From the BBCs innovation news pages…

Go digital presenter Tracey Logan despairs at the house of the future on show at the perfect house exhibition in London, where the household have ended up being digital couch potatoes.

Back in 1960, at London’s everyday Mail perfect house Exhibition, the house of the future was a blue as well as white striped area automobile in orbit, modelled on the second stage of a Saturn IV rocket.

The colours were practical, created to take in as well as radiate intense solar radiation endangering future neighborhoods unshielded by the Earth’s atmosphere… as well as the pod’s rather cramped lounge did at least boast a TV, even if zero gravity required the couch potato of tomorrow to hook himself as much as restraining straps to prevent drifting away from the screen.

The fantastic thing about this perfect house was its vision of a future where innovation would, actually in this case, turn our lives upside down.

I suspect none of the 200,000 visitors who passed with area automobile ever seriously pictured living in one. however it set their pulses racing as well as that is what houses of the future are all about.

If, by some miracle of time travel, those post-war, pre-PC couples might have seen the area Air show home I checked out at the present perfect house Exhibition, they may have been confused.

Why would any individual want a computer in their living room?

Media hub – Now that we are all utilized to the concept of computers as enjoyment devices, I continue to wonder. phone call me old fashioned, however if the PC is in there, why not ship in the washing machine, too?

But there is a great deal that is practical about this year’s digital house of the future.

Linda Barker adds a touch of beauty to the media home
There is area Air’s environmental manage system that keeps home air fresh as well as at the ideal temperature.

This might be helpful as legislations to minimize worldwide warming motivate much better house insulation as well as dwellings that are bit a lot more than airtight containers of home emissions.

And then there is its crowning glory: a wireless broadband digital house enjoyment system, installed by Abrocour with a digital set of parts from Microsoft as well as Intel, among others, as well as a BT broadband connection in the broom cupboard.

With this you can enjoy as well as listen or surf the web from anywhere in the home thanks to a digital media hub that feeds material to appliances in nearly every room.

The piece de resistance is a gigantic flat screen TV/monitor on the living space wall cunningly put at the apex of an equilateral triangle that has Linda Barker’s comfy, cream corduroy sofa as its base.

On this couch, sharing just the one remote control, an entire household would enjoy TV, play video games, or surf the Web together. any individual as well worn out or overwhelmed to bring on doing this in the sitting space might continue in bed, without missing a scene.

On entering, I might not assist wondering what a scrabble board was doing on the living space floor. In the digital future, wouldn’t that be on screen, too?

Computer innovation discovers its method into every room, even the kitchen
What is wonderful about the area Air house is its absence of spaghetti tangles of cords gathering dust behind each appliance.

What is rather so not wonderful is this show home’s proximity to reality.

Indeed, any individual with a moderate stock of money as well as a lust for diy experience might ideal now develop themselves a digital house wireless system. See the useful “how to” guide on Intel’s web site if you don’t believe me.

And why the depressing vision of a future where all the household being digital couch potatoes together is the utmost in having fun?

Surely, the perfect house exhibition is selling itself short here? In the past it has brought us the microwave oven, the refrigerator as well as the far as well costly as well as silly, however absolutely cute, solar-powered robot lawnmower.

Surely this year they might have come up with something a bit a lot more gripping that the area Air house?

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