ABSTRACT Drawing on feminist technology studies’ interventions in current research on smart homes, this article offers an analysis of recent cultural artifacts that – in contrast to the predominant marketized narratives infused with androcentricity and biased toward a reaffirmation of stereotypical gender roles – dislocate the conventional power relations within the technologized domestic space. The article elaborates an original concept of a ‘wicked vestal’, which may serve as a heuristic tool to capture the revisionist dynamics operating within (and partly enabled by) the technology-imbued home. The article argues, that creative subversions of the mainstream discourse on smartification offered by literary/artistic/cinematic products may add nuance to the existent discussions on smart technologies, offering a glimpse into the processes of a (dis)harmonious integration of technology and domesticity, alerting consumers of smart devices to, and possibly readying them for, the precariousness lurking in an unpredictable, capitalism-ridden techno-future.