There are two types of people: outgoing and introvert. Both may be diametrically different in the manner of expressing themselves but are on the same page when it comes to convenience. Revolv, a sensational app-based control system, looks to put together two different automaton systems and manages a conscious home.
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Cool Kitchen Innovations for GenX Homes
A thought from the bygone era- kitchen is an ancillary unit. Oh! Just that place where you cook meals and do the dishwashing bit. Don’t let it eat space, keep it tiny. And yes, preferably in some excluded area of the home. I can vouch for the complete whitewash of this line of thought.
Today, kitchen is the area around which homes are built. It gets maximum footfall. If a home could be personified, I would not mind calling kitchen its heart. Kitchen renovation is a worthy thought at any time. Let me take you through a few innovative ideas which are befitting of a kitchen reno project.
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3 Common Problems Posed By Automatic Garage Doors
I think that the housing boom did great justice to the cause of curb appeal and among many other things related to the exterior of a house, garage doors also came into the limelight. One cannot question the utility of a garage door and this makes its maintenance a point worth talking about.
Do we care about maintaining our garage doors and shielding them from wear and tear, noise issues and so on. Here are 3 problems faced at large by the automatic garage doors.
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Story Of A Self-Monitoring High Tech House
What if we can consistently produce more energy than we consume? What if all our homes could monitor their energy consumption and quickly fix any anomaly that spikes the electricity bill? Great thoughts those and luckily more than a few houses are implementing such ideas.
Bud Dietrich in an article for houzz.com talks about one such home which is highly energy-efficient and monitors itself.
How To Answer Your Doorbell Without Being At Home
You suffer from an ineffable fear each time you leave your kids back home. You don’t quite like the prospect of leaving home when you are expecting an important visitor. Let me bring you out of this fear and disappointment. In case you have missed the news so far, a cutting-edge WiFi-enabled doorcam cum doorbell makes your life a lot easier. A YouTube video talks about iDoorCam WiFi.
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Get Your Own IMAX Home Cinema Experience
IMAX is pairing up with Mozaex to come up with state-of-the-art custom home cinema experience, reports Jeff Kleist for the online magazine Technology Tell. Mozaex, renowned globally for its multimedia servers, will manage the content delivery system along with handling the custom server in entirety.
Mozaex will improvise (customise) on its own existing shelf; supporting a repertoire of streaming, audio and media features. 24/7/365 customer support from their side will make the IMAX theatre experience fool-proof.
One feels that Mozaex will do well to talk a little about the hardware involved.
IMAX’s immersive home cinema experience is waiting for you. For $2 million you will be able to have your IMAX cinema at home.
You can read the original article here.
It is unbelievable theatre experience for sure but do you think the cost is still worth it? What would be your first purchase if you had $2 million to spend on yourself?
The Secret Of Nanocrystal Windows
I won’t say I am too keen on a completely robotised world but I certainly like a dash of automation in my home improvement. I was all for the robo-cleaners when they came 20 years ago and stuck to them (in hope) long after finding they were pitiful.
Thankfully, automation products of this day do not arouse pity; they take me by surprise-each time, every time. Jeff Kleist reports about nanocrystal windows in an article on the website Technology Tell. On first call, they are just the kind of thing I might easily fall in love with.
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M2M Technology To Boost Energy Savings
Don’t you want to live in a time when your refrigerator will tell you each time it needs being restocked or your air-conditioner will inform you whenever its filter gets clogged?
Well! We are already knocking on such times in a big way with the M2M technology (machine to machine correspondence). An article on the Connected World Magazine reports about the possibilities.
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