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Building the Future of Smart Home Security

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This is particularly true for devices that provide security with 38 percent of Americans owning a home security product. It redefined the home security space by introducing wireless, DIY products and pioneered giving customers the ability to monitor their homes via a smartphone app.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

Straubel ’s August 2006 preview of the company’s Roadster at a chapter meeting. “We We filled the place, which had a 225-person capacity,” said Jerry Pohorsky, another former EVA board member who has served as EAASV chapter president for 11 of the past 13 years. It’s a very strong spirit.” It was very technical but captivating.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

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CalCars supports conversion programs as a strategy to increase awareness and support for PHEVs and thereby motivate automakers to build production PHEVs. Our goal is to enable owners to enlist a local electrician/engineer to convert their cars, initially with lead-acid batteries, for under $6,000 and less than two person-weeks of time. (We

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

Cars That Think

Hasbro thought that our balancing robot idea could become a great consumer product, so they made the investment to start turning Flexo into something that could be sold as a toy. On right, the first AMP prototype, called Glass Man, built in 2006. The product was to be named A.M.P., in 2005 with Hasbro as our first customer.