Samsung buys SmartThings to boost its connected home potential
The smart home company, which makes home appliances app-controllable, will be run as an independent entity
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Start Friday off right by catching up with the latest tech happenings around
Fully Charged: Explore Tate Britain at night (via a web-controlled robot), the next Tomb Raider is an Xbox exclusive, and Kojima’s Silent Hill surprise
Games and art-admiring robots drive our latest morning news roundup
Help crowdfund this car-juggling giant robot today!
Kickstarter project will help build a smaller, cannonball-chucking prototype of the 70-foot BugJuggler
Honda’s Asimo robot becomes faster and smarter
Upgrades transform Honda’s electric child into something that’s scarily human
Nest Labs and Samsung join forces for Thread connected home standard
Secure and low-powered network will link up all of your flat’s smart tech
Smappee energy monitor tells you exactly which appliance is eating up your electricity
Fix it to your meter’s main cable and it’ll swiftly learn to identify individual gadgets
Droplet: a smarter, cheaper way to water your garden
Ditch your hosepipe and slash your water consumption by up to 90 percent with this Wi-Fi equipped sprinkler
Banish closing time forever with the Synek beer dispenser
Counter-top tap system recreates American-style craft brew pub in your own home
Fully Charged: NASA aims to capture an asteroid in 2019, Nest acquires Dropcam, and the crazy GoPro-filmed car crash
Start off the week with a diverse hodgepodge of hot tech news
Honeywell’s Lyric smart thermostat knows exactly when you’re heading home
Watch out Nest, Tado and British Gas: there’s a new way to get smartphone-controlled heating in the home
