Smart Home

February 6, 2024

When wabi-sabi meets high-tech

In this 100-square-metre flat in Singapore, integrating smart appliances with minimalist design was the ultimate goal.

July 13, 2023

An electric vehicle that’s redefining sustainable luxury through design

From the end-of-life process to blockchain tracking on high-risk materials, Polestar is an EV brand using design thinking to create the most sustainable end product possible. Habitus editor Aleesha Callahan gets behind the wheel of a Polestar 2 to see its design credentials up close.

November 23, 2020

The Jasper Bed – Sleek Grandeur Meets Smart Design

Much beloved and already iconic, the Jasper Sofa has a new cousin in the Jasper Bed – a thoughtful combination of authentic Australian design and unique sleek grandeur.

April 2, 2020

A Speaker Designed For Your Sixth Sense

Designed in collaboration with British industrial designer, Benjamin Hubert, the Beosound Balance by Bang & Olufsen is design poetry, in the form of a smart speaker.

March 19, 2020

Style, Smarts And Specs Combine In The Samsung Serif TV

Equal measures stylish and smart, the Samsung Serif TV puts an end to the compromise between technology, entertainment and design in the home.

October 3, 2019

Sonos Move: Good To Go, Wherever You Go

Just in time for the summer months ahead, Sonos has geared up to take its first step out of the home with Sonos Move, a durable, battery-powered smart speaker that provides great sound indoors, outdoors, and on the go.

August 4, 2015

How smart will we have to make the smart home?

The home of the future has been a sci fi cliché for years. How much equity should we give the connected home for improving our lives, when design can preserve the things we love about home, and provide answers to our 21st-century problems?

June 23, 2015

The smart home boom

BOOM is a new, master-planned community that redefines the notions of the smart home.

June 23, 2015

What is a Smart Home?

It sounds great, 'Smart Home', but what does it really mean? How can our homes be smarter? How can we live more consciously? Sven Ehmann, creative director at Gestalten in Berlin, gives us his opinion. He suggests we begin by looking at each word individually: 'smart' and 'home'.