Over the past few years, there has been a surge of home automation products to make our lives easier, more efficient and, in many cases, even more reliant on our smartphones.
With the kitchen being a central hub of activity, it’s no surprise that a lot of these advances in home tech revolve around the things we enjoy most -- cooking, eating, and spending time with family and friends.
In the gallery above, we've rounded up 10 neat kitchen gadgets that we can expect will become the norm in the decked-out -- that is, "teched-out" -- homes of the near future.