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In what is also an obvious promotion for reviews site Reviews.org, the company has cleverly come up with a digital detox challenge for one person in the US, and another in Australia, offering USD or AUD $2400 to each successful applicant to do just that.

Sonos is well known for its ecosystem of connected speakers that let you create an amazing audio experience in your home, but now you can take that experience anywhere you want with the impressive looking new Sonos Roam.

Bring out the ale, because anyone whose name starts with ALE can be in the running to win one of 100 smart-home tech products from Alexa by visiting its dedicated Facebook page.

You can talk to your smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs, smart speakers, smart displays, home systems and more, and one of the world's favourite ways to speak to your devices is Amazon's Alexa, with Amazon sharing how we're using Alexa devices. 

Google's new Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 5G smartphones have launched with unique features, as usual, and with a radically redesigned new Nest Audio speaker and Chromecast with Google TV, Google has thrown down the gauntlet and is expecting its best sales ever!

Just in time for the end of year holiday shopping season comes some great new upgrades to Amazon's line of voice controlled intelligent assistants, along with an all-new Echo Show 10 promising "a complete reimagination of Alexa with a screen", upgraded in "every way" and can even rotate silently to stay in view - and more!

Smart speakers are fantastic devices, where you speak to get news, radio, answers, check appointments, hear music, check the weather, news, traffic, control smart home appliances and much more, and a battery makes that portability potent.

If you've ever wanted to tell your Google Home speaker to GET LOFT, it'll need a battery pack to do so, so JOT down the details within to do the same with your Google Home Mini!

Can you hear that? Amazon Echo devices have been updated for 2018, with new designs, upgraded speakers and more to challenge competitors for smart speaker and smart home supremacy. 

It has taken several months to arrive Down Under after launching in the US in October 2017, but the biggest and loudest version of Google's Home speakers is finally set to go to Max down under for A$549.

AirPlay 2 on Sonos means you can do a stack of Apple-related stuff on your Sonos speakers, adding to its flexibility and giving Sonos additional ammo against Apple's own HomePod.

Apple's HomePod delays are finally over, with its "breakthrough wireless speaker" bringing "advanced audio technologies into any home for an incredible music listening experience" arriving on 9 February.

Just missing out on the Christmas sales season in Australia, Amazon's Echo and Alexa are finally arriving down under early next year, with dev access too.