[ljm]

Or the bed malfunctions while you're asleep and you get pinned against the ceiling. Or your secret office space behind your TV closes in on you because someone in a meeting shouts "hey Ori, close my office!"

Unless they took care to secure their IoT Heavy Furniture.

It all looks very fancy but this is one aspect of life where I appreciate low- or no-technology.

[Freak_NL]

You can control them via a smartphone, so assume that it will in time be as leaky as a colander. Some domain registration will elapse, some cracker will find an exploit, some security flaw left in because of usability taking preference, something like that.

The support for whatever cloud offering is backing these (and there will be, there always is, despite there being no need for it) will likely lapse before the furniture itself is used up. Does anyone believe you can install one of these and have it work for twenty years?

These things should not be connected to the internet.