Home & smart home

A genuinely good 4K TV that doubles as art, with only a buggy SmartThings app holding it back.

Reduce glare and noticeably cut echo, improving sound quality for movie watching.

Having to buy a separate Hue Bridge is annoying but a necessary evil.

Replaced the first diffuser and has been a lot better, and looks good.

He thinks it is the greatest massage chair on the planet, with zero gravity, heating and 140 airbags.

Smells great but was too big for the space and its remote was fiddly and not smart, so it was swapped out.

The one remote needed, controlling lighting, inputs and TV mechanisms at a deeper level.

Modular, customisable sofas he calls the best movie sofa he has experienced, though hideously expensive.

Corrects all device video signals so everything looks better on the shared displays.

Apple TV box is one of the devices connected, used to play movies in the cinema.

Lets any console or PC be shown on any screen, which is essential to the room.

Two 55-inch G4 OLEDs on motorised ceiling mounts with impressive picture quality.

The most bonkers mechanism he has seen: drops a metre, swivels 360 degrees and was the hardest part of the project to install.

Bean bags that turned out about twice the size he expected and add a calm feel to the room.

Chosen over consumer brands for its much greater brightness, and it is commercial grade with 5K resolution.

Gives a worse massage than the Xiaomi but he'd still use it more as it fits in his backpack pocket.

Slick, capable smart clock with decent sound and smart home control, held back only by an LCD screen.

As good as pricier massage guns at a quarter of the price with 13 hours of battery, but bulkier than a Theragun Mini.

Competent thermos-kettle hybrid, but he doesn't see who needs it.

A $9 magnetic motion light with double the range of rivals; he would buy one for every bedroom.

Very comfy pillow, but its sleep tracking was clearly inaccurate compared with the Apple Watch.

He says the whole house runs on Control4 and describes it as the brain of the home, but he has not yet tested it in practice.

Very innovative transparent TV, but not a very useful product.

The officially licensed Poké Ball toaster smoked straight away and made bad-tasting toast.