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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Senior Reviewer, Smart Home

Senior Reviewer, Smart Home

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    Can Samsung Food usher in a new era for the smart kitchen?

    Wi-Fi-connected kitchen appliances have struggled to prove their worth, but Samsung’s not entirely new app could help realize the potential of connected cooking.

    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    ‘Hey robot, mow the lawn.’

    The Dreame Roboticmower A1, a new robot lawnmower, can tackle yards as large as half an acre, which is good news for us Americans with big yards.

    These electric autonomous grass-cutting devices have struggled to take off in the US due to range issues, complexity, and high costs.

    While Dreame’s bot may cost as much as $2,000 (pricing isn’t finalized) it uses lidar mapping so there’s no need for clunky beacons or fiddly guide wire.

    This robot lawnmower could take one more chore off your To Do.
    This robot lawnmower could take one more chore off your To Do.
    Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    Do the Smart Thing in the kitchen.

    We’re at Samsung’s IFA 2023 press conference in Berlin, where the tech giant isn’t launching a humongous new TV... but a new app.

    Samsung Food is a souped-up recipe app powered by generative AI that integrates with SmartThings and Samsung’s appliances to try and fill the gap between the idea of the smart, connected kitchen and well, the way we actually cook.

    We’ve got a deeper dive coming soon.

    Samsung’s smart home platform SmartThings takes center stage at the IFA 2023 press conference.
    Samsung’s smart home platform SmartThings takes center stage at the IFA 2023 press conference.
    Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge
    Alexa and Google Assistant are together at last on new JBL speakers

    Three new JBL smart speakers from Harman will be the first to offer simultaneous voice assistants, so you can ask Alexa to start the music and then ask Google to stop it.

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    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    Wyze may have a new wired video doorbell on the way.

    Tech blogger Dave Zatz has found renderings that imply Wyze might have a successor to its Wyze Video Doorbell (Wired) on the way.

    It looks like this one will ring your existing doorbell chime, something the current version doesn’t.

    There are no other details, but it’s likely to be closer to the Wyze Video Doorbell Pro feature-wise, with a top-to-bottom view, 1440x1440p image quality, and 5GHz Wi-Fi.

    <em>The rendering resembles Wyze’s current </em><a href="https://www.wyze.com/products/wyze-video-doorbell-pro?related_selling_plan=41618559008930"><em>Video Doorbell Pro</em></a><em>, which is battery-powered and can be wired but doesn’t work with existing chime boxes.</em>
    <em>This rendering indicates it will be a wired doorbell.</em>
    <em>This rendering implies the new doorbell will have a chime box, which means it should work to ring your existing doorbell chime. The current wired doorbell bypasses the doorbell chime.</em>
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    The rendering resembles Wyze’s current Video Doorbell Pro, which is battery-powered and can be wired but doesn’t work with existing chime boxes.
    Image: Wyze via Dave Zatz