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Handsome home hub
SENIC COVI

If Alexa is to become our AI
overlord, she might as well do it in
domestic style. So while some
may see the Echo’s towering
black cylinder as the perfect
emblem of our future dystopia,
others will prefer this chic lamp.
An aluminium base topped with
a tapered tube of sand-blasted
glass, it includes mics and a
speaker for vocal interaction and
gets on fine with Alexa – which
means it can link up to all kinds of
kit in your home. It’s open source,
so you can while away the days
until the apocalypse by setting it
up with IFTTT, Sonos, HomeKit
and more. And yes, it is still a lamp,
with four LEDs that adjust their
light cycles to your daily routine.
from €139 / senic.com

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ZOLO LIBERTY+ BLUESMART 2 OAXIS INKCASE ZEPPY
Wires on headphones are a Bluesmart’s original connected I7 PLUS Remember that panicked
right faff. If they’re not tangled, suitcase made waves with its Bolting a second screen onto moment when your phone
they’re snagging, trailing or suite of smart features – and the back of your phone might almost slipped into the tub?
snapping. Problem is, wireless now it’s back with even more sound bonkers, but this iPhone No more. Meet Zeppy, a floating
in-ears aren’t without issues. clever tech. Packed alongside 7 Plus case is no duct tape wireless speaker. Zeppy uses
The cord-free Zolo Liberty+ your pants and socks is a bevy hatchet job: it’s rocking the a flat panel membrane to propel
buds promise to change of kit, ranging from GPS and same kind of display you’d its waves through the waves,
that, with top-notch quality 3G location tracking to range- find on a Kindle. It also offers which means it can also be
(courtesy of graphene-coated based digital auto-locking. It’ll distraction-free reading, used as a massage aid – there’s
drivers), a budge-free fit and even charge your laptop to full always-on display notifications nothing as soothing as Enya for
healthy battery life. in 2.5 hours. and customisable widgets. your deep tissue.
from US$99 / zoloudio.com from $295 / bluesmart.com from $137 / oaxis.com from €89 / zeppy.com

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