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Starting in April, IKEA will start to sell furniture with integrated Qi wireless charging points. The Scandinavian flat-pack furniture store, famous for the likes of the BILLY bookcase, plans to launch a range of home furnishing in North America and Europe, before extending the rollout worldwide.

You might expect that sofas would be a natural home for a wireless charging -- just pop your smartphone on the arm so it can power up while you watch your favorite shows -- but in fact it is tables, desk and, surprisingly, lamps which will boast the feature. It's not just phones like the Galaxy Note 3 and Nexus 5 that can take advantage of wireless power, but also tablets like the Nexus 7.

The collection is called HOMESMART, and it hides wireless charging pads into everyday objects, eliminating the spaghetti wiring that plagues all too many homes. Coffee tables, desk lamps, and even floor lamps feature Qi pads, so there's no need to fumble for the end of a cable, just pop your phone down and start juicing up.

Jeanette Skjelmose, Business Area Manager Lighting and Wireless Charging, said:

Through research and home visits, we know that people hate cable mess. They worry about not finding the charger and running out of power. Our new innovative solutions, which integrate wireless charging into home furnishings, will make life at home simpler.

So the tangle of cables could become a thing of the past, but now all of the phones in a house will be fighting for space around a lamp or on a desk.

Photo credit: IKEA

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Baby, its freezing outside. And February is far from over.

So heres some hot technology that can keep your home safe and keep you entertained while you hunker down under the blankets.

Frozen Water

A friend who posted a note about the pipes in his kitchen freezing this week reminded me of one of the dangers of protracted frigid weather: water leaks.

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The sensors need to be placed near pipes or potential trouble spots. They include disposable lithium-ion batteries that the company says should last for about 10 years. Wally also works with the Nest smart thermostat in a single app, simplifying monitoring, particularly for people with a second home or for those lucky enough to be on vacation.

While the $299 price for Wally may deter some shoppers, keep in mind that detecting one threatening temperature drop or early leak can save a home owner thousands of dollars in repairs. One caveat: if youve got a large, older home with idiosyncratic wiring, you may have difficulty making a connection to the Wally hub from distant corners of your abode.

Video Guard Dog

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Guardzilla is a noteworthy new model for its easy installation, modest price (its $100, which is half the price of the Dropcam Pro ), and the fact that it can sound an audible siren when an intruder is detected.

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Tara MacDonald and Justin Inglis got a lot of crazy looks when they decided that a stripped bare, yellow- shingled, 150-year-old house near Hubbards was their dream home.

"It would have been way easier to tear it down. People told us, just start from scratch," says Inglis about the then-derelict building on the Aspotogan Peninsula. "You had to squint your eyes very hard to see the beauty."

With broken windows, no water or electricity and a collection of animal tenants, the house was in rough shape to say the least, which made even getting a mortgage a challenge. But thanks to creativity from all angles and 13 months of hard work, the pair re-built its first home together so that it reflects both its history and their personalities.

"We wanted a wood-shingled house, we wanted it on the water, we wanted to live the Nova Scotian lifestyle," says MacDonald of how their search led them to the well-worn home.

"As soon as we stepped into that house I got good vibes. It needed to be loved. It needed to have somebody to look after it, to be able to do it a bit of justice, there's a lot of history there," adds Inglis. "It's very much part of the landscape, you see it when you come around the cove, and its ridiculously important to make it like it belongs there."

Apart from the four acres of land and killer view, the main selling point of the home was its bones. The beauty of working with a gutted house was that it was immediately obvious that the building was as solid as they come. So after pulling hundreds of square-headed nails from the walls, one by one, the pair got to the less glamourous fixes like windows, wiring and insulation.

"There's so much money," says Inglis, "you have to put in before you see anything---" "---anything fun," says MacDonald, finishing his sentence.

But eventually, once the basics were taken care of and rooms were framed out, their vision started to manifest. Apart from opening the concept of the home, the team that worked on the house kept things rustic looking, flooring the downstairs with barn board floor rescued from a house in Milford, restoring its original floors upstairs, along with the staircase---and bringing in an old railing from another house in Lunenburg to match---and re-shingling the entire house by hand. MacDonald and Inglis also enlisted the help of Sappho Griffin and Denise Coulter of henhouse for a kitchen makeover fit for the rustic reno.

"We were really lucky to find people who were up for it. One of the biggest challenges is trying to convince people of your ideas," says Inglis, who took the creative helm of the project but had hardwork and help from carpenters Ira Stevens and Hazen Emms, who were committed to helping restore the rich history of the home.

"It's amazing what you can do," says MacDonald. "You just have to stick with the vision."

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Home heating equipment is the second leading cause of U.S. home fires and home fire deaths

Published Jan 28, 2015 at 10:43 am (Updated Jan 28, 2015)

During the winter months, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) urges the public to use added caution when heating their homes. Home heating equipment is the second leading cause of U.S. home fires and home fire deaths, with January being one of the three leading months for home heating fires. In addition, improperly used or malfunctioning heating equipment can create carbon monoxide (CO), a poisonous, potentially fatal gas in the home.

Unattended heating equipment is the leading cause of home heating fires, said Lorraine Carli, NFPAs vice president of Outreach and Advocacy. She urges people to monitor all heating equipment carefully, particularly space heaters. Whether portable or stationary, space heaters account for one-third (33 percent) of home heating fires and four out of five (81 percent) of home heating fire deaths on average per year.

Also, with the potential for power outages during snow storms, Carli strongly encourages people to have flashlights and battery-powered lighting at the ready never use candles to light a home.

NFPA offers the following safety precautions to greatly reduce the risk of home heating fires and carbon monoxide poisoning:

Heating Keep anything that can burn at least three feet away from heating equipment. This includes furnaces, fireplaces, wood stoves and portable space heaters.

If there are children in your home, create a three-foot kid-free zone around space heaters and open fires.

Never use your oven to heat your home.

For fuel-burning space heaters, always use the right kind of fuel, as specified by the manufacturer.

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Winter has dealt another blow to several families who were already struggling when a frozen pipe recently burst at a transitional building in Manchester.

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The Way Home has been helping families pick up the pieces of their lives for 26 years. The Manchester nonprofit is a critical link in managing homelessness in New Hampshire, but it has been shut down for more than a week since a pipe burst.

Water flooded the ceiling, walls and floors, and all of the electrical wiring was ruined.

Phone lines have been down for days, and six families relying on the facility have been displaced. They are now staying at a hotel for what could be weeks.

"Down on my luck is an understatement," said displaced tenant Mariah Roux. "It just keeps getting worse for me at this point."

"It was very devastating seeing them try to take out what they had left," said Diane Pitts, program director for The Way Home. "They needed to be homeless to come in here, and here they are, homeless again. So it's a double whammy for them, so helping them through that process is rewarding."

A storage trailer holds the belongings that weren't ruined in the flood.

Roux said it has been a rough year for her and her 12-year-old son. They have been living at The Way Home since July as they try to start over.

"Once we're done here at the hotel, I've got to scramble and try to find a place for me and my kids to stay in the meantime," Roux said. "Hopefully, I'll be able to get a job and just go into an apartment."

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LEE COUNTY, Ia. (WGEM) - Only a shell of a house stands after firefighters spent an hour and half putting out a fire Monday that likely was sparked by space heaters.Firefighters say the renters were heating the home with four space heaters plugged into extension cords.

"Too many space heaters on stuff gets the wiring hot and it's not a real safe way to be heating your home," Denmark Fire Chief Neal Gathers said.

Gathers says his firefighters and the Weaver Fire Department were called to 1950 295th Ave., north of Fort Madison, at 3:40 a.m. Gathers said when crews arrived the two-story home was fully-engulfed on the north side of the home, with fire coming out of windows on both floors.

A mother and daughter were in the home when the fire started, and the family dog woke them up.The women made it out okay, but it was a close call and a reminder of how dangerous space heaters can be.

"It's not a good idea," Quincy electrician Steve Edgar said. "In fact most people are not aware that anything with a heating element, such as a space heater, usually take considerably more energy than what they think it does, so it's very easy to overload a circuit."

Edgar says the age of the house could have added to the problem because many older homes have outdated wiring.He advises that anyone using a space heater does not plug it into an extension cord.

"Extension cords are meant to be temporary at best, and when you have something that takes as much energy as a space heater it's not a good idea to leave them there permanently," Edgar said.

"I'd say we had the fire under control in about an hour and a half," Gathers said. "It took a little longer. The cold weather makes things a little tougher but everything went really smooth today. We didn't have any trucks freeze up, so we were lucky on that and nobody got hurt, so that was the most important thing."

Gathers said the mother and daughter went to a family member's home in West Burlington, Iowa.The house's owner says he does not plan to rebuild.

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