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Reading: The following content represents the magazine's vision of the future of the house, including all aspects of everything from robotic maids to new construction methods. If you want to know what the future housing should look like, please continue to look backwards.
In the east of San Francisco, a luxury home valued at 5.5 million U.S. dollars is located on a hill opposite the picturesque Devil Hills. This luxury home was designed by Sunset magazine and completed by the Dahlin Group Construction Company. “Sunset†magazine builds an “Ideal House†every year according to what they think is the residential development trend. The editors equipped the house with the most sophisticated hardware and electronic products available today - these hardware and products represent, to a large extent, the direction of future home technology.
New materials make the environment more comfortable
With a touch, the “smart†surface of the house can be changed as you wish.
Scenery change every day
Do not like the scenery outside the window? It does not matter, change it. The walls of the future can easily change the position of the windows. The development of OLED technology will not only enable us to create thin paper-like televisions and computer screens in the future, but also create walls that can be freely changed in position and size of windows. A large-area OLED screen is placed on the exterior wall of the house. By simply dragging by hand, the area and position of the light-transmitting portion can be changed at will, that is, the position and size of the window can be changed. The non-windows area not only displays the colors the resident prefers but also displays information, images and works of art. Expected time of realization: 2025
All surfaces do not have to rub
Thanks to the emergence of new materials that can kill bacteria and automatically remove dirt, all the surfaces in the house can always be kept clean. The “self-cleaning†glass here is the use of the energy of ultraviolet light in the sunlight to activate the titanium dioxide nanoparticles to decompose the organic molecules in the pollutants. Titanium dioxide is a photosensitive material that, when exposed to photons, reacts with air and water vapor to accelerate the decomposition of organic matter. And titanium dioxide is a kind of hydrophilic material, titanium dioxide coating will allow water to evenly cover the surface, forming a "water film", the granular decomposition products washed away. But to move this technology into bathrooms and kitchens where there is no sunlight or where the sun shines for a short time, it is necessary to solve the problem that this material can only function when exposed to ultraviolet light in the sun. Researchers are now trying to change the structure of titanium dioxide particles so that they can react under normal visible light irradiation. If it can become a reality, then as long as there is a light bulb, we can say goodbye to the cleaning agent. Expected time of realization: 2010
Change color as you like
Color particles can change color depending on changes in electrical, acoustic, and optical signals. Forget the pain of wasting a lot of time in the paint shop due to the difficulty in choosing the right color, the future walls will be able to change colors according to your feelings (paints that change color with temperature are now a reality). The tiny particles of red, green, and blue are placed in the wall, and each particle responds quickly to changes in weak current pulses, flash, and audio. So you can change the color of the walls to bright yellow in the afternoon and keep yourself happy. At night, it turns pink to make romance. Of course, the same technology can also be applied to clothing so that we can quickly change the color of the clothes. Expected time of realization: 2020
Smart devices make cooking easier
Sensors, robots, and RFID tags can make cumbersome kitchen work history.
The refrigerator can also be a chef
Future kitchen appliances will not only have intelligence, but will also form a whole, making shopping and cooking easier. In a networked home, all kitchen appliances will work together to form a coordinated food preparation system. By scanning RFID tags on food, refrigerators and cabinets know what's inside. Based on the stored raw materials, the display on the refrigerator will show the recommended recipes and tell you by video how to do it. This system even automatically sets the shelf life and temperature of the food and automatically orders when the food you like to eat is gone. Now, these technologies are already in the demonstration and verification stage. Manufacturers are waiting for the popularity of RFID technology to develop these advanced intelligent kitchen appliances for mainstream customers. Of course, their prices will be slightly more expensive. Expected time of realization: 2015
Robots help you with housework
As long as you give a command, they can do a variety of tasks - from cleaning the room to taking a beer. With the application of some technologies originally used in the military and aerospace fields, home robots can not only help us do those trivial housework tasks, but also carry out the task of anti-theft (you can think of them as Roomba's iRobot robot vacuum cleaners and military platoons. A combination of explosive robots). Our house will use an RFID tag to “tell†the robots about the processing of various things and where they are placed. Electronic signs in the aisles can help the robots identify where to pass. Once the robot's balance and walking problems are solved, robots that walk on two legs or four legs will quickly become popular (our building structure is designed primarily for legged creatures such as humans and pets. In this environment, Leg-walking robots will be more adaptable, but WowWee designed a wheeled robot that uses the same gyroscopic stabilization system as the Segway scooter, which will be available in 2008.) Another kind of robot technology - house building - will also become a reality. By using three-dimensional printing technology, robots will be able to create everything from rice bowls to houses. Expected time of realization: 2016
Never lose the key
Just make a name and you can find any item in the room. With the decrease in size and price, RFID tags will quickly become popular and appear on every product we purchase. With these tags, our payment work when shopping in supermarkets and shopping malls will be completed automatically: the scanner at the exit will scan all the goods in the shopping cart at once, and the credit card in our pocket will automatically send decoding information to complete the payment. And with these tags and sensor systems, we will no longer have to worry about finding something at home, just "ask" where the things we are looking for are on the house. If something is about to run out—whether it's TOILET paper or flour—the cabinets that store the items will prompt us. Expected time of realization: 2012
Automatic system makes life easier
The bedroom will know where you are, what you need and how you feel.
Can do physical examination at home
The sensor will monitor our health status and automatically contact the family doctor. This is good news for skeptics: In the future, our family will have various digital eyes monitoring our various physiological indicators at any time, from heart rate, blood pressure, to internal examination at the cellular level. The clothes with built-in body temperature and blood pressure sensors will soon enter the market. The data measured by these sensors will be wirelessly connected to the computers in our homes and transmitted to family doctors via the Internet. In the near future, household equipment that can analyze saliva, urine, and blood to find early signs of diabetes or cancer will soon be available. Eventually, implanting nanometer-scale sensors under the skin will automatically detect the signs of cancer, diabetes and other diseases. Expected time of realization: 2010 to 2020
Automatic systems are cheaper
The new standard will greatly reduce the price of the automatic system and will make the communication smoother. In today's home, various automated systems have brought great convenience to us. Life without an automatic system is almost impossible to imagine. Without an automatic system, we had to get up and shut down the air conditioning power in the middle of the night and had to go to the door to open the door for pets. Today, various automatic devices control us from home to various equipment in the home from the air conditioning to the security system, but they all require the use of expensive automatic sensors. Now, three competing standards—Z-Wave, ZigBee, and Insteon—are expected to bring us a cheaper monitoring and control system. Components within the system can communicate smoothly, even if there are obstacles between the receiver and the transmitter. Things exist. Expected time of realization: 2008
Biometric security
Biometrics make it difficult for speculators to fish. Want to know that the guy carrying the toolkit standing in front of the doorbell is actually a telephone company sent to repair the cable? Just let him be examined before the biometric scanner in the home security system (retina scanning, fingerprint recognition, facial recognition, etc.). With the continuous improvement of reliability, safety systems relying on biometrics technology will truly move toward a practical stage. When you need to leave for a short time and you want to let the neighbor help you to look after the kitten, you don't need to give him a house key. Just upload his biometric data and the security system will recognize him when he visits. Allow him to enter. Expected time of realization: 2015
The house itself sets the environment
Your house will know which room you are in and make adjustments to the environment of each room. In the future house, you may feel that your eyes are watching you wherever you go. In fact, this is indeed the case. Through the sensors distributed in each room, the house will accurately "know" which room the owner is in. First of all, the house will adjust the temperature, light and other parameters of each room accordingly (dimmer the room light of nobody. If you are sweating, you will open the air conditioner). Second, it can also inspire various reminders around you. According to your schedule (the sensor is automatically obtained from your handheld device), for example, the time to go to kindergarten to pick up the child, the reminder system will flash a flashing message on the wall in front of you. If you forget to take medicine, the house not only reminds you but also informs your family about the situation. Expected time of realization: 2015
The entertainment world is more exciting There is no longer any boundary between virtual and real world.
Unlimited TV channels
You can transfer unlimited programs from your computer to your TV. The competition for television viewership is now fierce, and more and more people are shifting from traditional television sets to online video sites such as YouTube.com. In the future, Internet-based television programming (IPTV) will become the mainstream, and countless programs will be available for us to choose. Although various technologies required for IPTV have not yet been popularized, they have already existed, such as broadband networks, high-speed home connections, digital televisions, and cheap access devices that all people can afford. Expected time of realization: 2010
Wireless networks are everywhere
Wireless connection to the server through various handheld devices can accomplish all the tasks required. The main task of our computer today is to save software and files and process them. But with the popularity of Wi-Fi, WiMAX and other wireless network technologies in the future, wireless networks will be everywhere and the role of computers will change. Our software and files will be saved and backed up to the web server, so how to connect to the server is the key to the problem. With a variety of portable handheld devices and public terminals, you can access your web server anywhere, and home computers will become the past. Expected time of realization: 2013
The game does not need a joystick
The traditional gamepad will bid farewell to the historical stage. Nintendo's new Wii game console can already use the built-in accelerometer to judge the movement of the player's arm and control the movement of the character in the game. In the future, game consoles will be able to respond to movements in various parts of the player's body and allow you to chat with other players in real time. Expected time of realization: 2012
Green equipment is more energy efficient
The new energy system allows us to drastically reduce electricity consumption and even make energy self-sufficient.
Less electricity for lighting
LED lighting technology will bring more bright light and less energy consumption. As the brightness continues to increase, the role of LEDs (light emitting diodes) has not only been limited to the radio's indicator light, they began to enter the home lighting system. The lifetime of ordinary incandescent lamps is only 1000 hours, while the life of LEDs is as high as 50,000 hours, and the number of computers consumed is much less. According to research conducted by the Sandia National Laboratory in the United States, if the white-light diode system can be popularized, the consumption of lighting electricity in the world will be reduced by 50%. The main obstacle affecting the popularity of white-light diode systems is its brightness and price: currently, the brightness of white-light diodes is insufficient to illuminate the entire house, and its price is about 10 times that of incandescent bulbs. Expected time of realization: 2020
Every family is a power station
Various improved new energy technologies will free us from our dependence on the power grid. There are various advanced home energy manufacturing systems available for us to choose: ultra-efficient small solar cells, domestic wind turbines, clean natural gas stations provide us with heat and electricity, and hydrogen fuel cell devices (left) in addition to meeting daily energy consumption In addition, it will provide energy to the car. With the rising price of fossil fuels, home energy systems will become more and more popular. Expected time of realization: 2016
Laundry is clean and saves water. You can wash your clothes with very little water. The intelligent laundry system precisely controls the amount of water and drying time according to the amount of clothing and the degree of dirtyness, minimizing the waste of water and energy. After washing your clothes, you will be automatically sent a text message. Expected time of realization: 2010
Building more convenient
The standardization system brought about a revolution in the construction industry. Prefabricated walls that have been internally laid with wires and pipes make the building faster, cheaper, and less building debris. Expected time of realization: 2020.
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