T3 Awards 2017 together with Three: all the shortlists for each of this year's awards

The cream of the year's tech crop, arranged into a series of easy-to-digest lists

The Home Awards

Smart Home Product of the Year

Bosch Smart Home and Home Connect
 IKEA smart lighting
 Hive Home (Starter Pack)
 Google Home
 Amazon Echo
 Netgear Arlo Pro

Best connected lighting

Philips Hue
 IKEA smart lighting
 Osram Lightify
 Elgato Avea
 LIFX
 Hive

Best connected security in association with Encrypt.Me

Netgear Arlo Pro
 Y-Cam Protect
 Nest Cam IQ
 Yale Conexis L1
 Blink Home Security Camera System
 Ring Pro

Best connected eco/energy product

Belkin WeMo Home
 TP-Link Wi-Fi Smart Plug with energy monitoring
 Tado Smart Thermostat
 Nest Smart Thermostat
 Hive Active heating 
 Eve By Elgato Thermo

Best baby and toddler tech in Association with T3Baby

Amazon Fire Tablet kids edition
 Bugaboo Bee5
 Babble Band Audio Digital Monitor
 BT Baby Monitor 450 Lightshow
 Philips AVENT uGrow monitor
 Baby Jogger City Select Stroller

Best kitchen and home tech

De’Longhi Dedica espresso maker and grinder
 Philips Sonicare Flexcare connected toothbrush
 Braun Series 9 Titanium
 Sage by Heston Blumenthal Bakery Boss
 KitchenAid Artisan Power Blender Plus
 AEG ComfortLift dishwasher

Best home networking tech

Netgear Orbi
 Google Wi-Fi
 Linksys AC1900 Cable Modem Router
 Devolo Dlan Duo 1200+
 BT Whole Home Wifi
 D-Link  AC1900 EXO router

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Duncan Bell

Duncan is the former lifestyle editor of T3 and has been writing about tech for almost 15 years. He has covered everything from smartphones to headphones, TV to AC and air fryers to the movies of James Bond and obscure anime. His current brief is everything to do with the home and kitchen, which is good because he is an excellent cook, if he says so himself. He also covers cycling and ebikes – like over-using italics, this is another passion of his. In his long and varied lifestyle-tech career he is one of the few people to have been a fitness editor despite being unfit and a cars editor for not one but two websites, despite being unable to drive. He also has about 400 vacuum cleaners, and is possibly the UK's leading expert on cordless vacuum cleaners, despite being decidedly messy. A cricket fan for over 30 years, he also recently become T3's cricket editor, writing about how to stream obscure T20 tournaments, and turning out some typically no-nonsense opinions on the world's top teams and players.

Before T3, Duncan was a music and film reviewer, worked for a magazine about gambling that employed a surprisingly large number of convicted criminals, and then a magazine called Bizarre that was essentially like a cross between Reddit and DeviantArt, before the invention of the internet. There was also a lengthy period where he essentially wrote all of T3 magazine every month for about 3 years. 

A broadcaster, raconteur and public speaker, Duncan used to be on telly loads, but an unfortunate incident put a stop to that, so he now largely contents himself with telling people, "I used to be on the TV, you know."