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Oprah Winfrey & Home Automation

Icon Written by joshua on April 24, 2008 – 4:44 pm

Control 4 (one of the largest home automation manufaturers) announced today that the Oprah Winfrey Show will be showcasing their home automation system in an upcoming episode due to air on Friday, April 25. Many of the main features of the system will be presented by Oprah herself and Nate Berkus, one of America’s top [...]



Beauty & the Beast: Technology… meet design

Icon Written by joshua on April 10, 2008 – 12:39 pm

As a former Interior Designer, my aesthetic sensibilities have always won out over my more practical ones. If given a choice between an unsightly big-screen television and fine work of art, my decision was simple…beauty over function. Unfortunately, this isn’t practical for most the homes of today. Technology is becoming an ever greater part [...]



Seattle Home Show Feature: Vision Art

Icon Written by jennifer on October 12, 2007 – 11:26 am

The technology product which is gaining a ton of attention at the Seattle Home Show is VisionArt.
This product brilliantly conceals your television (every woman’s dream, right?!) with museum-quality artwork and hand-crafted framing. Clients can choose from 100’s of fine-art prints or simply use your own photography. VisionArt can be ordered to spec, and Architechtronics assists [...]



Product Preview: Sony VAIO XL3 Digital Living System

Icon Written by brett on September 9, 2007 – 4:52 pm

OK, so this is the first consumer Media Center with HD Cable Card Support. Niveus Media Centers have been around for a while longer but are also 2-3 times as much (not a complaint), Niveus caters to a higher end boutique market.



A Television that brilliantly disappears

Icon Written by jennifer on August 29, 2007 – 2:06 pm

I first experienced this disappearing-television-in-the-mirror thing at the MGM in Vegas. You may wonder, how does it work? When the television is off it looks like a normal mirror, but turn it on, and voila… it has a small television in it! I thought, “BRILLIANT!” I love innovative products that can hide technology for a [...]