel debuted “Lunar Lake,” the Core Ultra Series 2 processor specifically designed for long battery life, powered by its own unique architecture. As our Lunar Lake tests proved, Intel’s chip kept up with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X processor platform quite well, both in performance and all-day battery life. AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 mobile platform, however, took the overall performance crown.
Put another way, Lunar Lake was a small step down in performance from the first Core Ultra chip, Meteor Lake. In our tests, an Asus ZenBook 14 OLED with a Core Ultra 7 155H chip inside outperformed an identical ZenBook with a Core 7 258V by 17 percent in a multithreaded test of Geekbench 6.3. The 155H outperformed Lunar Lake by about 39 percent on a single-threaded test.
Intel hopes these “Arrow Lake” Core Ultra Series 2 H-series chips can change the narrative.
Intel Core Ultra 200H, Intel’s chip for “performance” laptops
Intel is launching five new Core Ultra 200H processors, with 14 to 16 cores and threads. (These chips lack hyperthreading, too.) The Core Ultra 5 225H, the slowest of the family, runs at 4.9GHz; the fastest, the 285H, runs at 5.4GHz. The power draw ranges from 28 to 45W base power, and either 60W or 115W when in turbo mode.
Intel is saying the “next-gen” Lion Cove performance cores and Skymont efficiency cores inside this new family offer greater than 15 percent performance boosts in both single-threaded and multi-threaded performance compared to the Core Ultra 100H. It’s not clear whether they’ve received additional tuning, since Intel originally said that there was a 14 percent delta between Lion Cove and Meteor Lake’s performance core, known as Redwood Cove. These Core Ultra 200H chips do include the low-power efficiency cores of Meteor Lake, however.
Intel
They also include the updated second-gen Arc GPU that accompanied Arrow Lake, which delivers 15 percent better graphics performance than Meteor Lake, according to Intel vice president Josh Newman. Viewed from an AI perspective, that offers this latest collection of Core H chips up to 99 TOPS across the platform, including the GPU, NPU, and CPU.
Intel’s Arrow Lake desktop chip consists of compute, GPU, SOC, and I/O tiles along with a “filler” and “base” tile for stability — all linked together using Intel’s Foveros technology inside a single package. Presumably, the mobile Core Ultra 200H chips will be the same, too.
The H-series platform will offer a x8 PCI Express Gen 5 connection plus a pair of x4 PCI Express Gen 4 connections. Intel will provide four Thunderbolt 4 ports (double the typical two) and make discrete Thunderbolt 5 chips available to notebook manufacturers. Integrated Wi-Fi 6e is available, with Wi-Fi 7 as an option. Otherwise, Core Ultra 200H laptops will be able to connect to LPDDR5X-8400 memory, DDR5-6400 memory, and even LPDDR5/5X CAMM2 memory, for a total of 96GB (DDR5) and 64GB (LPDDR5).
Intel’s Core H chips will ship to customers later in the first quarter.
Intel Core Ultra 200HX: Intel’s gaming champion
Architecturally, Intel executives have said they consider the Arrow Lake-S desktop chip and the mobile Arrow Lake-HX for laptops essentially two versions of the same chip for the enthusiast PC segment — there are differences in the packaging, the power which they draw, and a few other software tweaks. Otherwise, they’re identical, Greg Boots, Arrow Lake’s product marketing manager, said at the Lunar Lake launch.
Intel
Intel isn’t saying much about the Core Ultra 200HX’s performance, but the combination of eight Lion Cove P-cores and 16 Skymont cores should boost performance by 5 percent in a single-threaded environment and 20 percent in multithreaded performance versus the previous Core-HX part, based on Intel’s 13th-gen Raptor Lake Refresh. “Enthusiast-level performance at lower power” is how Intel is putting it.
While desktop versions of Arrow Lake didn’t always ship alongside a discrete GPU, it’s much more common for a Core HX gaming notebook to include a discrete GPU. Those systems will be coming in “late Q1 2025,” Intel says, which probably means in March. You’ll have to wait until then for Intel to deliver its estimates of how well they’ll fare in gaming performance.
Intel will ship six Core HX chips, Newman said, from the Core Ultra 9 285HX (8 P cores, 16 E-Cores/24 threads, 5.5GHz) down to the Ultra 5 235HX (6 P-Cores, 8 E-Cores, 14 threads; 5.1GHz). They range from a base power of 15W on up to turbo power of 57W.
Compared to Intel’s 14th-gen Core HX parts, it’s not a clear win for Intel’s latest Core 200HX parts. The Core i9-14900HX, for example, offered the same 24 threads. That chip offered P-core turbo frequencies at up to 5.8GHz, versus the 5.5GHz on the Core Ultra 9 285HX. On the other hand, the 285HX runs the E-cores at up to 2.8GHz, significantly faster than the 2.2GHz minimum E-core speed of the i9-14900HX. (We expect more performance data soon, hopefully.)
From a platform point of view, a Core Ultra 200HX part will address the same memory configurations as the Core Ultra 200H parts — up to 64GB or 96GB of DDR5 and LPDDR5x, respectively. Intel gives laptop makers a x4 PCIe Gen 5 connection and four PCIe Gen 4 lanes, however, and only two Thunderbolt 4 ports to work with. Discrete Thunderbolt 5 is also available.
Intel is also disclosing that it will ship additional “Arrow Lake” S-series desktop products early in the first quarter, and deliver new laptops with new U-series chip for laptops, also based upon Arrow Lake.
Intel’s Arrow Lake U series fuse both Core Ultra processors
These U-series chips are interesting, as they represent an intriguing combination of Intel’s Core Ultra processors.
Intel
“The Intel Core Ultra 200U series processors utilize the Redwood Cove (P-core) architecture, which originally debuted in Intel Core Ultra Series 1 processors and Crestmont (E-core) architecture that is found throughout the Intel Core Ultra Series 2 family of processors,” an Intel spokesman said in an email. “However, the Intel Core Ultra 200U series is built on the Intel 3 process node, rather than the Intel 4 process used for Intel Core Ultra Series 1 processors, which helps improve performance of the processor overall.”
The Intel Core Ultra 200U series also features increased clock speed on the NPU, along with integrated Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 connectivity, the Intel spokesman added.
Intel also plans to ship commercial versions of the Core Ultra 200V series — the products that Intel rolled out as part of Arrow Lake “shortly after CES,” Intel’s Newman said. Finally, Newman said that the company’s Evo-certified program, which co-engineers laptops and PC peripherals with the device makers themselves, has now reached 24 vendors and over 70 devices. Read...Newslink ©2025 to PC World |  |
|  | | PC World - 7 Jan (PC World)The smart home security specialists at Ring have partnered with Kidde, a leader in the fire protection business since 1917, to develop a pair of new home safety devices that operate in the Ring ecosystem.
Bearing both the Kidde and Ring brands, the new Smoke Alarm ($54.97) and Combination Alarm (smoke plus carbon monoxide detection, $74.97) are equipped with Ring’s smart home technology and promise to deliver a more integrated, responsive, and user-friendly approach to fire and carbon monoxide safety.
This news is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best smart smoke detectors.
Both devices must be hardwired for power (there is currently no battery-powered SKU), but when multiple units are installed in the same home, if one goes off, all other “eligible” Kidde alarms on the same circuit will also sound off. In the event of a power outage, the devices will fall back to a pair of AA backup batteries.
Ring/Kidde
Since both alarms connect to the home’s Wi-Fi network and can be added to the Ring app, homeowners will also receive fire and CO alerts on their smartphones in real time. And should those backup batteries begin to fail, the Ring app will alert users as much as seven days before the detectors themselves issue a notification via chirping.
The two companies say Kidde’s advanced sensing technology also sets these devices apart, boasting 29 percent faster detection with three times the precision of competing alarms. The detectors are promised as being less susceptible to false alarms caused by cooking.
While the detectors don’t require the presence of a Ring Alarm or other smart home hub, buyers will need a Ring subscription of one form or another to receive real-time alerts and professional monitoring where an agent can call for first responders. Subscribers can also designate emergency contacts who will be notified in the event of an emergency.
Ring/Kidde
The least expensive option is Ring’s new $5-per-month 24/7 Smoke & CO Monitoring service, which will become available April 2, 2025. This same service will also work with the existing Ring Alarm Smoke & CO Listener ($34.99), which does depend on either a Ring Alarm or Ring Alarm Pro system.
However, if you already own a Ring Alarm system and also pay for either professional monitoring or Ring’s new Virtual Security Guard service, smoke and carbon monoxide monitoring service will be included with either subscription.
The Kidde/Ring Smart Smoke Alarm and Combination Smoke + CO Alarm will launch exclusively at Home Depot in April, with availability through additional retailers coming later in 2025. Read...Newslink ©2025 to PC World |  |
|  | | PC World - 7 Jan (PC World)Schlage, a leading home security brand, announced two new smart locks at CES today: the Schlage Sense Pro smart deadbolt and the Schlage Arrive smart Wi-Fi deadbolt. Both locks are designed to simplify home access and improve integration with smart home systems.
The Schlage Sense Pro smart deadbolt features Matter-over-Thread support, enabling integration with a wide range of smart home ecosystems from the likes of Amazon, Apple, Google, and Samsung SmartThings. It features Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology powered by the Schlage Converge system, allowing hands-free unlocking by detecting the user’s approach. The Sense Pro also features NFC tap-to-unlock, along with a keypad for PIN-based access.
The Schlage Sense Pro features Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology powered by the Schlage Converge system, allowing hands-free unlocking by detecting the user’s approach.
Schlage
The Schlage Arrive smart deadbolt is equipped with an illuminated push-button keypad and a built-in Wi-Fi adapter, eliminating the need for extra accessories. Users can manage up to 250 access codes remotely through the Schlage Home app, making it a convenient option for multi-door installations or homeowners trying out smart locks for the first time.
Schlage plans to release an updated version of its Home app in early 2025, adding features designed to simplify lock management. The new app will include an at-a-glance home view, single-button locking and unlocking, and tools for managing multiple properties from a single interface. These enhancements aim to streamline control of Schlage’s full line of smart locks, including the new Sense Pro and Arrive models, while offering greater convenience for users managing multiple doors or locations.
The Schlage Arrive includes a push-button keypad and built-in Wi-Fi.
Schlage
The introduction of the Schlage Sense Pro and Arrive smart locks reflects a broader trend in the home security industry toward smarter, more seamless solutions. Consumers increasingly expect devices that integrate effortlessly into their daily routines while providing reliable security and connectivity.
The Schlage Sense Pro smart deadbolt is slated for release later in 2025, while the Schlage Arrive smart Wi-Fi deadbolt is expected to launch in late spring 2025. For more details and updates, visit Schlage’s website at www.schlage.com. Read...Newslink ©2025 to PC World |  |
|  | | PC World - 6 Jan (PC World)Aiper is demonstrating the all-new Scuba X1 Pro Max robotic pool cleaner at CES. It’s the top dog in the company’s Scuba X series that promises to deliver performance a notch above the Scuba S1 Pro we reviewed—and very much liked—in July 2024.
Aiper says its advanced all-in-one pool-cleaning solution addresses every aspect of pool maintenance, sucking up leaves, grit, and other debris while scrubbing the algae from the pool’s walls, floor, and water line. The company maintains the bot can leave in-ground pools up to 3,230 square feet spotless on a single battery charge.
The Aiper Scuba X1 Pro MaxAiper
The Scuba X1 Pro Max measures 19.7 x 16.8 x 11.7 inches (500 x 428 x 298mm) and weighs a hefty 33 pounds (15kg). The cleaner features 24 ultrasonic sensors and the Aiper’s OmniSense+ 2.0 and FlexiPath 2.0 technologies for precise pool mapping. Powered by a quad-core processor, the cleaner adapts its path dynamically to navigate complex pool shapes, avoid obstacles and ensure comprehensive cleaning. Equipped with eight cleaning modes, it optimizes performance for various pool layouts and levels of debris.
The Scuba X1 Pro Max boasts 9 motors and delivers an impressive suction rate of 8,500GPH, which should capture even the most stubborn debris. Aiper’s MicroMesh Ultra-Fine Filter employs a multi-layer honeycomb structure to trap fine particles like sand and algae to maintain clear and clean water. Dual-jet stabilizing technology allows the cleaner to adhere to walls and scrub away stubborn stains.
Aiper’s HyrdoComm Pro monitors the pool’s water quality. Michael Brown/Foundry
For monitoring the quality of the water in your pool, Aiper offers the optional HydroComm Pro accessory. It floats on the pool’s surface and extends a probe below the water to test pH levels, ORP (Oxidation-reduction potential, a measure of how effectively the chlorinated water can destroy contaminants), ERP (Electrical Conductivity, a means of measuring the concentration of dissolved salts in the water), TDS (Total Dissolved Solids, a measure of all the dissolved solids in the water), and water temperature.
The HydroComm Pro charges its own battery, thanks to a solar panel embedded in its top surface, and it can communicate with the Scuba X1 Pro while the cleaner is under the water.
The Scuba X1 Pro Max should be available for purchase in mid-February for $2,299. An optional transport and storage caddy will arrive at the same time and be priced at $199. The HydroComm Pro Smart Pool Monitor is expected to ship in March and will cost $379. Read...Newslink ©2025 to PC World |  |
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