Sometimes it can be a juggling act watching all your children and keeping the house organized. Keeping an eye on children at play or sleeping can be made easier with an in-home video monitoring system. In just a few moments, you can have a wireless video monitoring system watching over your children.
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Make your home the envy of your friends and neighbors with the sophistication and elegance of the SwitchLinc Dimmer — the ultimate INSTEON-compatible dimmer. SwitchLinc Dimmers fill your entire home with personalized mood lighting for any occasion. You’ll always know how much more your lights can be dimmed or brightened thanks to an exclusive LED light bar that you can see at a glance.
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Once you play with this neat gadget, you will probably find yourself checking the surface temperature of everything in sight. Simply squeeze the trigger and an instant reading, based on infra-red emissions, appears on the backlit display. With a temperature range of 0 to 500 degrees Fahrenheit, you can check the temperature of that overclocked chip you have running in your case. Also check your oven, refrigerator, heater, AC, fish tank, wine cellar, and so on. Accuracy of +/- 2 percent. Selectable in Celsius or Fahrenheit readings.
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Yahoo has “Tech Tuesday” and this past week’s article dealt with Home Automation which is near and dear to my heart! Here’s a sample of the article:
Joel Durham Jr. – ExtremeTech
The PC-controlled digital home is gradually becoming a reality. While we’re still a long way from living like the Jetsons, with robot maids and dishwashers that verbally demand a particular type of detergent, we have the capacity to automate and secure many aspects of our homes using personal computers.
For instance, with a simple program and a number of specialized controllers, you can control the lights throughout your entire house from one computer. You can tell the coffee maker when to turn on and the toaster when not to. You can also keep an eye out for motion around the house with PC-controlled motion detectors, and keep an eye on who is where, and who isn’t where they should be, with cameras that report to your computer.
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Let your computer water the lawn. Make your TV turn itself down when the phone rings. Taking the do-it-yourself mentality to a whole new level, Geek House teaches the tech-savvy consumer how to hack, customize, and modify everything from sprinkler systems to barbecue temperature. This book will guide you through 10 PC-based hardware hacking projects to add a little intelligence to your house.
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With all the stress you deal with during the work week, there’s nothing like spending weekends and vacations at that relaxing vacation home by the beach or the cozy family-owned cabin near the lake. The only problem is, depending on the time of year, usually the place is freezing or roasting when you first arrive. Sure, you can crank up the heat or air conditioner, but even that will take a couple of hours to really take effect.
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Program meals to be ready when you arrive home. TMIO brings you the Internet, cell phone, and telephone controlled IO professional series intelligent oven. TMIO creates unprecedented mobility for your household, and revolutionizes your lifestyle and cooking experience with the 30-inch dual oven, refrigerated, internet-controlled, connect io. A true dream appliance for those with busy lifestyles; dinner is ready when you are. This stainless-steel beauty lets you refrigerate your meal before you leave for work. You can then set cooking times with your phone, PDA or computer.
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When it comes to protecting your family and home, there is no such thing as being too careful. Motion-activated security lights are one answer, but most of the floodlights you’ll find at your local home warehouse store will only illuminate one small portion of your property. Experienced burglars know this, and they know how to approach homes without stepping into the hot spot.
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Now you can monitor your home and control all of its electronic devices remotely with the Remote Life Home Controller. Since Remote Life is accessible via the web and via any Internet-connected cell phone or PDA as well as through your home connection, you can control your lighting, appliances, thermostats and security cameras (all sold separately) from practically anywhere in the world.
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This is a really exciting time for Smarthome. We have launched and begun shipping our new products with our new technology called INSTEON. INSTEON is a network protocol that is a cost-effective dual band (radio frequency – RF and powerline) home management network technology. Insteon will change the home automation industry. INSTEON has already won two highly rated industry awards -Consumer Electronic Show (CES) Innovations 2005 Design and Engineering Awards in the Software/Embedded Technologies category and Integrated Home Systems category, respectively. If you’d like to read more about INSTEON please visit www.insteon.net.
You can purchase this next-gen home automation technology only from Smarthome.
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