Hilary Duff wants your home to smell better
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Give your smart home a fresh and clean upgrade with these gadgets!
I’ve been testing several items that can make life simple and smell fresher!
I’m hesitant to recommend air purifiers. There are so many of them on the market and how do you know if they’re making a difference?
But with Mila, the proof is in the details.
Mila is a smart air purifier that has a personality, too.
I love how easy it is to set up and they have a variety of filters for everything from new parents to people with pets.
Once Mila is set up, it goes into Automagic mode. This means it takes care of your air without a lot of fuss. It will adjust modes to get you the cleanest air for the environment, both inside and out.
Also, I didn’t realize an air purifier can be fun. The on-board touch screen shows status updates on your air quality and performance, but it does it in a fun, playful way.
You can also see highly detailed stats in the app. You might even get a notification message from Mila that sounds like a concerned home maintenance supervisor, like “Rich, I’m concerned about potential mold growth in your living room.”
The main thing to know is that most of the time, Mila is pretty quiet, but it can get really loud when the fans rev up while you’re cooking.
Air filters last about 6 months and start around $60.
Amazon’s Echo Hub is a new way to control your entire smart home.
It’s sort of like a mix between a tablet and an Echo Show, but its primary function is to control all of your smart home devices.
Unlike an Echo that you put on your counter, the Hub is mostly meant to be mounted on a wall.
This is the smart home control panel I dreamed about as a kid and something that would have cost gobs of money in the 80’s or 90’s.
The device still has Alexa Voice control and a touch screen you can customize with various widgets for fast access to your smart home devices, camera feeds, routines and more.
It’s a bit confusing since an Echo Show can pretty much do the same thing, but this is more of a dedicated digital controller, whereas the Echo Show is more of an all-in-one entertainment and control device.
The Echo Hub has control for various popular protocols including Zigbee, Sidewalk, Thread, Bluetooth and Matter, so it shouldn’t have any issue working with a wide range of devices.
I was happy with the on-screen responsiveness and it can even show photos when it’s not doing anything else.
Keep in mind there are proximity sensors on the device so it knows when you get close but there is no camera.
Below 60° $30 for a starter kit with subscription
Nothing’s worse than a home that doesn’t smell nice.
Below 60°solves that in seconds.
It’s a plug-in diffuser that uses 100 percent natural scents.
Hillary Duff helps guide the brand, which comes from the same minds behind LegalZoom, Honest and ShoeDazzle.
Just pop in a scent capsule and choose low or high strength.
They have fun names like “if citrus were a feeling,” “mint disco on ice” and “vanilla buys a timeshare in paradise.”
They smell clean and fresh and last about 30 days. The plug-in diffuser looks like something Apple might make and can be plugged in vertically or horizontally.
Like a lot of these direct-to-consumer brands, you get the best deal when you subscribe.
A starter kit runs $30 dollars when you subscribe, and additional scents are $10 dollars.
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