For most of the past two decades, technology in the home meant committing to a wall. The screen went up, the speakers went in, and the room arranged itself around them. Two of LG‘s current pieces suggest that idea has run its course: both are designed furniture-first, to move with a room rather than dictate its shape. The LG Massage Recliner is the more quietly radical of the two. Massage chairs have historically been bulky and difficult to place. This one won a Red Dot Design Award for looking like a well-designed chair. Underneath the restraint sits a 3D massage system with six motions — Rolling, Kneading, Tapping, Acupressure, Tapping & Kneading, and Acupressure & Tapping — across seven lifestyle programs: Full Body, Upper Back, Lower Back, Work Fatigue, Therapeutic, Vitality and Swedish Massage.
The rest is detail well judged. Lower-back heat therapy to ease muscle tension, 135 degrees of recline, and discreet built-in speakers. The Convertible 2-in-1 Ottoman™ doubles as a storage table, another well-thought-out idea you wouldn’t necessarily think of yourself.
The LG StanbyME 2 Max takes the same instinct further. LG’s largest portable screen to date and a CES 2026 Innovation Award winner, it is a 32-inch 4K touchscreen that detaches from its wheeled stand and runs up to four and a half hours cordless. The Alpha 8 AI Processor Gen3 handles picture, with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos through side-firing speakers, while webOS supplies streaming, over a hundred LG Channels and Gallery+ art. Mood Maker turns it into a clock, a turntable or a photo frame.
Built with versatility in mind, both belong in a cottage as readily as a media room — which is roughly the point. At Range Rover House Muskoka this August, in a house designed to keep the lake in view, the most useful technology is the kind that knows how to integrate.
