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Illustrations and animations created for a series of sponsored posts for Kohler focused on Smart Tech.

What Smart Home Technology Do You Wish Existed?

This year’s CES boasts a wide array of breakthroughs in consumer and business technology, but no market is capturing attention on the show floor quite like the Smart Home innovations on display. From smart locks and surveillance cameras that keep your home safe to bathroom breakthroughs there’s a new piece of must-have home tech popping up every week.

Nature Has Elevated Basically Every Form of Design

For innovators of every variety, nature is worth looking to for inspiration. All living organisms have evolved over millennia to best survive their environments. In doing so, they’ve perfected elements and processes that can be applied to myriad human concerns — from leading us to engineering and medical solutions, like needles that pierce skin as painlessly as mosquito bites, to simply helping us make our creations more efficient and beautiful, like Kohler’s elegant rain-simulating shower panels. Here are some of the ways nature has high-key influenced human design.

Stock Up On These Connected Tech Recs For All Of Your Personalities

Throughout history, humans have been particularly adept at creating and refining tools to best suit our needs. The tools we need today correspond to life in an increasingly connected culture: We’re embracing smarter and smarter tech to mitigate the inconveniences of daily life. Whether you’re new to automation or already luxuriating in a smart home, here are the gadgets you could stand to add to your space, based on your lifestyle of choice.