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Posted 02/11/99
1:52pm by Sean Fleming
Computer controlled houses go on the
market
Where is the centre of
wired Britain? Scotland's Silicon Glen, Cambridgeshire's
Silicon Fen?
Nah -- it's Watford, innit.
Strange but true, Watford is the location for an
estate of high-tech houses.
All the appliances
are connected to a central computer, allowing its
occupants to control their environment remotely, should
they feel the need, from a Web pad.
You can also
access the house from the Internet, so that if -- for
example -- you are working late you can adjust the
heating, put some washing on, start cooking your dinner
and even water the garden. That way when you arrive home
late after a long day in the office you can find your
dirty laundry spread evenly across your lawn, your
dinner in the dishwasher and your best china baking in
the oven.
Pundits are saying the take-up of such
techno-homes could be slow at first, according to an
item on the BBC. And let's face it, only an idiot
would entrust their home to a bunch of computers. Oh, an
idiot and Bill Gates, that is.
Priced at
£500,000, with around £20,000 of that making
up the cost of the in-house IT, the houses have all been
sold.
Barnum was right, there really is one born
every minute. ®
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