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I think I came across Automate Asia in the local news. So when I needed to make my house “smarter”, I decided to engage their services.

Note that this is not a sponsored post, I paid for their services. Just wanted to do a shout out to Mike and the team at Automate Asia for the awesome service with the answers to my noob questions.

Thanks to Sudio, I will be giving out one Sudio Vasa Bla worth S$165 to one lucky winner. He/she will be getting his/her preferred color of the Sudio Vasa Bla.

Do checkout my Sudio Vasa Bla Review at lesterchan.net/blog/2016/06/03/sudio-vasa-bla/ if you are interested in knowing more about Sudio Vasa Bla.

Samsung Pay will be available for use in Singapore from next Thursday, 16th June 2016 on Samsung Galaxy Note 5 4G+, S6 edge+ 4G+, S7 4G+ and S7 edge 4G+.

Singapore is the 5th country after Spain, China, US and South Korea to have Samsung Pay.

*UPDATE* An updated version of Igloohome Smart Lock is now available, check out my review of Igloohome Smart Deadbolt Lock 02 .

Igloohome is a smart-home startup that is based in Singapore. They raised a total of US$1.25 million in seed funding which is led by Wavemaker Partners with participation from Singtel Innov8, and DreamIt Ventures.

Sudio is a brand of earphones that not many people have heard of. It is a Swedish company that is based in the Stockholm, Sweden. They have four series of earphones: TVÅ, KLANG, VASA, VASA BLÅ.

TVÅ is their lower-end range and the remote comes with only one button remote without microphone. It is retailing for S$65.

I backed the MOGICS Power Donut/Bagel project on Kickstarter on 14th February 2016. The project was funded on 29th February 2016 after raising a total of US$437,738 out of their initial goal of US$15,000 from 9,882 backers.

Both the Power Donut and Power Bagel are travel power strips which is shaped like a circle for space saving.

On 29th March 2016, SmartThings was having a 20% discount off most of their products as part of their Spring sale.

They are having the sale once again till 4th June 2016 as part of Memorial Day remembrance.

Leagoo is a brand that not many have heard of (including me). But you might have guessed it. Leagoo is a Chinese smartphone brand and it’s parent company is Shenzhen OTEDA Technology Co. Ltd.

It has launched it’s first phone in Singapore called the Leagoo Shark 1 and is retailing for S$399. You can get it at various mobile retailers. It is not yet available at telcos in Singapore yet.

Slightly more than a month after Apple Pay for AMEX launches in Singapore, Apple Pay for VISA and MasterCard holders are finally available in Singapore.

Unfortunately, not all banks are on the list. For the initial roll out only credit cards from these five banks are supported: POSB, DBS Bank, OCBC Bank, United Overseas Bank (UOB) and Standard Chartered Bank (SCB).