Where is the touchscreen house?
Walls can now tweet, handle your Facebook and even help you stay in touch with friends.
Welcome to Openarch — the world’s first interactive house that features “gesture-controlled Internet-based elements on your wall”. That’s right. Just wave to the alarm clock to stop.
According to its website, “Openarch is a real prototype of a smart home. The first home designed from scratch to incorporate a digital layer connecting the house and its elements to the Internet.”
That digital layer is now called D. OS or the domestic operating system.
“The hardware is complete but only 40 per cent of the software is finished,” Ion Cuervas-Mons, director of Think Big Factory, a Spanish design agency which created the project, was quoted as saying in a DailyMail report.
“Through projections that are activated by the presence of a person, we can control everything with the movement of the hands: the lights; turning on any electrical household appliances; music; even connecting to Skype for a conference from any part of the house,” he added.
The project has already built an apartment in Spain that's using these features with the help of available technologies that include the Microsoft Kinect system and an assortment of projectors.
And what can you really see inside the apartment? The alarm clock can be an entire bedroom wall, the living room has your Facebook being projected, online shopping websites can project life-sized products right inside your dressing room.
Post new comment