Best Buy brings together smart home and IOT partners

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Best Buy recently outfitted a four story townhouse in downtown Toronto with various connected home and Internet of Things appliances designed around security, monitoring, remote-control and convenience. Bringing together various vendors like Nest, Canary, Piper, Swann, Arlo, Myfox, Philips, Playbulb, August, Chamberlain, Rachio and others, the big box retailer demoed how these smart home devices work independently and together.

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Enhanced editions of all Harry Potter Books coming to iBooks for iOS devices

Harry Potter fans the world over can now revisit J.K. Rowling's epic tale of wizards and sorcery as all seven installments of Harry Potter are available on iBooks for the first time.

Harry Potter fans will also find annotations throughout their literary journey, written by the author herself. 

“I’m thrilled to see the Harry Potter books so beautifully realized on iBooks for the digital world; the artwork and animations in these enhanced editions bring the stories alive in a delightful new way,” said J.K. Rowling

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Video: HP's ENVY 8 tablet and keyboard combo offers ultimate portable productivity

Many believe 8-inches to be the sweet spot when it comes to tablets. That is, they are usually compact enough to hold in one hand and a good size for consuming video as well as short interactions with social media, email, and games. For typing, not so much. Usually the smaller keyboards designed around these small tablets are ergonomic nightmares that suck the joy out of typing. HP's ENVY 8 Windows 10 tablet tries to give users both. A full-featured Windows 10 device (with 4G-LTE connectivity to boot) and an accessory keyboard that's more for a 10-inch device and stable. Check out the design video above, this device is going to be on many people's want list come Novemember when it ships.

New ‘Sherlock’ trailer sets the mood for the upcoming special

While we know that the new Christmas special of BBC’s Sherlock is set in the 19^th century. We don’t know too many details about this Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat creation. Aside from seeing them in their Victorian garb (and John Watson’s moustache comeback), we sense the somewhat darker mood of the show. There is a mystery to be solved as we can see but aside from that, there isn’t much we can say. But, of course, it isn’t Sherlock without a few jokes and potshots at the leads’ expense, like Holmes’ famous hat.

Source: Slate