The Microsoft Home

brummie said:
losing their concept of whats going on in the world.
Integrating a whole heap of projectors into the home is a challenge?
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That's not all they've integrated though is it.

I also think that microsoft have a better chance at launching something like this than anyone else, Mainly because the name will carry it.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
I think it'll become the norm, Microsoft seem to have it as a pivotal role for their vision of pervasive computing.
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I heard somewhere that Korea (or possibly Japan) are using the sim cards in mobile phones now to purchase items, the bill then is added onto your monthly call cost.

Simply scan the phone and pop your pin number in and your done.

So we're already seeing the start of phones becoming more than just communication devices in real world applications today!
 
I'd just like to state that all those people saying "this is old technology" are correct... that article may have been put up this year, but even Microsoft themselves have been doing this since late 2005 anyway.

The only things that have changed in the "Microsoft Home" from those pics and the ones I saw a few years back are a new mobile phone, the GPS system looks better and the prototype for a new Media Centre looks to be updated as well.

I also think some people are missing the point of the what MS are trying to do, this isn't "This is how your home will look like" this is just a test bed for new Microsoft technology, guests, focus groups and PR companies come in and play around the technology and if it's accepted Microsoft try to develop it further.
 
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wannabedamned said:
That's not all they've integrated though is it.

I also think that microsoft have a better chance at launching something like this than anyone else, Mainly because the name will carry it.
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Microsoft are not well known for their hardware based gadgets. I would personally buy from others and not M$
 
Nothing overly cool there except for making things more digital. Only thing I really liked was the Kitchen counter top display that suggested recipes and even that would wear off after a week or two.
 
Wow why dont we just kill ourselves already..
Whilst some of that stuff is impressive its completely OTT and would really p*** me off to live there.

Also..Irobot anyone?

"Mr smith you haven't taken your medication"

"I have I just took it"

""TAKE YOUR MEDICATION MR SMITH"

"I JUST DID"

*red lights flashing* ALERT ALERT


...guy dies from overdose
 
HP had a similarly impressive "virtual home" setup at their Bristol R&D labs 4 or so years ago when I worked there for 12 months.

COmpanies love setting these things up :)
 
Technology will eventually be the downfall to humankind.

It would annoy me to come home to a digital environment especially if I had just left an office surrounded by computers.

All we really need is a telephone, television/hi-fi and PC.

We don't need mirrors that tell us what to wear or what our friends are wearing. We don't need digital wallpapers. We don't need holograms of artefacts or an in-house bus timetable.

We rely on technology so much that I fear we're becoming more and more stupid by the generation. How many of you can memorize 5 numbers from your phonebook? When was the last time you did long division? If computers start dictating silly little things such as what recipes to use, we won't need to use our brains at all!

They're clever ideas, but at the same time ridiculous and hopefully none of them actually make it into production.

Pretty much all of the gadgets rely on lighting and it would be awful having to live in the dark just to be able to use all those ideas.

And I'd hate to imagine how much power consumption that requires as well...
 
Peño said:
Technology will eventually be the downfall to humankind.

It would annoy me to come home to a digital environment especially if I had just left an office surrounded by computers.

All we really need is a telephone, television/hi-fi and PC.

We don't need mirrors that tell us what to wear or what our friends are wearing. We don't need digital wallpapers. We don't need holograms of artefacts or an in-house bus timetable.

We rely on technology so much that I fear we're becoming more and more stupid by the generation. How many of you can memorize 5 numbers from your phonebook? When was the last time you did long division? If computers start dictating silly little things such as what recipes to use, we won't need to use our brains at all!

They're clever ideas, but at the same time ridiculous and hopefully none of them actually make it into production.

Pretty much all of the gadgets rely on lighting and it would be awful having to live in the dark just to be able to use all those ideas.

And I'd hate to imagine how much power consumption that requires as well...
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And yet, with the generations getting stupider and stupider, somehow each is able to supercede the last in terms of the technology that it creates.

Our ability to manipulate our surroundings is exactly the reason we are the dominant species on this planet. Personally I embrace human ingenuity and aim to advance it it any way I can.

Maybe I do not *need* an electronic read-out of my house's temperature, humidity etc, but I also do not *need* running hot water, if we can, and we can do it without actually destroying the environment we rely on (this is the tough bit, but we are getting better) then why shouldn't we?
 
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