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Home cinemas are also becoming the norm, according to Mr. Smith. " Although home cinemas started to feature in homes 10 years ago, they are more common now.
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The technology inside these rooms is also changing. People are installing 3D features and the technology is no longer provided by an overhead projector but there are open systems in place to run your home cinema on a Mac or a smartphone," he says.
Nicholas Creswell, who installed a home cinema system in his north London apartment, says he enjoys it despite his limited knowledge of the technology. " I am no technical expert myself but it gives me a great experience. The setup is designed in a way that the technology doeVVsn ' t become intrusive," says Mr. Creswell, who spent around £ 5,000 installing the entertainment system.
Still, technology has some way to go and experts warn it should deliver what it says on the tag. " Homeowners have to be very careful so these technologies don ' t turn out to be gimmicks. It ' s got to add a pleasurable experience to the home," Mr. Smith says. �
- The Wall Street Journal.
" The essence of this vision is the creation of environments saturated with computing and wireless communication, yet gracefully integrated with human users. Many key building blocks needed for this vision are now viable commercial technologies: wearable and handheld computers, high bandwidth wireless communication, location sensing mechanisms, and so on. The challenge is to combine these technologies into a seamless whole."
from the IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine
Smart Home: A Smart Home is a living space saturated with computing and communication, yet gracefully integrated with human occupants and visitors. tech8home. com
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