Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 2:11am
I guess someone is already bored with Kinect Joy Ride, because a hacker called Nitrogen has taken his Kinect, and turned it into something to control the lighting in his living room....
home automation stories
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 3:54am
Tops on my home-entertainment wish list is the experience recorder invented by physicists played by Louise Fletcher and Christopher Walken in Douglas Trumball's Brainstorm. Such a gadget is highly fanciful (and likely to be co-opted by the military, just like...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 10:08am
These Revio programmable light switches by FirstHand Design go beyond high tech. There's a simple rubberized knob up front to turn on and dim the lights, but there's a lot more tech underneath. The capacitive touch panel controls four zones...
Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 1:53pm
Schlage has been tweaking their Internet enabled LiNK door lock system for a few months now, and its looking pretty good. Using the wireless Z-Wave standard, they've built their system to be the core of a complete home remote...
