The Icepick is described as a wired house with prying eyes, ears and sensors everywhere – there’s barcodes on the bin, temperature sensors on the toilet, a doorbell cam, front-door cam and ….wait for it….a microwave cam.

Microwave cam - what a curiously pointless waste of time. After all, does anyone out there really give a set of rusty nuts whether it's toad in the hole or beans on toast being consumed in the icepick house.

What next, will icepick fans find themselves glued to images spewed out by the paint dry cam, the pitch dark cam, the u bend cam or the inevitable cam cam : a device whose sole purpose would be to watch another camera as it records insignificant events.