How should look like a kitchen in the smart home? Maybe it should be something like Z. Island by DuPontâ„¢ Corian®. The futuristic design and an “intelligent†environment that responds to the desires of the senses make the innovative functional kitchen: The project envelops multimedia equipment, sound actuators and LEDs within a flowing shell of Corian® – the original solid surface from DuPont – enabling […]
Proprietary Integrated Control System
Proprietary Integrated Control System (PICT) is a new home automation system. I don’t know is it open source or not but its site doesn’t look like corporative. The availabe sceenshots also don’t look as hight quality system. Anyway, let’s see it after its the first release.
Back of High tech home
Telegraph.co.uk published an impression of one lady who is owner of high tech home. This home was designed and developed with using expensive, professional automated system. This fact can give a side benefit to open source projects like Plutohome or MisterHouse.
Top technological features for smarthome
Pre-set lighting controls: Allows lighting to be programmed in several favoured formats, for example a “dinner party” setting or a “watching television” format. Lights can also be set to dim over time Fingerprint entry system: Foolproof in theory, though some users have complained the system can be temperamental Fully-programmable audio system: Allows you to store your favourite pieces of music and to play them throughout […]
Bluetooth broadcasting system
Muze and MobileVideoNet have launched a system for broadcasting videos to cellphones via Bluetooth: The system consists of independent units that form a video area, within which MobileVideoNet’s 3GP videos are randomly pushed to any Bluetooth devices that are detected. Cellphone users first receive a message asking them if they’d like to receive the video — if they reject it, the system apparently remembers it […]
Nokia 770 a firmware upgrade
Nokia 770 developers promised to include next version of OS some usefull features such IM and VoIP client. Well, they did it in OS 2006. Moreover, existing owners of Nokia 770 can get it as upgrade. It allows to get new features without waste their customizations. A new features in the OS 2006 edition include: Pre-installed Google Talk Free service lets users chat and speak […]
Elite ECS H70 UMPC
Elite Group H70 UMPC is coming to US soon. It was announced on the last CEBIT together with Samsung and Asus. ECS H70 is powered by Intel Celeron M ULV 900 MHZ processor and Intel GMS + ICH6 -M chipset. It features 256 MB DDR 400 SO-DIMM SDRAM, 7″ WVGA (800×480) TFT display, 30GB 4200rpm 1.8″ HDD, 3-in1 card reader (SD/SDIO/MS/MMC), 1.3 megapixel camera. As […]
Media Center PC Case
Here is a case for PC-based media center from Antec – NSK2400. It has an aluminum front plate, room for two optical drives, two hard drives and a micro-ATX motherboard. The case looks nice and won’t break design of your livin room.