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GearBrain sat down with Handy's CEO and Co-Founder, Oisin Hanrahan, to discuss smart home services and the impact they are having on the market.  Listen to  Oisin's insight on how important the role of home service professionals is for today's consumers looking to build a smart home. Learn about how consumers are getting in person support to help with setting up their smart locks or any of these new smart gadgets which can automate your home.  Handy is a growing company with an important service for consumers needing help in building the right connected home.  For more information on Handy and smart home market, feel free to visit GearBrain.com, your roadmap to a new connected life.

In part three of our discussion with Tom Brown of Flex, we explore trends in the smart home and digital health space.  Tom shares with us his insights on smart kitchens and "dead fronts", the type of smart appliances you will start to see in smart home kitchens.  We also discuss other key trends that will impact the way consumers build, operate and secure your smart homes in the near future.  Tune-in and listen.  We are sure you will learn something that will help you save money and live a new connected life.

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In Part Two of our discussion with Tom Brown of Flex on Smart Home and Digital health trends, Tom provides his insights on wearables and how these smart devices are changing the way we live today.  See how smart health gadgets with sensors will be used to monitor our aging population as well as integrated into the smart home.  We also discuss new devices which will be coming to market later this year.  In our next episode with Flex, we will explore the use of augmented and virtual reality in the smart home market.  

To learn more about smart home devices, health wearables, fitness trackers, AR and VR, subscribe to our channel or visit www.gearbrain.com. 

GearBrain sat down with Tom Brown of Flex International to discuss Smart Home Trends.  Flex is a leading provider of design and manufacturing company which helps companies transform their ideas into intelligent solutions worldwide. They have helped designed, developed and manufacturer many of the IoT devices and systems you use today.  Since Flex hears and sees many of the ideas of future products months before they hit the market, we thought it would be helpful to hear from them on what's the next big thing in IoT for consumers.  In Part One, Tom provides his insights on where the smart home market is heading and the type of devices we can expect to see later this year from leading manufacturers of smart connected devices.  He will provide his take on smart kitchens and other new gadgets which will turn your life into a connected one.  

In Part Two, Tom will offer his insights on digital health and wearables.  So don't forget to check that out next week.

In this podcast, GearBrain helps you learn the basics on securing your smart devices.  Whether its a smart lock, light, or any connected device on your home Wi-Fi network, we will assist you in learning what you need to do in order to secure the wireless signal and prevent hackers or unwanted guest from getting into your home, access to your privacy or data.  You can also visit GearBrain to learn more about security and IoT. 

GearBrain's Alistair Charlton provides a review of Mobvoi's new TicWatch S2 and E2 smartwatches.  Alistair talks about how these smartwatches work and points out all the features which include running Google's WearOS and have a whole host of feature-friendly features like GPS, swim tracking, and heart rate monitors.  And on top of that, they are both a good value at under $200.  

You can see Alistair's full review on GearBrain.com: https://www.gearbrain.com/mobvoi-ticw.  If interested in buying either of these smartwatches, you can purchase them on Amazon (S2= https://amzn.to/2Gcsap5 and E2=https://amzn.to/2RCDJXX)  For more information on other smart home switches, tools and devices, you can  follow us on social media:  Twitter: https://twitter.com/gearbrain  Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/gearbraininc/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GearBraininc/  LinkedIn: https://www.linke din.com/company/gearbrain/ 

In previous episodes of GearBrain's podcasts, we talked about ways to make your dorm room smart.  In this episode we discuss what smart devices are essential for students to have to make their dorm room smart.  We will give you our recommendations on the connected devices you should have in your dorm room and how to effectively use them.  We will also let you know which manufacturers make the best connected devices for your dorm room, such as Philips Hue smart lights, WeMo smart plugs and iRobot Roomba smart vacuums.  

You can also visit www.gearbrain.com to learn more about these devices and any other connected device which can help you live a more connected lifestyle.

When it comes to smart speakers, most people think of Google Home or Amazon Echo.  People forget Apple's Siri was one of the first voice platforms to hit the market but not through a speaker but your smartphone.  Today, Apple is selling their own smart speaker called Apple HomePod.  In this episode, GearBrain will talk about all the things you can do with a HomePod and compare it to the other smart speakers on the market.  We will also discuss how Apple's Siri voice platform stacks up to Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa and Microsoft's Cortana voice platforms.  You can visit www.gearbrain.com for more information on Apple HomePod, other smart speakers and information on how these new devices can change your life.

Are you thinking of getting a smart speaker assistant but not sure if Amazon Echo or Google Home is the one for you?  Do you want to know the difference between Google Home Mini and Amazon Echo Dot?  What's a smart speaker display?   And is there a difference between Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Apple's Siri and Microsoft Cortana?  If yes to any of these questions, you need to listen to this podcast. GearBrain will help you learn everything you need to know about these new smart devices and help you decide on which is the right one for your home or office.  We will talk about how these new voice platforms are also being embedded into non-smart devices, like a refrigerator or smoke detector, to make them smart.   You will learn how easy it is to setup and connect these smart speakers to your current connected devices.  

You can also visit www.gearbrain.com to learn more about smart speakers as well as other connected devices for your home, car, office and self (i.e. wearables).  Our mission is to help simplify IoT for consumers and provide information on the connectivity and compatibility of all these new connected devices.

Smart video doorbells are essential connected devices for today's smart home.  These devices can help you communicate with visitors when you are not home as well as alert you when unwanted guest might be lurking around your front door on on your front porch.  But, there are several things you need to know before you buy one for your house.  GearBrain will help you learn not only how these devices work but will offer advice on what you need to know before you buy.  There is nothing worse than buying a device and bringing it home to find it will not work with your current home wiring or connectivity.  We will solve this for you and make it easy to get the right video doorbell for your new smart home.  Also, feel free to visit GearBrain.com to learn more about smart video doorbells and other connected devices for your home, car, office or yourself (i.e. wearables like fitness trackers and smartwatches.)