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Reviewer, Smart Home

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy is The Verge’s Smart Home Reviewer. She covers all areas of home automation and connected gadgets, from robot vacuums and video doorbells to smart lighting and locks. She joined The Verge in 2021 and is a leading expert on the smart home standard Matter.

A journalist for three decades, she’s covered the smart home since 2013, writing for The New York Times: Wirecutter, Dwell, Wired, The Ambient, BBC Science Focus, and US News & World Report, among others. She started her career on London’s Fleet Street with The Daily Telegraph newspaper before moving to Sun Valley, Idaho, where she worked in local news for ten years. She now lives in South Carolina with her husband, two children, a dog, two cats, a rabbit, and several chickens. Follow her on the socials at:

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Robot vacuums just keep growing

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy Jan 11

Rincewind is in the house!

Meet Julien Navas, dressed as a Conehead wizard to promote VideoLAN’s new automatic subtitle generation and translation for VLC.

I tracked down the colorful character in the French section of Eureka Park in the dying moments of CES 2025.

Here, I saw Ricky Gervais’s Golden Globe speech being translated into Japanese in real-time, locally and offline — a feature the team says is coming to VLC later this year.

Julien Navas has developed Cone Fused, an online Game Boy game, to promote the non-profit VideoLAN. Finish it first and win a 24-carat gold Game Boy.

Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy Jan 10

This mechanical keyboard can control your smart home.

ThirdReality’s MK1 Magic Keyboard ($80, launching March) is a Matter smart button. Ingenious!

The function keys are programmable buttons. Just press to activate a scene or control smart devices like lights through Apple Home, SmartThings, or Home Assistant. Mechanical keyboard / smart home nerds rejoice!

This smart keyboard has RGB lighting, Gateron Yellow switches, and a Matter-over-Wi-Fi chip on board.

Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy Jan 10

Nanoleaf brought smart lighting for the face to CES.

So, of course, I had to go try it out. This $150 LED Light Therapy Face Mask is the smart lighting company’s first lighting-focused wellness product, and it sounds like there may be more to come. I think it’s rather fetching ... don’t you?

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