<![CDATA[Gizmodo: electronic house]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: electronic house]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/electronichouse http://gizmodo.com/tag/electronichouse <![CDATA[Electronic House's Home of the Year Makes Me Want to Die]]> Ever wake up in a fitful cold sweat with the cutting realization that there're certain areas in your home where you can't watch TV!!??. Then Electronic House's Home of the Year is for you.

Everything associated with this is so deeply stupid I want to cry. From this:

Our Home of the Year sits among the Hollywood Hills, where the stars shine as brightly inside the homes as they do in the night sky.



...to the two flatscreen TVs in the bedroom facing the same direction...



...to the giant plasma screen in the bathroom so the soaking rich fucks within can watch TV instead of looking at the amazing view of the aforementioned gilt Hollywood Hills. It is all controlled by a Crestron automation system, which in turn is controlled by Satan.

But hey, look, one of those three-screened racing simulator things:


And is it a surprise that custom-installer geeks have horrible taste in actual homes? I guess some people like living in a rendered Sharper Image catalog.

But as Silvio Dante once said: "Disgusting" [Electronic House]

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<![CDATA[Monster Theater Video Tour: One Sci-Fi Nerd's $100,000 Nightmarish Fantasy]]>
Who doesn't want their home theater to look like a "spaceship transporting dangerous aliens"? I for one wouldn't mind owning an animatronic alien that pops out of nowhere. "When steam starts blasting from ceiling vents and the alien lurches through the wall, you hear friends scream expletives like 'holy (expletive)'—and then request to borrow a clean pair of underwear," says Dr. David Winn, a self-styled "devout Christian who just happens to enjoy the macabre." In Winn's little sanctum, Locutus of Borg roams free while the most dangerous creatures of them all (no, not MAN—Predator and Creature from the Black Lagoon) are contained safely behind bars. And why yes, that is a "museum-grade" Robbie the Robot. EH has the full story plus photos. [Electronic House]

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