T3 India – August 2019

Horizon

GadgetGuru

56 T3 Tomorrow’s Technology Today AUGUST 2019 WWW.T3INDIA.COM

T3’s resident smart assistant

GADGET GURU should be heard and not seen

Thisisatoughquestion,

becausethereareso

manypotentialusesfor

asmarthomescreen,andseveral

platforms.Ifyou’retiedto

GoogleHome,youwon’twantan

Alexadevice,andviceversa.But

ifyou’rejuststartingoutfrom

scratch,GaGuleanstowards

Amazon’ssecond-genEcho

Show.Ithasthewidestrangeof

supportfromotherdevicessuch

assecuritycameras,tiesinto

Amazon’scheaperrangeof

visualEchos,andyoucanwatch

YouTubeonitthroughthebuiltin

browser.

That’snottodiscountthemuch

cheaperGoogleHomeHub(you

canimportit).Althoughthebig

Gputs‘theultimatedigitalphoto

frame’asitsmaindescriptor

(despitedigitalphotoframes

dyingajustifieddeathsometime

ago)it’sahighlycapablesmart

homecontrollerandadecent

kitchencompanion.

TheLenovoSmartDisplayisthe

onetogetforabigdisplaythat

comeswithGoogle’ssmarts,and

Which display should I add to my smart home?

RAM SHARMA

A

is the nicest hardware of all three.

Let’s go left-field, though. Guru

happens to find the colourful

pixels of the LaMetric Time very

attractive, and while it doesn’t

show your photos, it’s one of the

coolest displays around. Set it to

scroll your current Spotify track,

to display your gadget-depleted

bank balance, to show your

single-digit YouTube

subscribers... as its name

suggests, it’s a great way to

monitor metrics. But you can

also bang a button to pull in data

from all your smart home

appliances, use it to switch off

your lights, or cook up some

ILLUSTRATIONS: STEPHEN KELLY IFTTT routines.

Set it to scroll your current

Spotify track, set it to display

your depressing gadget-depleted

bank balance

ABOVE

Your home’s

super-brain

can do many

things your puny

human one can’t