I wrote about this yesterday :) Alexander's Law: Any new technology is doomed to become yet another cog on a giant Rube Goldberg machine somehow related to home automation.
Corollary: Most home automation applications are terribly over-engineered. Cheers, Alex On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:05 PM, AJKock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought David might enjoy this... > > http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/ > > "We'll preface this by saying this whole thing could be one giant > hoax, but it's most certainly within the realm of possibility. We're > told it's a mixture of Insteon, SMS and Twitter, all of which are > utilized in order to give one particular homeowner the ability to > activate / turn off lights remotely by sending a specific message to > the latter." > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
