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Do we really want our homes to be more intelligent than we are? At the recent Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies in Tokyo, mobile phone companies presented new technologies aimed at making our homes more user friendly.
Now, if you are one of the millions who don't use their videos to record because they can't work out how to do it, the idea of being able to operate your central heating from the keypad of your mobile might be shocking.
1__Homes of the future will have doors that can be opened by remote control, lights that can be activated from your holiday hotel, fridges that will do their own grocery shopping, washing machines, modified so that they can call up the engineer if they need servicing, and toilet seats that can be warmed in advance.
I have recently paid a visit to the Orange House of the Future.
2__ But it turned out to be a completely false impression. To begin with, the front door didn't have a lock: a webcam did the job of the old videophone, and the door was activated by computer software rather than a key. And, once inside, this house had a mind of its own. Families had been living in tile house for short periods, allowing the scientists to watch them, like Big Brother style.
3__ In place instead of family snapshots in frames, there were virtual pictures on the wall, which can receive images downloaded by email, or sent from your friends' and family's mobile phones.
The main selling point of the house of the not-so-distant future is that you can control your home when you're not there.
4 ___You can let the delivery man in when there's nobody at home, and you can run a bath when you're just leaving the office. You can even keep an eye on the nanny while you're out at a dinner party.
The problem is, the whole point of going out is so that you can close the door and leave it all behind.
5__ I'm not sure if I want my home to be on call twenty-four hours a day, like an expectant puppy waiting to play. And no, I don't know how to operate my video recorder either.
A. From the outside, it looked inviting and safely suburban, with its mock Victorian style, and wide driveway.
B. It is done with the use of your mobile phone, and the range of options is wide.
C. But that is exactly what the technology guys are preparing for us.
D. I need this and I believe everybody else does as well, to avoid your home becoming unbearable.
E. And that's exactly what will make our mobile phones easier to operate.
F. Each member had an internet `information bank', where all vital information such as favourite TV programmes, music and recipes was kept.
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