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home automation

Crestron Home Automation Adds Windows Sideshow Support

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. More »

6:10 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Jason Chen
2,334 views, 7 comments

Latest by Stride: Specialists in custom install of home automation installation and smart home systems. Custom audio installation including smart home automation and whole house lighting control systems and mood lighting. The very best smart home automation systems.Home Automation more »

gadgets

Runtriz Touchscreen Communication Displays Networks Up Your Luxury Home's Kitchen

This Runtriz touchscreen is something we'd want in the kitchen area of our home. Not because it's totally necessary, because it isn't, but because it display stocks, weather, news, recipes, wine organization, and even send emails and text messages to people on the outside. Why would we use this? One example is to make up a grocery list on the device (assisted by the recipes so we know exactly what to buy) and then emailing it to our phones so we can see it at the store. Or better yet, email it to the person who's actually at the supermarket so they know what to buy. That seems more likely. [Runtriz]

3:30 PM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Jason Chen
2,952 views, 10 comments

Latest by soldstatic: oh my lord.... 5k???? we use a nokia 770 that cost no more than a 400 when it first came out for the same purpose. Some open source developer could come up with an integrating kind of system to put more »

home automation

Skloib's White Box Cube Is Secret Living-Room Transformer

This is what my future home will look like: clean, simple, white— like a doctor's office, you might think. But when I turn a nondescript "white box cube," all sorts of crap starts happening: what you thought was my painting is now my TV, a planter starts emitting colored mood-light, music spews from a mural on the wall and screens embedded in the cabinets spring to life. What Austrian furniture designer Skloib has invented is, essentially, the Austin Powers bachelor pad of 2015, and I want it to be a reality. Soon, please. [Trendir]

9:47 AM on Thu Jan 31 2008
By Kit Eaton
4,763 views, 17 comments

Latest by skulldriveshaft: you can definitely buy most of those items in white with color changing remotes from [www.eq3.com] more »

bathtub fun

Bath-O-Matic Fills Your Tub for $8000

Fine, it's a little more complex than that. The Bath-O-Matic from Unique Automation is an automated bathtub filler that draws a bath just the way you like it. Through a touch screen interface, bathers can choose the temperature and height of the water, as well as any combination of oils, bubbles and fragrances.
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6:00 PM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Benny Goldman
4,487 views, 24 comments

home entertainment

Life|point HD Touch Panel is a Friggin' Beast

The Life|point HD touch panel takes home automation to the next level by allowing users to watch high-definition video, pause live TV or even check out four television streams at the same time—all from one device. The system also features an iPhone-esque point-and-slide navigation feature that can be used to control instant news, traffic and weather as well as the lighting, security and temperature control in your home. More »

8:20 PM on Fri Dec 21 2007
By Sean Fallon
3,597 views, 4 comments

see me, feel me

HomeSeer HSM100 Multi-Sensor Detects Motion, Light and Temp

Z-Wave home automation tech continues to expand, and now HomeSeer adds to the mix with its HSM100 Multi-Sensor that knows when the lights are on, what the temperature is, and whether anything is moving in the room. Then, it can control four other Z-Wave devices over a 30-foot range with any combination of that data. For instance, if the temperature is above 80°, it's dark and the device senses someone in the room, it can turn on the lights and lower the temperature automagically. If it's connected to Z-Wave light and thermostat controls, that is. More »

11:27 AM on Tue Jul 3 2007
By Charlie White
1,970 views, 1 comment

Latest by vidmeister: So it senses a dark warm room with movement (as in me and the Mrs. gettin' jiggy) and... turns on the lights and AC? No frakkin' thanks. more »

home automation

Control4 HC-300 Home Controller Has an Iron HD Grip on Your Stuff

Video-philes with a control streak can invest in this HC-300 Home Controller to do all their turnings on and off in glorious high definition. Not only does the $699 HC-300 support 720p, there's a brushed aluminum chassis, Zigbee wireless technology, IR ports, Relays and tons of outputs in the back as well. More »

4:30 PM on Tue Jun 12 2007
By Jason Chen
2,212 views, 1 comment

almost fantastic

Domia X10 Fake Touchscreen Lighting Control

At first glance this $399 Domia X10 touchscreen control is fantastic. You get a real-picture representation of your room so you can easily select which lights you want to turn on and off. However, the Domia is actually just a fancy picture frame that you stick an actual picture of your room into before configuring the unit with buttons to turn each item on and off. More »

5:00 PM on Fri May 11 2007
By Jason Chen
2,065 views, 10 comments

gadgets

Siemen's serve@Home - Automation and Management for the House of the Future

As a young child in the late 70's/early 80's I was led to believe that by the time I was all grown up my house would be like "The Jetsons"—completely automated and super cool. I wouldn't have to cook, clean, or dress myself; the super-smart centralized computer in my home would take care of all these pesky tasks for me. Fast forward 25 years and I'm still doing dishes, scrubbing floors and putting my pants on one leg at a time—all by myself. How disappointing. More »

4:16 PM on Wed Feb 28 2007
By www.gizmodo.com
3,538 views, 10 comments

Latest by deusdiabolus: It's all fine and good until the house becomes sentient and kidnaps your wife for propagation purposes. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075931/ more »

home entertainment

Best Buy's ConnectedLife.Home Automates the Life of Luddites for $15,000

Best Buy has decided to make home automation easier by offering its ConnectedLife.Home package, a $15,000 box-o-fun including an HP Media Center PC controlling an Xbox 360 as a media extender, along with a dozen Insteon remote light switches, a RCS networked thermostat you can control from that PC and a couple of Panasonic surveillance cameras. It's all linked together with an AnyWire Ethernet powerline network by Corinex, and is controlled by Exceptional Innovation Lifeware home automation software. More »

8:34 AM on Wed Dec 27 2006
By Charlie White
1,612 views, 12 comments

Latest by AVDP: What's really interesting to me is that you all hold such a low opinion of professional installers/integrators. Keep in mind this is Best Buy not a custom integration company because we wouldn't sell that stuff. There is absolutely no comparison more »

gadgets

The Clapper Plus—a Silent Clapper ... Wtf?

Mark Grossmeyer is man known for his often unique and innovative gadgets, but he has really outdone himself with this one. Grossmeyer didn't own a clapper because he did not want to take up his wife while going to bed, so what did he do? Well, he reinvented the clapper and added a remote-control. Welcome the Clapper Plus. This is the same old clapper that will still recognize the sound of hands slapping together, but it also includes a remote control for more silent light-turning-off methods. The Clapper Plus should be appearing on infomercials at 4 a.m. soon. – Travis Hudson More »

2:01 PM on Tue Dec 19 2006
By Travis Hudson
1,746 views, 6 comments

Latest by aldenoneil: I don't know that merely owning a clapper would prevent me from taking up my wife before bed. more »

gadgets

Electric Door Opener

We can see how an electric door opener is useful for small children, the elderly, and the infirmed, but if you're using this because you can't manage to get off your ass for 30 seconds to open the door for the UPS guy, you should just go smack your mother right now for not raising the lazy out of you. More »

8:13 PM on Mon Jun 5 2006
By Jason Chen
3,806 views, 10 comments

home entertainment

Harmony Home Automation Windows Media Center Plugin

Control fetishists rejoice! A new plugin for Harmony users is coming in just a few weeks. This updated MCE plugin allows users to load scenes, dim lighting, and control devices all with the standard MCE remote control. More »

2:51 PM on Mon May 22 2006
By Jason Chen
3,695 views, 5 comments

gadgets

Home Heartbeat - Home Monitoring Alert

You no longer have to guess wheether you've left the stove on or left the iron plugged in or left the back door open. With the Home Heartbeat from Eaton, various sensors attached to important items throughout your home will alert your cellphone to its status. More »

9:13 PM on Thu May 18 2006
By Jason Chen
302 views, 6 comments