Readers Choice Awards 2025: Your favorite smart home brands
Home products have gotten much “smarter” in recent years. According to Statista, smart home penetration will reach 89.5 percent in 2025, and will hit 99 percent by 2029. That means virtually every household in the U.S. is using some form of smart home device. We’ve come a long way since the days of The Clapper. Smart […]
Readers Choice: The battle of the smart home assistants
In case you missed it, we polled our readers on the smart home tech they use and love. The results are in, and your favorite smart home brands have been revealed. As part of that survey, we also asked our readers about their smart assistants of choice, pitting Alexa against Siri and Google Home. This […]
Readers Choice: Your favorite smart security cameras
Mashable recently introduced our first-ever Readers’ Choice Awards, where we polled our readers on the smart home tech they use and love. The final results are in, and your favorite smart home brands have been revealed. You can check out our full results, but we also asked readers about specific smart home products, like security […]
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Your favorite smart lights: TP-Link is a Mashable Readers Choice Award winner
In Mashable’s Smartest Home Readers’ Choice survey, we asked our readers about the smart home devices and gadgets they use. One of the easiest entry points into smart homes is smart lighting, thanks to its relative affordability and ease of use. A winner among Mashable readers is TP-Link, a budget-friendly smart light brand. Just a […]
Philips Hue is a Readers Choice Award winner: Why readers like the smart light brand
We recently polled Mashable readers about the smart home products they use in their homes, and the results are in. One of the easiest entry points into smart home devices is smart lighting. Smart bulbs are relatively inexpensive and easy to integrate into everyday use — whether you use a smart assistant for voice commands or […]
iRobot Roomba is your favorite robot vacuum brand, survey says
Our product experts love to test the latest robot vacuums and stick vacuums from top brands, and we certainly have our favorites. But, through our Readers’ Choice survey, we wanted to hear about which vacuum cleaners Mashable readers use in their homes. Unsurprisingly, iRobot Roomba was named one of the top vacuum brands — Roomba […]
Amazons Alexa is a Mashable Readers Choice Award winner
You can’t have a conversation about smart home devices without including Amazon’s Alexa in the picture. As of 2025, the number of Amazon Echo users is expected to reach about 69.9 million, and as of 2024, the Echo is the most popular smart speaker in the U.S., according to Electro IQ. We surveyed our readers […]
Mashable readers crowned Google Assistant as their favorite smart home assistant
As smart home products become more integrated into U.S. homes, they need the best smart home hub to operate successfully. Smart assistants act as the centralized brain for a smart home, connecting to various devices so you can set routines, use voice commands, and more to seamlessly operate your gadgets. We polled our readers to […]