Microsoft's vision of the house of the future was disturbing...
...and I shall provide an alternative.
No front door keys, you wont need them, just a hand scanner. I had to wonder what would happen if you put on a Surgical glove and applied just the right ammount of presure over someone else's greasy finger print residue.. Would the door unlock itself promptly for the Man burgling your house? What a fantastic idea! That'll stop em from getting in for sure! :p
Yes, it would, because as we all know gloves don't work with modern active scanners. A heated Jell-O cast of the fingerprint residual though... :cool:. At any rate, just switch this over to a standard keypad. Remember to wipe it clean when you leave though, or someone might baby powder it and break in whilst you're gone.
And the idea of walking round with Clothe's filled with RFID tags and a computer on the wardrobe that suggest's what to wear when you go out stick's me as being just a tad sad. When I go out I dont ask the computer what I should wear...
I would, but if you think I'm letting RFIDs anywhere
near my clothes you're loony. Take the article description, chuck it in an SQL database, and associate it with a particular event ("everyday", "formal dinner", "new cult member induction" come to mind).
It's all well and good having a house controled by a computer, but.. What if a virus infects the House and you suddenly find yourself locked inside with the temprature rising with no way to communicate your plight with the outside world.. You cant open the window.. those are all computer controlled as is the Phone and pretty much everything in the house. But dont worry theres still running water right! So dont panic just relax, it'll take you at least 6 weeks to waste away...
The phone is digital anyway. Don't believe me? Try calling out during a severe power outage. You're screwed. Stick to Simbian cell phones, or older Nokias. The windows have emergency release levers, but this - again - is only in my Linux-based house. Of course, escaping out a window rather than the front door is a minor inconvenience, but at least Door_Module() can be fixed with a modicum of tinkering and the aid of a Phillips-head screwdriver.
At the end of the show the woman sat on the couch reading a childs story book and the house reacts to the story with the right lighting and effect's to compliment the story.. That will probably disturb children into having nightmares about the house being alive instead of soothing them off to sleep!
This would be possible in my house as well, but it would at least
compare "story-spookiness" to "lighting-level" and "child-age" before making such adjustments. Such is the majick of SQL.
