In the push to get every home to be ‘smart,’ something is being lost along the way. The more devices we own, the greater the need to maintain them, charge them up and constantly check them. We can easily end up in a situation where our device owns us rather than we own our devices. In the push to get every home to be ‘smart,’ something is being lost along the way. The more devices we own, the greater the need to maintain them, charge them up and constantly check them. We can easily end up in a situation where our device owns us rather than we own our devices.