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Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-whats-wrong-with-the-analog-kind dept.

Gingerman writes "The BBC is running a story about a full automated lifestyle centre in Wokingham UK. The centre has everything from the home to the office and includes shops too." It's a little thin on details, but its a mix of practical things that could be around the corner, and stuff that may be a little further down a 6 lane interstate.

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  1. HP has much more info than the article... by bahtama · · Score: 5, Informative
    Well, you know that they obviously have a webpage about it:

    http://www.cooltown.hp.com/

    Here is the open source codebase for some of it.
    http://www.cooltown.hp.com/dev/

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  2. Re:Remember... by Howie · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nothing has changed much - Those old shows were done by the industrial giants of that time: GE, GM (Futurama at the 1939 Worlds Fair - the source of the six-lane highway gag), Westinghouse...

    For example, MS have their little (and rather underwhelming) showcase in SFO at the Metreon.

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  3. Re:Not this world... by AsylumWraith · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sprint is already doing something like this. For an additional $5/mo or so, you can have voice dialing on your cellular phone.