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The NextGen home - straight from CES
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Written by: Jacob Lumetta Email Print Ask
Date posted: January 8th 2006 Email Article Print Article Ask a question
Category: Articles > Editorial

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As we walk down the hallway we see a piece of artwork that the supposed "owner" of this house has painted on a large HP plasma display. Granted not all of us are artists so it is of course possible display a series of artwork from your favorite artist since content can be streamed from the in-house server (which we will look at later) directly to this display via the wireless network.

Continuing down the hallway we come to another touch-screen panel surrounded by panel of other wall mounted controls. Here we are shown how everything is integrated together. For example when the thermostat temperature is changed on the panel the change is shown in the actual thermostat and vice versa. The other panels control different things like the current lighting scene or music selection but are all integrated with the home system so every device is on the same page so to speak.

The next stop on our tour is the kitchen. Here we find what looks to be your typical sink and faucet. But this faucet is quite unique. The knob on the right is used to turn the water flow to the faucet on and off but the neck of the faucet is touch sensitive so turn make water flow out of the faucet you simply tap anywhere on the neck and it will turn on. Tap again and it turns off. Pretty simple eh. The faucet can also be put into a mode where it only runs when something is underneath it making it extremely efficient at conserving water. The man demoing the faucet said it will be sold at a price point of around $800USD so it's certainly not cheap.


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