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Home Automation
, Smart Homes
, Wired Home General
, Wired Outdoors
on September 4, 2010
What's better than a wired home bedecked with all the gadgets known to mankind? A wired and automated home that partially runs on renewable energy, that's what! What's the use of all that machinery if your home consumes more power than a small casino?
It's a good thing there are companies that cater to the needs of environment-conscious homeowners. Take, Sunforce, for example. It has an entire line of products geared towards giving homes alternative sources of power or ways to contribute to the global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
I live in a windy coastal village, which is why I'm considering the installation of a wind turbine to generate a bit more juice for my growing home. With four computers and a host of other gadgets, the house isn't exactly a model for energy efficiency. It can use a little more power-green energy, if it can be helped.
© Sunforce
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Gadgets
, Smart Homes
, Wired Home General
on August 28, 2010
The front door of every home, even wired homes, serves as the first line of defense against intrusions. In today's fast-paced and dynamic world, no front door is complete without a peephole, which helps homeowners identify who's knocking or ringing the bell.
Although useful in checking if people are at your door, the decades-old peephole is unreliable in precisely identifying them as images viewed through the little fisheye lens, which shows a wide field of view, are often blurred or warped.
Home security camera maker Brinno Incorporated has come up with a simple and novel solution to this problem: the Brinno PeepHole Viewer.
© Brinno Inc.
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Entertainment
, Home Theater
, Speakers
, Television
on August 21, 2010
In order to enjoy a gadget-or anything else for that matter-it must please a couple or more senses. You can't really say you love a brand new LCD Television if it gives you a clear picture but dismal acoustics. The same is true with home entertainment system speakers. You can't tell friends about your new speakers if they look like they have come out of the back side of Godzilla even if they give off crisp and clear sounds.
Enter the BDV-IZ1000W, super-thin and angled speakers from Sony. Get these babies and start bragging to your friends about your home entertainment speaker system that is not only powerful but aesthetically pleasing as well.
© Sony
Here are some key features of the Sony BDV-IZ1000W that you may want to know:
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Wired Bathroom
on August 14, 2010
About two years ago, United Kingdom-based Design Odyssey Ltd. gave us a glimpse of the future of bathrooms with the Vertebrae, dubbed as the world's first vertical bathroom because it only occupies 4.3 square feet of floor space and as the "Swiss Army Knife Bathroom" because it resembles a large Swiss Army Knife with myriad tools one would need inside the bathroom such as a couple of showers, a toilet and a water basin with faucet.
Fast forward to 2010 and the Vertebrae is now poised for a coming out party. According to Design Odyssey, the Vertebrae will be available in Autumn 2010. The unique bathroom, however, isn't being marketed for use in wired homes; its main market niche is companies and hotels.
© Design Odyssey UK Ltd.
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Gadgets
, Home Automation
, Smart Homes
, Wired Home General
on August 7, 2010
Green technology is nothing new. Development of environment-friendly machines that give us better ways of doing things are being churned out by the dozen (or even by the hundreds) every year. In the Design Pipeline for the wired home this month we have the Orbital, a concept washing machine from the mind of United Kingdom-based Tiffany Roddis.
Roddis calls her creation a sustainable washing machine that utilizes a new approach to washing clothes. This "new approach" involves a spherical drum (instead of the cylinder we see in today's washing machines) that rotates and pivots on two axes. This innovation makes sure clothes are washed thoroughly and more efficiently than our current batch of washing machines.
Orbital is envisioned to come with two detachable drums, one colored white and the other blue. Why different colors for drums that you'll put in the same washing machine anyway? Well, aside from aesthetic considerations, with color-coded drums you can sort your clothes according to color before cranking up the washing machine. You may also use these drums as baskets!
© Tiffany Roddis
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