Next year, Nokia will start selling its Home Control Centre, letting mobile owners keep tabs on their electronic kit while they’re away from home, as well as monitor energy usage, and heating, but next year’s too far away. We’ve been playing with it today!
Home automation is no longer the preserve of Bill Gates and the like thanks to the affordable skills of HM4, a 1TB server that can send four different data streams, including live TV, around your house at the same time.
Arctic conditions in the bedroom and rainforest humidity in the bathroom can be monitored and balanced with the weather-predicting Clima Control panel from Oregon Scientific.
Controlling your lighting, air con, music, curtains etc from a single wall panel like some kind of James Bond villain is what home automation is all about and Intensia is doing it in style. You can even watch your CCTV on its own LCD screen.
So many iPhone rivals took their lead from Apple’s utilitarian design that the original now looks almost uninspired
It can snaffle up sharper shots when there isn’t much available light around
Chaos Rings, a new original iPhone RPG with stunning 3D graphics, has just been announced by the team behind the Final Fantasy games, Square Enix. We’ve got the first trailer of the game right here, so read on to see it in action!
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