A team of engineers from Virginia Tech College of Engineering recently won a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study volume loss and develop smart prosthetic sockets to ...

More and more HomeKit peripherals ship each day with lighting ones being the most common — where does the Koogeek Smart Socket land on the spectrum? The recently released Smart Socket plugs into ...

Smart sockets that let you control an electrical plug over the internet may sound cutting edge, but they can also be rife with security flaws. One such plug was found vulnerable to hacks.

If you have Amazon Echo, Google Home, or Apple HomePod smart speakers in your home, you’ll love being able to turn sockets on and off with voice commands. You can’t just plug anything into a ...

With the socket, those lights will get smart dimming controls and you'll get the ability to control them with your phone or voice — plus the device has a nice nightlight built right into it.

You can buy special Philips Hue bulbs, change wall switches with Lutron or Elgato, or plug in lamps to a smart plug socket. The Koogeek Smart Socket is a different approach to the same problem.

The MIJIA Smart Socket 3 Smart Socket 3 is a low-energy device up to 10A. It cannot be used for 16A appliances like refrigerators, water heaters, and so on. Possibly, a higher model could be in ...

successfully integrated wireless Internet technology into a smart socket. Now you can do things like turn your washing machine off from your office, allowing you to easily manage your electric ...

But there's a fundamental question I've been unable to answer: When is the Socket consistently more useful than a smart switch or bulb? The $80 price tag only adds to my befuddlement, since you ...

BBC Click's Lara Lewington looks at a new smart socket for charging devices. When the device is fully charged the smart socket automatically cuts out saving electricity. The main use is currently ...