Perhaps this is not a shocking admission, but I am terrible at the very thing this preaches; restraint.
If left entirely to my own instincts, I would have filled my home with electronics from floor to ceiling. Somewhere in the drawer right now, I've still got a tangled nest of technology that never earned its place - charges for devices I no longer own and gadgets that promised to simplify something, and then didn't.
The difference now is that my home is a compact Melbourne apartment that I share with my partner Colin (the creator of Never Too Small). Today, we're the kind of people who put googly eyes on our fridge and give the robotic vacuum a funny name, but every new piece of tech I bring through the door has to survive the raised eyebrow of someone who films the world's best designed small homes for a living.
That eyebrow, more or less, is the founding editorial policy of Tech That Fits.
My fascination with technology sparked early - I was the kid who pulled the family computer apart to see how it worked. For the past decade, that curiosity has had a day job working in Melbourne's short-stay industry, helping hotels and Airbnb hosts with their interior fit-outs and the technology that went inside them. That experience taught me to evaluate technology from someone else’s perspective, balancing ease of use and durability against the realities of a limited budget.
Living small, surrounded by daily conversations about architecture, design, and how people actually live, shaped a simple belief; every item in a home should earn its place. Technology is the category that fails this test most often, and usually most expensively. We live in a world that constantly asks us to add more - more screens, more subscriptions, more notifications, more devices - and the traditional tech press mostly cheers it all on.
This site asks a quieter question instead: what actually deserves a place in our homes, our routines, and our attention?
Sometimes the answer is the latest smart home gadget. Sometimes it's a twenty-year-old device that still works perfectly, or no technology at all. "Fit" means more than physical dimensions; it's whether a product justifies the space, money, and attention it demands - and how it leaves you feeling. Technology should take the stress out of a home, not add its own.
Somewhere along the way, I also became the designated tech guy for friends and family - the one who gets the "why does my smart TV feel so stupid?" and "which robot vacuum is least likely to eat my rug?" text messages. Plenty of what's reviewed here is chosen with those exact conversations in mind. In most categories, I find there are three honest recommendations, and they're rarely the same product: the one I'd buy for myself, the one I'd suggest to a friend, and the one I'd setup for my mum and thankfully never have to hear about again.
So that's what you'll find here. We've made a site for the curious and the uninitiated, without the stuffy pretension. You will find reviews of products I've actually lived with (tested in the apartment above, out and about with me daily, and on trips abroad with Colin); news that translates corporate announcements into what they actually mean for real homes and real budgets; and guides for getting more from the technology you already own instead of replacing it.
Tech That Fits is independent, reader-focused, and just getting started. If you think I've got something wrong, know a product that deserves a look, or simply want to tell me about the ancient gadget still earning its place in your home, I'd love to hear; mark@techthatfits.net
Thanks for being here early. Buy less, choose well, and keep only the technology that earns its place - the tech that truly fits.
Mark Alexander
