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Digital Mundane

Seeking efficiency, consumers turn to mobile methods of everyday chores

Implications - While maintaining household and familial obligations is often top priority, daily responsibilities can weigh heavily on consumers looking for ways to relax and unwind. Seeking to maintain everyday efficiency in a more convenient manner, consumers are turning to mobile apps and high-tech gadgets to manage such things as cooking and appliances in a more pragmatic way. Mobile methods of at-home management speak to a desire for less time-consuming, and more digitally efficient techniques of everyday living.
Trend Themes
1. Mobile Methods of At-home Management - Consumers are turning to mobile apps and high-tech gadgets to manage household appliances in a more pragmatic way.
2. Smart Home Automation - The development of smart home automation products such as light switches, home-controlling blocks, and appliance-controlling adapters to make home automation simple, efficient, and customizable.
3. Healthy Cooking Contraptions - The emergence of healthy cooking contraptions such as the Mellow cooker to provide consumers with added convenience and precision in cooking their meals.
Industry Implications
1. Home Automation - The home automation industry benefits from increasing demand for efficient and customizable home-controlling gadgets and devices.
2. Mobile Technology - The mobile technology industry benefits from consumers' use of mobile apps to manage household appliances efficiently.
3. Cooking and Kitchen Appliances - The cooking and kitchen appliances industry is disrupted by innovative contraptions and appliances that offer precision cooking and healthy meal options.
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Home-Controlling Light Switches
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Coming home to a dark house isn’t just a little unnerving but also a little bit dangerous, which is where the WeMo Light Switch can come in handy for easily adding seamless automation to your... MORE
Integrated Concierge-Style Cookers
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The NUKE Cooking System Does It All While Keeping You Safe
The NUKE cooking system is a one-of-a-kind system that gives users peace of mind while providing fragrant and delicious food at the touch of a button. Savannah College student Talia Brigneti has... MORE
Home-Controlling Phone Apps
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The ‘Benki App-Enabled Smart Kit’ is a phone add-on that permits users to connect appliances to their cellphones. Smartphones already serve a myriad of purposes in our lives from serving... MORE
Digital Home-Controlling Blocks
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The 'DigitalSTROM' Uses Smart Blocks To Control Your Home
The idea behind swiss company, DigitalSTROM, is to integrate technology with your home. The tiny LEGO-like blocks aren’t your average child’s play toy, they are actually extremely... MORE
Digital Heat-Monitoring Cooking Aids
Digital Heat-Monitoring Cooking Aids
The iDevice Kitchen Thermometer Premiered at CES 2014
The iDevice Kitchen Thermometer will help improve your cooking skills while you chill out in another room. This gadget is a little like the recently revealed iGrill that launched at the start of the... MORE
play_circle_filledAppliance-Controlling Adapters
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The Zuli Smartplug Turns Lights on Automatically When You Enter
Among other many features, the Zuli Smartplug can activate your reading light automatically when you take a seat in your living room. It can turn turn on your porch lights when you’re out of... MORE
Healthy Cooking Contraptions
Healthy Cooking Contraptions
The 'Mellow' Cooker Uses Sous-Vide Cooking to Produce Meals to Order
The ‘Mellow’ is a machine that uses sous-vide cooking techniques to cook meals to order. Sous-vide is a cooking method in which food is sealed in airtight bags and heated in a water bath.... MORE

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