You can now buy lamps with speakers you can control remotely: https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/symfonisk-table-lamp-with-wifi-speaker-black-50357592/
I imagine we'll see home devices integrating smart speakers rather than separate devices eventually.
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I've bought an NVMe disk and USB-powered speakers this week. Both had fewer components than the parts they replaced.
I don't think we're held back by hardware: it's usually insufficient imagination.
Devices like smart lights (Hue) or smart speakers (Alexa) didn't use new hardware, and could have been invented a little earlier.
A brilliant example of Twitter's character count methodology being rather unbalanced! (So many sites *advantage* English speakers.)