Jennifer Sheahan: How invisible tech works its magic without cluttering up our homes

I am not a minimalist in the interior design sense, but I am definitely a minimalist when it comes to tech. I recently put a beautiful Le Feu fireplace in the corner of my living room, and I’m obsessed with it, but the wires plugged in behind it from my WiFi router are driving me nuts. There are clever ways to hide wires, of course — plants and panelling and baskets and what have you — but I’m dreaming of a future with no wires at all. I want tech to seamlessly integrate into my home, hidden, invisible, working like magic without cluttering up my space. That future is, hopefully, not too distant, and there have been some really great innovations recently that are pushing us towards that reality.

The vanishing hob

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