SwitchBot, which made its bones with a tiny button-pressing smart home robot, loves a niche. Sure, it makes its share of ...

A shopping writer’s mom is the best frugal shopper she knows, so she’s using her tips to find Wayfair furniture at great prices. Shop accent chairs, dressers, coffee tables, and more up to 78 percent ...

Even the biggest ship rolls in rough water, so container stacks rely on standardized corner castings and twist locks to turn thousands of boxes into one rigid structure. This breaks down how the oval ...

Abstract: A new robust motion tracking control design framework for uncertain synchronous motors based on differential flatness, artificial neural networks, sliding modes and swarm intelligence, is ...

Abstract: In this paper, an Improved Integral Power Rate Exponential Reaching Law (IIPRERL) Sliding Mode Control strategy has been presented to cater to the chattering problem and stability issue with ...

Grace Cooper is a writer who specializes in shopping. Her work has appeared in The Kitchn, Apartment Therapy, Culinary Hill, and more. As someone who rents an apartment, I miss having outdoor space to ...

Kitchen planning isn’t about looks—it’s about movement, workflow, and mistakes you don’t want to live with. Once the walkout patio is poured, access and elevation are locked in. This stage forces ...

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You’ve probably read plenty of recent news stories about how San Francisco is a failed city. Our infrastructure is crumbling, our streets are scary, our social fabric is torn and frayed. Most of that ...

Yearn to watch movies in the backyard—whether bundled up with the patio heater on or during balmy summer evenings? Almost any modern projector can make an outside wall a cinema, but a growing number ...

Sliding doors have been dependent largely on clunky security bars that force users to bend down to operate them. Thankfully, now someone is looking at it with a different perspective – not the ...

When you check into your hotel, you might want to ask where your room is located. Chahanler Marks wishes he had when he stayed in a hotel in St. Louis recently. He ended up on the ground floor, in a ...