Panasonic R&D 'House of the Future' To Open

Posted by Zonk on Saturday December 31, 2005 @09:33AM from the sign-me-up-for-a-stint dept.

Tomo Hiratsuka writes "On January 4 Panasonic opens its new R&D showcase in Tokyo, featuring the usual raft of environmentally friendly products and a take on how to make gadgets more usable for the graying societies of the future. Examples are thin on the ground at the minute but the company's Universal Design (UD) concept could be just the kind of simplification everybody's grandparents have been whining for over the holidays when faced with the space-age remotes on new-fangled DVD players and the like." Details can be found via CBS, and an official release.

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GPX2 - Linux hand-held device... by Animaether · 2005-12-31 10:05 · Score: 0, Offtopic

well.. totally off-topic, but I followed an ad from that site to http://www.dynamism.com/ , and from there to http://www.dynamism.com/gp2x/

Sounds like a potentially cute device.. already runs linux, the developers have a wiki, they embrace open source and tinkering.. hmm(!)