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Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 12:32 GMT
Tim
Stop

Why?

Why would anyone relinquish control of their house to their computer? ROTM? Anyone? Granted if I was a quadriplegic it might come in handy, but so would a trained monkey.

If you want to improve light-switches, you want to improve the motion-sensors so they switch off when the room is empty and a manual over-ride for sleepers.

TV remotes can be improved upon by improved speech recognition.

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