Monday, March 19, 2012

Smart Homes: Are We There Yet?

Those who have played Xbox Kinect will have experienced a little of what it’s like to live in a digitally submersive world like that featured in the movie Minority Report, where a wave of your controller-free hand has cause and effect on a screen in front of you. Well, this prototype by openarch.cc shows us a Smart Home where screens are no longer required, a home where the walls and floors become viewing stations at which to play games, video chat, surf the internet and use a multitude of handy household app style functions: