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Too Cheap to Buy Smart Appliances? This $26 Gadget Is the Workaround

Would you welcome SwitchBot into your home? Do you even know what SwitchBot is?

By Matt Jancer | Reviewed by Ysolt Usigan

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It looks like something that’d be a project for a middle school robotics class, but there’s an undeniable ingenuity to the SwitchBot Button Pusher, down to $26 (from its $29 retail price) for Mother’s Day.

It’s a squarish block about 1.5 by 1.5 inches, and on one side a little rectangular chunk of plastic pivots out of the cube until it’s reaching out 90 degrees. Use it for light switches, fan switches, coffee makers, and whatever other dumb, non-smart-home-connected device you wish you could command with your voice, operate........

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