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Meet Twist, the AirPlay light-bulb speaker designed for apartment renters

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The connected home sounds like a pie-in-the-sky concept to apartment renters who can’t exactly invest in expensive hardware and rewire a place just to pack up and move after a year or two. But there are little ways to bring home automation into your temporary dwelling without huge costs up-front. Take Twist (http://www.hellotwist.com), a new LED light bulb that turns your lamp into a Jambox-style speaker using just AirPlay.</p><p>
Twist is one of the simplest home automation products I’ve ever seen demoed. There’s no installation. There’s no hub.</p><p>
“There’s literally no set-up,” said Shaun Springer, CEO of New York-based Astro, the home automation start-up behind Twist. “You don’t even have to put in a password.”</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2940132/meet-twist-the-airplay-light-bulb-speaker-designed-for-apartment-renters.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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