Nodez wants to be your smart-home-in-a-box

If today’s smart home gadgets are a team of Cristiano Ronaldos all playing for solo glory, then Nodez (from $196) is Leicester City hoping to score an unlikely victory. A gang of affordable, Alexa-compatible sensors that are all managed by a bespectacled Italian (okay, a smartphone app), they can sense motion, humidity, temperature, moisture and smoke, as well as smarten up your existing tech with a range of plugs and buttons. Okay, they don’t do anything radically different to British Gas Hive or HomeKit, but Nodez does go much easier on your wallet. And maybe it’s time for the smart home to have its own budget underdog with a fairytale ending story.

Mark Wilson Features editor

About

Mark's first review for Stuff was the Nokia N-Gage in 2004. Luckily, his career lasted a little longer than the taco phone, and he's been trying to figure out how gadgets fit back into their boxes ever since. While his 'Extreme Mark Wilson' persona was retired following a Microsoft skydiving incident, this means he can often be spotted in the wilds of South West London testing action cams, drones and smartwatches, and occasionally cursing at them.

Areas of expertise

Smart home tech, cameras, wearables and obscure gadgets from the early 2000s.