A borderline philosophical question: when it comes to televisions, how big is too big? We’ve seen screen resolutions increase to 4K and then 8K, but these can only be fully appreciated by the human eye if you’re either sitting stupidly close to the television, or the television itself is gigantic. So a procession of massive TVs have inevitably lumbered onto the market (LG unveiled a 325in monster not so long ago) that pose two pressing questions: a) where to put them, and b) whether you want your domestic life dominated by an enormous black rectangle in scenes faintly reminiscent of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
C Seed N1 television, from €180,000
The N1 unfolds into a 103in, 137in or 165in television
Austrian firm C Seed anticipated this many years ago, and solved the conundrum by embedding the television in the floor. At the press of a button, a black column would rise up and unfold into a stunning MicroLED display. Then, when you’d had your fill of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, it would neatly fold away again. The initial concept was the result of a collaboration between C Seed and Porsche, and it won a coveted Red Dot Design Award. The main drawback with original models was the amount of structural work required to install them in your living room, or indeed your superyacht.