Electric Imp unveils cloud-based home automation: now you can burn your toast from Tokyo

May 16, 2012 10:00 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Home automation is a hot category that just got even hotter. And possibly, just a bit easier. Today Electric Imp is announcing the Imp, a cloud-based approach to monitoring and managing everything you own.

The venture-backed startup in Los Altos, …

Microsoft’s HomeOS brings smarter homes, blue hallway of death

April 30, 2012 5:17 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

Microsoft’s research division comes up with some pretty cool stuff, like its Holoflector augmented reality mirror, but its latest project is much more homely.

To be more precise, the company debuted HomeOS today, an operating system designed to make …