Part ‘Big Brother’ exhibitionism, part extreme Home Automation hack, the Icepick is a heavily-scripted house that has monitored the actions of its inhabitants via sensors, barcode scanners, and webcams since 1997. This may not make it the newest item on the superweb infocyber, but the continual tabulations of everyday events make it fascinating to statistics dorks like myself. For instance, did you know that someone opened the garage door today for 39.53 seconds? Or that yesterday someone threw out some Friskies Salmon Pate? This information may not make your life much, but it will make you just a little creepier for knowing it.
