Home Automation

Weather Forecasting Clock

Weather Forecasting Clock

The BAR 338 Exact Set Projection Weather Forecaster and Atomic Clock from Oregon Scientific is packed full of time and weather features.

This state-of-the-art weather instrument displays the current time and outside temperature on a ceiling or wall in a darkened room. The soft red digital projection images can be rotated to the front or back and the unit features manual focusing.

X10 Multi Room Lighting Control Kit

X10 Multi Room Lighting Control Kit

Want advanced multi-room lighting control, but just don’t know what products you need to get started? You’re not alone. That’s why we offer the Multi Room Lighting Control Kit, a complete, budget-friendly starter kit that includes everything you need to automate the lighting in two rooms (a total of 4 built-in light fixtures and 2 plug-in lamps). Once installed, you’ll not only be able to control lights in either room, from either location, you’ll also be able to fill either room with eight distinct mood-lighting scenes with the press of a button. Installation is as easy as replacing a standard light switch; only basic installation skills are needed. All the equipment communicates over the power lines already installed in your home, so you won’t need to run new wires!

Squeezebox Wireless Network Music Player

Squeezebox Wireless Network Music Player

You’ve taken the time to rip all of your CDs to your home computer, so you can do whatever you’d like with them digitally. But I’ll bet your computer speakers aren’t as big or sound as good as your regular stereo system does. The Squuezebox will let you stream your music wirelessly (or via Ethernet) from your PC to your stereo.

X10 Activehome Automation Kit

X10 Activehome Automation Kit

You’ll never have to get off the sofa to make room adjustments again with this home automation kit that gives you the power to control home theater equipment, lights and other electronic devices with one remote control! Just hook up these plug-and-play items, and in just seconds, you’ll have complete on-command or pre-programmed control of nearly any electronic device in your home!

Inventor’s gadget box alerts neighbourhoods to criminals

By Rohit Jaggi, Social Affairs Correspondent

You can usually tell when an area has suffered a spate of burglaries or car break-ins. The local pub is full of people going on about how this could not have happened in the good old days.

But instead of getting beerily misty-eyed, one entrepreneur dreamed up a gizmo he hopes will yoke people’s community spirit in a way that can cut down both fear of crime and crime itself.

Reading-based entrepreneur Peter Harris’s AlertBox is a high-tech version of Neighbourhood Watch that allows people instantly to alert those around them to the presence of shady characters or dodgy goings-on.

Proximity Access Control System

Proximity Access Control System

Install this single-door proximity access control system in your home or small office, and grant access to up to 25 users, simply and quickly. This compact standalone system consists of a wall-mounted reader/controller unit and encoded proximity tags, and works with the electric door strike or deadbolt on your door. It is easy to install and program, and requires no separate controller unit and no PC or programmer.

Shell HomeGenie Manage Your Home Away From Home

Shell HomeGenie Manage Your Home Away From Home

Shell HomeGenie lets you use virtually any web-ready computer, cell phone or PDA to control your home’s lights, small appliances and thermostat. Even use the included wireless camera to make sure things are okay when you’re not there. With Shell HomeGenie , you can stay connected to your home — anywhere, anytime!

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