Posted in Furniture, Home Decor on 15 July 2009
Designing a home can often be tricky and in the case of getting things right for a kid’s room, it is far more difficult as you need to take in their own opinion, weigh it up against your budget options and then achieve the best compromise. In case your little one wants a dreamland in your bedroom or a fairytale setting, then here is something that is a perfect fit. Not just for kids, but in case you wish to invite some mystic charm and gentle aura into your room from a singularly unexpected source, then the Light Pillow is just the way to go.
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Posted in Concept, Designer, Elite Find of the Day, Gadgets, Home Decor, Technology on 30 May 2008
Till date we have been welcoming futuristic creation of homes by various designers. How about lending attention to Microsoft’s reflection of the “Home of the Future”? A software company took it as an opportunity to create a mock home that fits well the title of technology-driven home for tomorrow. The home erected at their campus in Redmond, Washington is now 15 years old but the topical restoration sports Microsoft’s prophecy of how household electronics and amenities should look and can look in coming years.
Through the mock model, it has been clearly conveyed that everything in this home runs on a central network together with cell phones and even home’s doorbell located as nodes on that network. The entry of family members to the home is easily identified by their mobile devices and hence they receive a warm welcome. Equipped with the RFID factor, virtually everything in this home is embedded with radio-frequency-identification technology. There is also a possibility of installing a system, which understands the need for scattered things to go back where it belongs. At kitchen front, while pulling out the needed appliances and ingredients, the “smart kitchen” can sense what they are about to make and hence helps them by enabling the countertop display the recipe.
But this is not all. In order to maintain its exclusivity, Microsoft’s future home does not consist of walls and surfaces covered with PC monitors and screens.
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