Matter
2 stories filed under Matter on Spoot: Spotted Early. The newest of them: “Apple's HomeView Finally Gives Your Smart Bulbs a Room With a View” and “Two Anker 45W chargers for under fifty bucks sounds like a dare”. Apple finally put a screen on its smart home hub, and it looks like the iMac G4's younger, wall-mountable cousin. Two Anker 45W chargers for under fifty bucks sounds like a dare. Spoot: Spotted Early New things, caught while they're still new and a little weird. Spoot finds fresh gadgets, clever inventions, crowdfunding campaigns,… The list below is every Matter story on Spoot: Spotted Early, newest first.
Apple's HomeView Finally Gives Your Smart Bulbs a Room With a View
Apple finally put a screen on its smart home hub, and it looks like the iMac G4's younger, wall-mountable cousin. The HomeView comes in two flavors: a tabletop model with a screen perched on a speaker base, and a flat, mountable panel for when you want your home controls to disappear into the wall. It handles Matter and Thread, so your smart bulbs and locks can finally talk to each other without a translator. That polish is pure Apple, but the real question is whether this arrives as a finished product or another concept that keeps slipping. It's a smart display, sure, but it's also a communication console and an entertainment screen. If you want to dig into why it feels like a nostalgic chimera, our piece on that angle is worth circling back to.
Two Anker 45W chargers for under fifty bucks sounds like a dare
Two Anker 45W chargers for under fifty bucks sounds like a dare. Anker's latest single-port USB-C charger packs 45W, foldable prongs, and a front-facing smart display that shows charge level and power flow at a glance. Normally $39.99, it's down to $23.99 during Amazon's October sale, which means you can grab two for less than what one usually costs. That's the kind of math I can get behind. The deal runs until 3 AM ET on October 8th, 2026, so this window is narrow and fast. If you've been circling back on a compact travel charger that actually tells you what it's doing, this is the razor clam. Also worth a look: our roundup of Prime Day's cheap seat, six things under $25 that don't suck. Stay spooty.