If you fancy living in
home that tells you when t take your medication, what ingredient you have in
your fridge (and what you could make with them), how much dough you need to
make bread and gives your fashion advice! Then the prototype Microsoft home
of the future might be for you.
It’s got some interesting
features and particularly the features to do with supporting cooking in the
kitchen might have a place in schools of the future.
It also has a huge
interactive dining room table – presumably based on Microsoft Surface and Interactive
walls in the child’s bedroom. Again Interactive walls could be a feature
eventually in future schools – wouldn’t it be great if the walls showed
different things depending on what you were learning?
One of the other
features of the bedroom is a mirror (presumably rear projection?) that responds
to hand gestures and that can tell you what’s in your cupboard and what goes
with what!
This three minute BBC video
is worth a quick look to see the sort of things that might be commercially possible
very soon.
Never mind schools. It'd have a place in my home due to my poor culinary skills. I have two boys who complain vocally about the asda plastic bag microwave food I provide...
Posted by: Andrea | May 30, 2009 at 09:10 PM