7 must-have smart home devices for 2017

**Note: Believe it or not, we're not being paid by any of these products to write this post. We genuinely just love all these devices. That being said, if anyone wants to pay us retroactively, we totally wouldn't mind.** Today we live in the future. Well, not really, but sometimes it sure does feel like it, …

The one vital secret to making your house a smart home

Remember that Disney Channel movie called Smart House? Some kid wins a whole house—complete with artificial intelligence and total automation. Wouldn't that be nice! Of course, the house turns out to be evil, but who didn't watch this movie and think, I need that house! Eighteen years later and now Best Buy has a whole section …