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Arlo Technologies Ultra 4K
Price: $530
From: amazon.com
This little wireless camera shoots 4K video and automatically zooms and tracks movement in its 180-degree field of view.
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Awair Element
Price: $149
From: getawair.com
The Awair Element is a new indoor air quality monitor that looks like a retro radio.It has five different air quality sensors, allowing it to measure things like temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and other microscopic particulate matter (PM2.5).
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Awair Glow C
Price: $89
From: amazon.com
The Awair Glow C isn’t just a smart plug; it’s an air quality monitor that measures the temperature, humidity and overall air quality of the room.
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Eve Energy Strip
Price: $80
From: amazon.com
Not only will this be the most-impressive plug you’ve ever owned, but it’s also likely to be the prettiest. It has an aluminum frame and a black matte body, and it recently won a 2019 Red Dot Award for product design.
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iDevices Instinct
Price: $100
From: amazon.com
The iDevices Instinct ($100) is a smart light switch with Alexa built-in. You can manually switch on/off the light by pressing the button, or you can speak directly to “Alexa” and turn the light on/off. No need to have an actual Echo or Echo Dot speaker within shouting distance.
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iRobot Roomba S9
Price: $1,099
From: amazon.com
iRobot, makers of the Roomba robo-vacuums and the Braava robo-mops, combined the two. The new S-Series vacuum adds more suction, a corner-hugging design and the robo-vacuum industry’s first-ever anti-allergen system.
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Philips Hue Filament
Price: $25+
From: bestbuy.com
The Philips Hue 2019 range added three Edison-style lightbulbs, which combine 19th-century aesthetics with 21st-century innovation.
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Philips Hue Smart Bulbs with Bluetooth
Price: $15+
From: bestbuy.com
Buying into the Philips’s smart lighting system once meant purchasing bulbs and an almost-$50 hub, but its bulbs now work all by themselves via Bluetooth.
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Phyn Smart Water Assistant
Price: $15+
From: bestbuy.com
Phyn makes one of the least sexy smart gadgets in the smart home market. It’s also one of the most useful. The Phyn Smart Water Assistant is the most affordable and most convenient smart water monitoring system you can buy.
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Remo+ RemoBell S
Price: $99
From: amazon.com
The RemoBell S costs just $99, which undercuts most other video doorbells on the market by some margin.
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Sevenhugs Smart Remote U
Price: $200
From: bestbuy.com
The Smart Remote U is a new smart remote that’s substantially more affordable than the Sevenhugs’s original-and-newly-renamed Smart Remote X. Both smart remotes look similar, boasting that sleek, all-touchscreen design that Sevenhugs has become known for.
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Wyze Sense Starter Kit
Price: $20
From: wyze.com
The Wyze Sense costs $20 and consists of two contact sensors (for doors or windows), a motion sensor and the Wyze Bridge, a device that plugs into the back of one of your Wyze security cameras (either a WyzeCam or a Wyze Cam Pan).
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Wyze Smart Lock
Price: $90
From: wyze.com
Wyze’s first smart lock costs just $90, which is significantly cheaper than most other smart locks by Nest, August and Schlage.
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