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Green Tech for Your Home

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Innovative gadgets to spruce up your space

As the world embraces a shift toward sustainable design, it’s natural that our homes reflect the changing times. From near-silent ceiling fans to a self-watering countertop garden, we’ve rounded up some green tech to enhance the way you experience and live in your home.

Green Tech for your home

Ember Smart Temperature Control Mug 2

Say goodbye to lukewarm coffee. With a built-in battery and smart LED system, this future-proof mug keeps your cup of joe at a perfect drinking temperature of 50 C to 62.5 C. $200, at Indigo.

Green Tech Home Interiors

Nanoleaf Elements

The customizable panels of Nanoleaf’s latest release create a warm, natural glow in any space. This system’s compact design and handy Bluetooth feature make it easy and energy-efficient to ditch harsh overhead lighting for something more curated. $250, at Nanoleaf.

Smart Garden

Smart Garden 9

Bring the outdoors in with this compact and minimalistic home garden. From your laundry room to your kitchen counter, this small but mighty green tech device sustains the growth of your fresh herbs, veggies and flowers with its self-watering feature and controlled lighting. $259, at Best Buy.

Ceiling fan for green home

Aviator Flush Smart Ceiling Fan

Sleek and modern in its design, this near-silent ceiling fan by Modern Forms is equipped with a three-blade configuration and low-noise DC motor for a seamless integration into any environment. Control and customize the settings with the device’s RF wall control or through your smartphone using the Modern Forms app. Approx. $822, at Robinson Lighting & Bath.

RainStick, home tech

RainStick

Saving you water, energy and money, this bathroom green tech uses a Wi-Fi embedded circular system to keep your water levels as low as possible. With a partnering app, you can monitor how much water you’ve saved, plus change temperature and flow rate to your desired need. $6,600, at RainStick.

 

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Okay, but it clearly is

For the first 16 years of my life, the bat cave at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)—a reconstruction of an actual cave in Jamaica—was among my favourite places in the city. The cave was decorated with cast stalactites and wax bat models, which hung from the ceiling and threw jagged shadows on the walls. A few other features imbued it with spooky verisimilitude: the drip-drip-drip sound effects, the mirrors arranged to create the illusion of infinite depth, the strobe lights strategically placed to make the shadows flutter. When I visited as a five-year-old, the bat cave scared me. When I visited as a stoned fifteen-year-old, it scared me even more. Then came the renovation.

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