Crestron, the company that makes crazy high-end
home automation equipment that lets you turn off your lights by just breathing loudly, just announced
Windows Sideshow support. You remember
Windows Sideshow, right? The
Windows Vista feature that lets you feed Vista's Gadgets onto an external device. Crestron's including this on all Crestron touchpanels and 2-way devices that support dynamic text. Not only does it read data, you can even send control information back to Windows to change a song or turn off your BitTorrent downloads because you're about to play some Xbox Live.
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