If you believe companies like Microsoft or Apple, the so called connected home will be the next big thing when it comes to teching-up your living space. Microsoft’s vision puts several Microsoft and Microsoft-partner products on center stage, including the company’s Xbox system with Kinect, Windows Phone and Windows Server.
The first video is a quick walk through Microsoft’s Connected Home in Munich, Germany. This presentation room uses technology that is available today, including Windows 7, Windows Phone or the Xbox 360 with Kinect.
You will see how phone apps control different elements of the room, like the room’s lighting for instance or temperature. There is also a lot of interconnectivity going on, like controlling the Xbox interface with a Windows Phone, or using a Windows 7 Tablet PC to send videos to multiple screens in the home.
Microsoft put a lot of technology into that room to make life easier and more comfortable at the same time. With these technologies becoming more mainstream, prices will go down as well, which will make those solutions more affordable for a larger audience.
The second video looks at the Microsoft Home. This is the vision that Microsoft has of the home of the future. The Home is located on the Redmond campus and only accessible by invitation.
It demonstrates how a home could look like in five, ten or even fifteen years from today on. This for instance includes a watch that is acting has a health reading device that you can place on a specially prepared tablet to transfer the readings to an app that is displaying charts and other information about your health then.
One of the impressive technologies in the house is a program that can detect items and elements on screen when watching videos for instance. This includes shop signs, but also items that people carry around with them like a backpack for instance.
How would you envision the connected home of the future?
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