Gadget Guru Builds High-Tech Haven 227
Alexander Burke writes "In the 27,000-square-foot Carmel, Indiana home of Scott Jones, head of Escient Technologies, fireplaces ignite and drapes close on demand, televisions appear as if by magic and the ceilings play music. Touch-screen panels throughout the house run lights, security, heat and cooling systems, and video and audio libraries. Speakers are embedded in the walls and ceilings behind the plaster. The home includes a movie theater that seats 20 and has a wine cellar accessible only by fingerprint scan. Ted's outfit brings us more information."
More information? (Score:3, Insightful)
More information? Hardly. That article was 278 words long, including headline and byline. The slashdot synopsis just about covered the entire thing.
No wait, let me quote it here (it won't even overflow a slashdot comment):
By Jeff Flock, CNN:
Yup. That's all folks. : )
Yeah, nice... um... tour. (Score:5, Insightful)
This guy is a Geek like the rest of us! (Score:4, Insightful)
Hey, how many of us bought the friggin X-10 cam bundles for 99.99? So we can see what our servers do while we are at Comdex?
How many of us don't have gigs of mp3's in the car? Even built one before commercial players were for sale?
The guy is just ab ubergeek who made some cash and modded the shit outta his house. More power to him!
I would kill to have my own theater. John Carpenters The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, big screen cheese fests for me and the bodies. And imagine Ron Jeremy on the big screen? Yikes.
We would all do something similar if we had the cash. We all got some weird wants.
What are some of the weird things you would do with bucks? Besides being altruistic?
Puto
asking for trouble? (Score:3, Insightful)
While Jones is traveling, he can check in on his abode via the Internet. As part of the security system, cameras are trained on every room of the house and every entrance. He can go on the Web and with a few clicks, zoom in on parts of the house or unlock doors from half a world away.
Now is it just me, or is this asking for trouble?
Re:Gotta love it... (Score:3, Insightful)
From the article:
If this techology makes it into everyday homes, then he's changed the world, for the better. What he's doing is just immersive research. And he's paying for it with his own money, which is more than can be said for our luxury-obsessed "leaders" talking about changing the world on their latest taxpayer-funded vacation in Jo'burg.
Re:Gotta love it... (Score:3, Insightful)
"You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong" -- Abraham Lincoln.
I hope his video and audio libraries are licensed. (Score:3, Insightful)