The midwit home

1. Wear biometrics to help track and improve health and fitness.

2. Buy smart home products so you don't have to get up off the couch, walk 10 feet, and flip a switch.

Does anyone else enjoy the irony? Disclosure: I am guilty of both of the above.

I don't have either, but my fat butt needs to move more, so smart home things aren't interesting to me.

Definitely enjoying that irony, although the smart home products came first for me.

Re. #2, I like the peace of mind that I haven't left lights on when I head out of town and also the security benefit of programming them to periodically turn on.

Also, if you only have a single switch to flip, then I envy you.

I put a bunch of smart light switches in my house about 5 years ago. Two of them have failed in the past year and I reverted them back to dumb switches. I'll probably do the same as they continue to fail over time. I found I rarely use the smart features to their full potential. It helps that my house is built to all the modern codes, so I have switches at convenient places and really only use the "smarts" for table lamps and outdoor lighting.