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South Korea's Home of the Future
An anonymous reader writes to mention a BBC article, looking at South Korea's vision of the home of the future. Their vision includes the use of many recent advances in interface technology, networking, and wireless communication. The difference? Unlike the high-tech demo homes we've discussed in the past, 100 of these units have already been built. Another 30,000 high-tech flats are in the planning stages, to be completed by 2008. From the article: "Here, everything is voice activated, and the fridge can provide you with recipes which use the ingredients inside, and let you know if your food is out of date. It relies on the food packaging containing radio tags, or RFID labels, which can be read by the fridge each time it passes through the door. In the bedroom your wardrobe mirror can tell you your schedule for the day, help you select your clothes — if all your clothes have washable radio tags compatible with the system — and keep you up to date with the weather and traffic."
and it must have made the cover of this month's Popular Science.
or maybe it's like HDTV and after YEARS (decades) of being heralded, it might finally be coming. still overhyped IMHO....
i disable sigs
Does it have a fallout shelter?
Won't someone please think of little 3yo Sebastion? Imagine what all those radio waves will do to his thin skull!
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
Can you play starcraft in it? Useless to Koreans if you can't!
Complete with microphones and video cameras in your television sets!
Does it have a large enough garage for my flying car?
"Fridge, list available meals."
"State ingredient search depth"
"Fridge, Level 5, 'hard-up-on-cash' level"
"Computing..."
"1 meal found"
"Fridge, show meals"
"Cheese. End of meal list."
Task Mangler
Does it run Linux?
"The Most Fun Possible on 4 wheels" is at SunBuggy in Las Vegas
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