high tech living

ritcH

ritcH

ritcH

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I was expecting life to be more high tech by now, maybe it is and I haven't noticed but what high technology do you use to make your life better / more futuristic? I need some new ideas.

I use LEDs light bulbs, I want to get some LED strip lighting can anyone recommend a good place to buy that sort of thing?

My car feels quite futuristic, I can ask it to do certain things via ford sync.

I'm thinking of getting a raspberry pi to use as a media centre for the TV. I haven't setup a sophisticated network, apart from streaming movies to the TV I can't think of a good use for one. What do you use a home network for? I use powerline adaptors because they use to be better than wifi, is that still the case?

I'm looking into getting an app that will allow me to control my windows computer from my phone. Does anyone have any recommendations?

I have an electric toothbrush, which actually did make me feel like I was moving into the future when I started using it many years ago!

I suppose Google glasses are nearly here but I think I'll wait for the contacts version.
 
Look into Home Automation. Turn appliances and lights on and off from your phone. Not cheap but it's high tech living for sure.
 
People can upload embarrassing pictures of me drunk to the whole world and I can do nothing to stop it. They seem to be able to do it where ever I am, and regardless of ambient light conditions. Seems like the future to me.
 
Have a word with James Cameron. Perhaps he can hook you up with a t-1000

You could have him do all the cooking, ironing and it would be great for automated home defense.

High tech enough for you ?
 
To be honest you're only touching the surface of what can be done these days.

Lighting alone is crazy what you can do now. I've got LED strip lights in most rooms that work off IR (by choice) which means I can control the lights in any room with my various all in one remotes dotted about the house.

My friends have ALL the sockets and switches wired up to some crazy expensive WiFi / phone app controlled system that allows them to turn off and on devices and light with their phone.

For media I've got 4 rooms in the house setup to use Plex that allows synced libraries of TV shows and movies. With Plex on my phone I can start watching a TV show on the way home from work and resume from where I left off when I get home in the livingroom. Then I'll start a film in the livingroom and hit resume in the bedroom.

I've got my cinema room all wired up to allow everything, including electronic screen, to all be activated via an all in one remote (I actually choose to do this over a phone app because I find loading the apps on phone a pain in the ass when you can just reach for the remote)

On top of that, as others have, I've got remote secure access via SSH to my server and remote desktop to most computer in my house even from the outside world.

Hell, even all that is probably nothing compared to what's actually possible - just what my budget allows! :)
 
I think its all about perception.

I remember a couple of years ago my parents phoning me and asking me for directions. They were in France talking on their mobile to me on my mobile. I fired up google maps, located where they were, where they wanted to be, and directed them accordingly.

I was born in 1980 and if someone said to me when I was 10 that all this would be possible I would have been amazed. We take advancement in technology very much for granted, and yet when you think back at what we can do today it is quite incredible how far we have come in the last 30 years.
 
Maybe just me but sometimes I just prefer old fashioned technology, seems a lot of it has better build quality and lasts longer, lots of newer products seem cheaply built and don't last long at all. The more tech built into a device, the more chance of something going wrong.
 
Thats true but most of the old stuff doesn't have HDMI, smart hubs, DNLA, WiFi and all that.
 
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