Tour our smart home reviewer’s smart backyard

Esther, the chicken, facing a Segway robot lawnmower. | Photo: Alex Parkin / The Verge

When The Verge's elder astute location reviewer, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, offered to springiness america a circuit of her astute backyard, I was thrilled. Firstly, I person ne'er seen a technologically precocious backyard curated by an manufacture adept before, and secondly, I wasn't adjacent definite what to expect. My imaginativeness of a astute location includes automated vacuums, a astute thermostat, and possibly 1 of those AI fridges that suggests recipes - each of which enactment wrong controlled environments and are built astir making beingness wrong much comfortable. So I recovered myself repeatedly asking, "How precisely bash astute devices marque thing arsenic unyielding arsenic outside, comfortable?"

I …

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.