Smart Home Diary: Planning to move home has given me a couple of new perspectives<div class="feat-image">
</div><p>When you spend your life writing about technology, and have a lot of techy friends, you can fairly easily find yourself living inside a hi-tech bubble. Things like smart home technology can start to feel relatively mainstream, especially when companies like <a href="
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<p>Prices have started to fall, with several commenters on a recent piece noting that even the market leading Philips Hue system has bulbs from $15, often discounted below that level.</p>
<p>We’re starting to see <a href="
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<p>But planning to move home has shown me just how far it all is from mainstream as far as the world at large is concerned …</p>
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Smart Home Diary: Planning to move home has given me a couple of new perspectives
