The Jetsons Don’t Have Anything on Today’s in-Home Tech
The Jetsons Don’t Have Anything on Today’s in-Home Tech
https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/home-and-real-estate/2026/03/smart-home-technology-sarasota
Publish Date: 2026-03-04 15:06:00
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The Josh Micro (pictured on wall) can hear you from across the room, providing hands-free assistance with a simple voice command.
Rosie the Robot, take note. You’re being replaced—by Josh.
“A typical command from one of our clients might be, ‘Hey, Josh, turn the kitchen lights on, lower the shades in the family room and adjust the thermostat to 73,’” says Mark Bolduc, the president and founder of Sarasota’s Wicked Smart Homes.
The “Josh” in this scenario is a voice-activated system from Denver-based smart home company Josh.ai. It can light a room with pre-programmed brightness and color, close blinds over nearby windows, and cool or heat a space to the exact temperature the homeowners prefer.
Josh is just a sliver of state-of-the-art in-home systems. Today’s homeowners want to enhance entertainment, recreation, sound and music, lighting, HVAC, security, and physical and mental well-being.
Mark van den Broek, CEO of Sarasota’s SmartHouse Integration, says he’s getting requests for circadian, or “human-centric,” lighting, which many people believe improves health and wellness by mimicking the natural sunlight humans lived with for eons. “I tell people, ‘We’re going back to Cro-Magnon times,’” he says. “When the sun comes up over the horizon, the lamps start warm and then get brighter and the light moves overhead. Then, as the day goes on, they start to dim, and by nine at night, melatonin is being produced by the gallon.”
Size no longer matters with micro-LED video walls that snap together in endless configurations.
Another popular smart home technology is micro-LED video walls. Made up of individual, high-definition modules that can be snapped together in endless configurations, walls become giant, theater-like screens that allow you to view shows, movies and video games, or to watch multiple offerings, like sports games, all at once.
“You can have [the TV configuration] on your iPad or your…
