Gadget Guru Builds High-Tech Haven

Alexander Burke writes "In the 27,000-square-foot Carmel, Indiana home of Scott Jones, head of Escient Technologies, fireplaces ignite and drapes close on demand, televisions appear as if by magic and the ceilings play music. Touch-screen panels throughout the house run lights, security, heat and cooling systems, and video and audio libraries. Speakers are embedded in the walls and ceilings behind the plaster. The home includes a movie theater that seats 20 and has a wine cellar accessible only by fingerprint scan. Ted's outfit brings us more information."

Comments

Yeah, nice... um... tour.

[Torgo's Pizza]

What I love about the article the most is the picture of the outside of the house. Too bad there isn't anything of the inside of the house and the streaming video is only for paid subscribers. Otherwise, the article is a total fluff piece. No real substance to it at all. It's like a short "House of the Future" blurb right out of the 1957 issue of Popular Mechanics. Changing the world indeed...

This guy is a Geek like the rest of us!

[puto]

Call him an arrogant rich bastard but he is a geek like the rest of us.

Hey, how many of us bought the friggin X-10 cam bundles for 99.99? So we can see what our servers do while we are at Comdex?

How many of us don't have gigs of mp3's in the car? Even built one before commercial players were for sale?

The guy is just ab ubergeek who made some cash and modded the shit outta his house. More power to him!

I would kill to have my own theater. John Carpenters The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, big screen cheese fests for me and the bodies. And imagine Ron Jeremy on the big screen? Yikes.

We would all do something similar if we had the cash. We all got some weird wants.

What are some of the weird things you would do with bucks? Besides being altruistic?

Puto