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Google Wifi is now officially available in Singapore through a partnership with StarHub.

Singapore is the first country in Southeast Asia to introduce Google Wifi.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 will be launching in Singapore on Friday, 15th September 2017.

Three colors will be available at launch, Midnight Black, Maple Gold and Orchid Grey.

The SmartThings V2 Hub (UK) is retailing for £99.99 (S$176) on Amazon UK.

Because I am shipping to Singapore, I get VAT exemption of 20% and hence the price before VAT is £83.33 (S$147).

uHoo is a indoor air toxin sensor that was launched in April 2017. They started shipping within the same month to their corporate customers as those are their primary target audience. For the general consumers like us, they started shipping in June 2017.

After raising a seed round from East Ventures in May 2015, in May 2016 they started an Indiegogo project to crowfund the initial preorders. It a raised a total of US$81,065 out of their initial goal of US$50,000 from 404 backers.

Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac was launched yesterday.

It brings support for MacBook Pro Touch Bar, macOS High Sierra, and upcoming Windows 10 features, such as the People Bar.

Vesternet is having a weekly Monday sale on various Z-Wave products.

I bought a couple of Fibaro Z-Wave Universal Door & Window Sensor 2 Gen5 from Vesternet for £28.67 (S$52) each.

The Tre was launched last month and is the second wireless earphones from Sudio Sweden. The first being the Vasa Bla.

It is retailing for S$179 and is available in four colors: Black, White, Pink, and Blue.

Timbuk2 is having their end of season sale of up to 50% off selected products.

I bought the Timbuk2 Showdown Laptop Backpack for US$44 (S$60).

Finally jumped onto the Google Home bandwagon.

Last year, I decided not to buy it despite it being priced at US$99 (S$136) because the ecosystem was not very mature yet. Fast forward six months later, it has improved quite a bit.