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Go beyond the ‘big three’ and you’ll discover a whole host of smart tech players ready to meet your needs at any price point

Our favourite lamp? Luxo Jr the Pixar mascot, obviously. But as far as non-anthropomorphic ones go, the Lightcycle Morph takes some beating. It can track natural daylight to adjust its brightness and colour temperature accordingly. As well as using less power, this reduces the amount of blue light you’re exposed to, so you wake up and wind down more gradually.

Or do you just want to stay focused for longer? There’s a study mode that intensifies the blue light in order to get your brain buzzing. Alternatively, relax mode emits an orange glow to keep the chill vibes going all day; this also works nicely for a touch of movie-night ambience.

As well as letting you redirect its radiance, the lamp’s arm can rotate 360°. So you can use it for everything from aiding your make-up application to dramatically spotlighting a bit of artwork.

The Morph is just the latest in a line of products that can all be controlled by the Dyson Link app. This also includes the 360 Heurist robo-vac plus a range of air purifiers and humidifiers. The app lets you schedule when they come on and – rather unusually – monitor their performance with detailed charts. While these make it easy to spot faults fast, we can’t help but think this feature was made with engineer James Dyson in mind and not really anyone else.

Adopting the Apple approach to smart home tech, Dyson’s devices don’t mix well with others and only connect over Bluetooth rather than Wi-fi. But you can still voice-command them with Alexa and automate them with Siri Shortcuts.