I love this category of product and use them extensively around my small NYC apartment. Moving fairly often and valuing privacy, it is delightful to not muck around with extra networking and internet of shit. I always wonder why the category doesn't get more love, like a nod from the wirecutter, or a big brand trying to make a slightly uscale line with a consistent deisgn language.
One thing I'd love to buy is a purely offline outlet control that can listen for a programmable wakeword -- a clapper that can do "turn on the lights." Not sure if this much computation violates the spirit, but there's no reason it can't be a tidy self-contained thing.
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