Press Flic’s luminous smart button for emergency night-time geekery

Smart buttons don’t seem so smart when you’re fumbling around for them in the night. Then they’re just accomplices to knocking over your glass of bedside water, or luring you into a bathroom door headbutt. But not if you’ve bought the luminous Flic Glow ($99 for four). A glow-in-the dark version of Flic’s standard button, it lets you do everything from controlling your Philips Hue lights or Sonos speaker, to triggering more complex scenes via IFTTT. Right now, the buttons work via your phone’s Bluetooth, but from October 2017 they’ll be getting a dedicated hub to make sure they’re always in range and ready to lazily order you pizza.

Mark Wilson Features editor

About

Mark's first review for Stuff was the Nokia N-Gage in 2004. Luckily, his career lasted a little longer than the taco phone, and he's been trying to figure out how gadgets fit back into their boxes ever since. While his 'Extreme Mark Wilson' persona was retired following a Microsoft skydiving incident, this means he can often be spotted in the wilds of South West London testing action cams, drones and smartwatches, and occasionally cursing at them.

Areas of expertise

Smart home tech, cameras, wearables and obscure gadgets from the early 2000s.