Category: Connected Home

• Connected Home

  Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd’s version of the automated home, circa 1954

  How Looney Tunes imagined the automated home of the future 60 years ago… “Design for Leaving” is a Looney Tunes short from 1954 parodying smart home technology of the day, including the Design for Living House in the Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago. Daffy…

  March 5, 2014
• CES Connected Home

  Is your automated home a Mac or a PC?

  As Google buys Nest today, it increases the pressure for consumers to decide what type of operating system they want their home to run. And what types of off-the-shelf and add-on devices they should buy. Is your connected home a Mac or a PC? Apple or Android? The internet of…

  January 13, 2014