LG ThinQ WK7 review: Smart speaker, good listener to liven up your home

The LG WK7 is an aspirational smart-speaker with few rivals

Artificial intelligence is revolutionary. Even though governments around the world have started budgeting for AI, homes are not getting smarter at a revolutionary pace. This is partly because the R&D cost of making home appliances smarter is still very high. The rest of the blame is on the tech giants for their snobbery against interoperability. So Siri only talks to Apple products, Google is strictly “Home” and Alexa is mediating Amazon partnerships with other brands.

LG seems to have struck a deal with Google and its voice-assistant has found its way into the South Korean company’s latest speakers. LG recently