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  • Smarthome's May Home Automation Month Helps Consumers Take Control of Their Electricity Bills
  • Business Wire (5/1/2007)
  • Research by the California Energy Commission shows that lighting accounts for about 22 percent of home electricity use. Smarthome, a division of SmartLabs, Inc. and the world's leading provider of home automation products, is helping consumers save money and energy during its May Home Automation Month. Additionally, it will run a contest to find consumers who are using INSTEON technology to control their "smart home."
  • NextGen 'Industry Trends' Demonstration Home Only One of Its Kind at the World's Largest Industry Kitchen & Bath Show
  • PRNewswire (5/1/2007)
  • LAS VEGAS, May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- From May 8 -10, more than 40,000 visitors to the annual Kitchen and Bath Industry Show & Conference (K/BIS) -- the world's largest international trade event dedicated to the kitchen and bath industry -- will be invited to venture beyond the typical show booth and into a completely finished home built right on the show floor of the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.The only show home of its kind at K/BIS, the NextGen "Industry Trends" Home Experience (http://www.nextgenhome.com/) will be part of the NKBA's (National Kitchen and Bath Association) Industry Trends Marketplace. The NextGen "Industry Trends" home is a perfect fit with the theme for this year's KBIS -- explore.
  • Sound Options When You're Moving or Sitting Still
  • Richmond Times - Dispatch (4/30/2007)
  • Altec Lansing inMotion iM600The worst part about drinking beer on my front porch is that there's been no way to get my stereo speakers outside to listen to tunes.Altec Lansing's inMotion iM600 is a speaker dock for iPods with one major asset: a 7-hour, rechargeable lithium-ion battery inside.
  • Vizio Model Has Right Price If You Have Right Place
  • Buffalo News (4/30/2007)
  • The VM60P, a gargantuan 60-inch plasma framed in bronze, might be the most audacious set yet from HD TV industry irritant Vizio.The VM60P's picture quality won't dethrone plasmas from Panasonic or Pioneer, but this set is good enough -- and big enough -- so that the price dazzles. And, as part of the company's sales promotions for such events as March Madness, the VM60P's price tag dropped to $2,600 at Costco.
  • Hear the Difference!
  • Business Wire (4/30/2007)
  • Genius (www.geniusnetusa.com), a division of KYE Systems Corp., announced today the availability of two new speakers designed to meet the needs of both gamers and music fans. Genius' SW-i2.1 1100 is a three-piece speaker system that delivers high-fidelity, distortion-free sound, easily complementing any PC gaming system. With a wired remote control, an earphone jack and a low price of $49.90, the SW-i2.1 1100 is a PC gaming audio solution suitable for any budget.
  • Remote Patrol
  • Virginian - Pilot (4/30/2007)
  • By KATE GOODLOE and JOHN JURGENSENFrom their home in Wenham, Mass., cameras send the couple live images, and monitors send text messages when the house gets too chilly. In October, AT&T launched a $9.95 monthly service called Remote Monitor that beams streaming video from homecams to cell phones and can send customized text-message alerts whenever there's movement in particular rooms.
  • For all home electrical systemsLagotek and Leviton Announce Integration and Joint Marketing Agreement for Vizia-RF and Lagotek Home Intelligence Platform
  • ebuild (4/27/2007)
  • Lagotek and Leviton Manufacturing today announced the integration of Leviton's Vizia-RF series of lighting and home control products with Lagotek's Home Intelligence Platform (HIP), a wireless whole home automation system. The combination of products provides a new level of quality and integration for all home electrical systems including lighting, zoned climate control, distributed audio, monitoring and surveillance, home entertainment, irrigation, shade and blind controls and security system integration. Vizia-RF includes advanced switches, dimmers, and plug-in modules controlled through Z-Wave, an industry standard wireless protocol.
  • The Acenti Line ExtensionLeviton Expands Award-Winning Acenti Collection with Exclusive Sixplex Receptacle and New Switches
  • eplans (4/27/2007)
  • Leviton Manufacturing Company has expanded its line of Acenti wiring devices and lighting controls with the addition of an industry-exclusive Sixplex Surge Protective Receptacle and five electromechanical switches. The product additions bring the total number of devices in the Acenti Collection to more than 75 premium-grade products. Introduced in January 2005, the highly acclaimed, award- winning Acenti Collection offers residential and commercial wiring devices, lighting controls, voice and data devices and wallplates that seamlessly blend with the sophisticated décor of modern, upscale homes and commercial interiors. Acenti is the first new form factor for wiring devices since Leviton introduced its Decora line of designer-styled devices and controls.

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