Add (Tech) Value to Your Home

Our favorite techie, Cat Schwartz, weighs in on how to add value and a futuristic touch to your home with some choice electronics, like Energy Star-rated Appliances, multi-tasking computers and "smart-home technology" that allows you to control appliances from a central location.

 

Click the links below to search for some of Cat's favorite products at eBay:

Kalorik Appliances

Touch Screen Computer -- try Dell Studio

Mobicam Baby Monitors

Smart Home

 

You can also find more tech advice at Cat's blog HiTechMommy.

tags: tips of the trade , cat schwartz

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SarahatDell
18 May 2009
6:58 PM

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@lumiere You can also find the full product details on Dell.com. The Dell Studio One 19 is available starting at $699 without touch and $799 with touch. With up to 4GB of memory, an optional TV tuner, and an HD widescreen it is perfect for watching TV, movies, listening to music, you name it!

CatSchwartz
17 May 2009
1:33 PM

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All of the products I talked about on the show can be found on my site, HiTechMommy. com

How about I set up a home office next?? Got any other ideas?

Cat

lumiere
17 May 2009
9:24 AM

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Hi Cat,

You're the reason I decided to subscribe to openhousenyc right during the show today.

I need help to upgrade my life, my home and certainly my technological gadgetry. My multifunction fax/copier/printer is dead. My computer is on crutches and sometimes on life support - doesn't back up, doesn't open pictures files, etc. etc. you get the picture!

Your big screen computer looks and sounds great. What's the memory capacity? Can one also watch TV on it? and download movies from TV onto its hard drive and then perhaps copy them on to a DVD?

and certainly not trivial or irrelevant question: how much does it cost?



travismelvin
17 May 2009
8:58 AM

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I love watching open house nyc Sunday Mornings. Where can I find out more about the specific brand and type of smart home technology Cat mentioned that plug into your outlets and can be accessed by your phone? We are buying a new apartment in Manhattan and I would love to reduce our energy consumption with these.

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