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in the future you're smart home will connect to your smart jewelry I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update you can buy all sorts of items on Amazon but later this year you may use amazon to buy a haircut reuters is reporting that Amazon's working on launching a marketplace for local services such as plumbers or babysitters and this would start off as a small test to gauge interest similar to the limited rollout of the Amazon fresh grocery delivery service now this would challenge sites like Yelp and Angie's List it seems amazon has been carefully testing out this idea because if you ordered a nest thermostat amazon may have also tried to sell you a service to install it and speaking of the nest honeywell has a new smart home thermostat that looks a bit similar to the nest the honeywell lyric is two hundred and eighty dollars and it arrives in stores this August honeywell has a few smart thermostats already in the market but this model goes back to a classic round design from the 50s it's a design that the nest is making popular again the lyric tracks your smartphone location to know when you leave the home and when you're gone it'll switch to an energy-saving mode and switching from the smart home too smart bracelets next month it'll only cost you a dollar to be among the first to test out the razor Naboo no not Star Wars Naboo this is NAB you and it's a hybrid between a SmartWatch and a fitness band the gaming company razor is opening up beta testing on July tenth and it will award 500 fans the chance to try out this device which is an accessory for your iphone or android smartphone it vibrates and displays notification alerts of calls and text messages it tracks activity and it can give someone your contact information if you give them a high five that is if they're also wearing one you can apply to test it out on the razor Naboo website and there seems to be a new smart tracking watch thing every week but if you want something more unique perhaps you'll be interested in a smart ring it's called the ring Lee and this bling will vibrate to alert you whenever you get a text a phone call or notification if your phone is buried in your purse you probably don't hear the alerts and ring Lee can help with that paranoid you miss something feeling so you don't have to keep checking your phone it has a tiny light on the side that flashes with different colors and you can set different vibration patterns to mean different things it works with iOS and Android phones comes in different stone designs and you can pre-order it for 145 dollars techy style doesn't come cheap that's your tech news update but there's always more at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey