HACKER Q&A
📣 sawanruparel

Does smart furniture have a market


furniture with power ports or lights or wheels? does it have a market, is it going to go mainstream?


  👤 uberman Accepted Answer ✓
A place to sit that happened to have wireless charging, maybe but I'm not sure I would place a premium on it when purchasing and I would never purchase an IoT or connected piece of furnature. I certainly would never buy a 6 legged walking table or a moving wall that collapsed by office into my bedroom. It seems to me only the most expensive housing markets could justify the expense of a robot wall and bed.

👤 solardev
Sounds like a good way to buy furniture that would only last a few years. All the fancy couches and lamps and such with low-powered USB ports became obsolete with USB-C, and the wireless Qi ones weren't powerful enough for newer devices. I'd hate to have something as simple as a piece of wood be tied to the electronics obsolescence cycles.