I’m really happy Google’s now making hardware because if there was any company with a taste for what good products should look and feel like, it’s everyone’s favourite search engine. One of their latest products is this guy, the Google Home Mini and it’s the cutest smart home device I’ve ever seen.

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As a product, Google Home has seen over 50 updates which added new features and functions among other things. Now, Google‘s giving it even more goodies with four big changes. Here they are.

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Google unveils their take on the home personal assistant — Google Home. It is a fully voice controlled hub that lets you enjoy music and entertainment throughout your entire house, manage everyday tasks and ask Google what you want to know.

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We all live in homes and we all want secure homes. But with doors, windows and grills, one can only do so much to protect their own home. Let’s face the facts, break-ins happen all over the world though it doesn’t hurt to have some sort of surveillance system around your compound.

Meet the Netatmo Presence, a smart outdoor security camera released at CES 2016.

Wait, another “smart” home-monitoring system that has a motion detector? Well yeah but this one can identify the differences between a person, animal and car.

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Xiaomi has introduced a new Smart home product with a bedside lamp that lets you customise its colour to any colour of your choice. Priced at 249 CNY (about RM150), it is cheaper than a single Philips Hue bulb and it lets you pick from 16 million colours via a smart phone or its dial located at the top.

The Yeelight Bedside Lamp uses high quality OSRAM lamp beads which offers a variety of colour illuminations. The spinner at the top lets you adjust colour temperature and brightness to suit your mood. Power consumption wise, it is quite frugal as it uses just 10 Watts. The Yeelight Bedside Lamp goes on sale in China next week and you can check out their product page over here.

View the product video and images after the break.

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Xiaomi is rapidly increasing its product offering beyond smart phones, tablets and wearables. After introducing its wireless game controller and blood pressure monitor, they have set their sights on the smart home with 4 new devices – Ants Smart Webcam, Mi Smart power plug, Yee Smart light bulb and Mi Smart remote centre.

For a start, they are offering 100 units of its smart webcam and smart power plug for free next Monday.

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