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  • Wireless Village
  • DIGITAL HOME MAGAZINE (11/1/2006)
  • Home technology pioneer plans to offer a wireless home automation system in all its new homes.
  • The Ultimate Digital Home
  • DIGITAL HOME MAGAZINE (11/1/2006)
  • Brookfield Homes is taking tech to the next level, testing standard and upgrade technology packages built around Sony's WallStation line of audio and video products.
  • Looking Past Displays #105: [1]
  • Dealerscope (11/1/2006)
  • All of this has come at the expense of categories such as audio, which has seen the rate of attachment to big screen display sales plummet over the past several years. The latest research from CEA, which covers the home theater market opportunity, reveals a beacon of hope for a retail future for home entertainment products that extends well past the display. First and foremost, the vast majority of consumers (83 percent) surveyed in the home theater study are telling us loud and clear, video and audio quality are equally important to the overall home theater experience.
  • Innovation House
  • Sunset (11/1/2006)
  • Welcome to our showcase of design ideas and home technology, created with an eye toward the futureThat was the question we asked ourselves when Sunset collaborated with Popular Science magazine to create this Idea House-the House of Innovation- in Alamo, California.Popular Science's editors imagined a smart home designed to take care of our most basic needs: alerting us to wake up, reminding us to lock the door, and automatically adjusting climate controls based upon our individual preferences.
  • A House That Does Windows
  • BIG BUILDER Magazine (10/15/2006)
  • For regular readers of this column, it will come as no surprise that I am not a big fan of things Microsoft. It's not that Windows is not a perfectly fine operating system or that MS Word and Excel aren't software industry standards. It is the vulnerability of Windows to viruses and worms–and the hackers that write them–that disturbs me.
  • It's a Snap
  • BUILDER Magazine (10/1/2006)
  • BUILDERS ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR low-cost, home-tech upgrades that bring the digital lifestyle to life for their home buyers.
  • Not So Remote #105: [1]
  • Dealerscope (10/1/2006)
  • Greater China's export of remote controls to reach $138 million in 2006Driven by the home entertainment and home automation sectors, the remote control industry in Greater China continues to post gains with export growth expected at 38 percent in 2006, or $138 million from $100 million in 2005, based on data gathered by Global Sources.The Greater China region, which covers mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, accounts for about 80 percent of the global production of remote controls.
  • Digital Icebreaker
  • DIGITAL HOME MAGAZINE (9/1/2006)
  • Builders are always looking for an icebreaker that will get home buyers interested in technologies such as distributed audio. The new iBridge Dock from Russound may be that starting point.

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