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February 28, 2005
March 1st readings
The idea of connecting the house is near to me. Growing up with my dad and his info fridge, I have always thought it will happen.(funny fact) the 2000 edition of triva pursuit has a question, "What did Negroponte say your fridge would say one day?"
Well that behind, there is a expo in Italy called SMAU. My last year working with Telecom Italia, they build a cellphone controled house. heating and lighting mainly. There was alarm switches. but still not what we are reaching today.
Looking over smarthome, I feel just like saying "why?" it seems so overkill with the type of technology used versus needed. If you look at the tour it is so much. What is also too bad is that all these tools are so obvious. there should be more hidden and less eyesore hardware.
home heartbeat is nice because you can add it to things which one already has. would like to see more data mining type returns from these devices.
the other two site, both have appliances and were less interesting.
Posted by dimitri at February 28, 2005 07:55 PM