Automate your home

With today and tomorrow’s technology, it’s easily possible to automate your home like one you’d see in a sci-fi film. Only 18 days to go, at the time this article was written, and SmartThings has already reached its Kickstarter goal twice over. It promises to turn virtually any physical object and switches into remotely usable interfaces. Its slogan is “Adding intelligence to everyday things in your world so that your life can be more awesome.” Until the initial US-only release, SmartThings encourages developers to contact it with ideas. An international launch is planned for Q3 2013.

It’s a strong proof that people are excited about the possibilities of technology in their domestic environments. In films, this has been shown to great effect. Most recently, the Iron Man series comes to mind with Tony Stark’s house and computers connected to Jarvis, a highly advanced artificial intelligence that’s even capable of joking around. There seems to exist a global craving for more dependance on gadgets and the Internet.