Your old-school outlets are dumb. Smarten up your home with smart plugs

Finally, you connect the plug to your favorite home assistant, such as Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, or the smart plug’s app.

Here are just a few to get your imagination turned on to all of the possibilities:

Turn on your coffee pot while you’re still in bed.

Control your window unit air conditioner or space heater without getting out of your chair.

Turn off the oven, curling iron, or hair straightener you left on from your desk at work.

Turn on your holiday lights using a voice command.