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Shouldn’t We All Have Smart Homes By Now?

So it’s 2016 and we all live in Smart Homes – perfectly energy efficient residences that have learned our behavioural patterns and cater for our every need – or at least we’re supposed to be by now aren’t we? Much more likely is that you, like the vast majority of us in the “smart world”, live in normal dumb homes with a slowly increasing number of smart devices, which may or may not work together or at all. So has the technology not developed quickly or cheaply enough… or perhaps the market is just not that interested in being all that smart when they get home. “The intelligent refrigerator is here. The new Screenfridge will help you with grocery shopping and dinner ideas, keep track of what you have in your fridge, and function as a message centre for the whole family”, reads a press release for the launch of the Screenfridge, by Electrolux, in […]

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