Finally. This smart printer from HP has a small foot print and its stylish aesthetics mean you don’t need to stash it somewhere far, far away from your desk. And it has beautiful linen covers to match a variety of styles. Get it on Amazon. Recommended Reading: 50 Insanely Useful Smart Home Products To Make . . .
Category: Technology At Home
Gadgets, gizmos and technology for your home.
Product Of The Week: An Interactive Owl Shaped Security Camera
Ok, we are calling it. This is the cutest security camera on the planet. Static images does not do this beautiful product justice. Do check out the video: Get in on Amazon. Recommended Reading: 50 Insanely Useful Smart Home Products To Make Your Life Easier
Product Of The Week: A Beautiful Glass Speaker
Beautiful speakers are a rare thing. Beautiful speakers that sound good are even rarer. This is where we think Sony’s glass speakers are a class apart. Get it on Amazon. Recommended reading: 30 Beautiful Speakers That Don’t Compromise Your Room’s Aesthetics
Cool Product Alert: A Smart Night Stand
Alright, what do you call a modern minimalist night stand that has a built in mobile controlled audio system, smart locking cabinet, wireless phone charger, motion activated night light and a sunrise alarm? Answer: The Curvilux Smart Nightstand. Get it on Amazon.
Cool Product Alert: Furniture & Accessories With Wireless Phone Charging
In the war against wires, wireless phone chargers have always been game chargers. Even though you still need these chargers to be plugged into power sockets, having the ability to keep your phone untethered brings in real advantages in terms of convenience. However, the benefits of wireless charging become truly significant only when these chargers . . .
A Super Space Saving Solution for Small Apartments
While many people might dream of making their home in an expansive mansion or countryside estate, that’s simply not the reality for most people, particularly those that choose to live in cities. Urban life comes with many advantages — cultural, culinary, creative — but it often does not come with a lot of space. Instead . . .
Transformative YO! Home: Big Design in a Small Space
Using technologies that are usually relegated to car design and super-yachts, YO! Home’s founder, Simon Woodroffe created a modern, forward-thinking alternative to the small urban apartment. At the touch of a button or the pull of a handle, twelve moving parts transform the tiny apartment into a luxurious living space with all the amenities of . . .
Audio Video Junkie Nirvana: A Great Home Entertainment Setup
With so much technology to pack into our homes these days, we’re always looking for examples that manage to house their gadgets in good balance-avoiding overbearing towers of black boxes and a spaghetti junction of wires. This home, belonging to Blu Ray community user TheForce, has an utterly enviable collection of big boys toys that . . .
Smart Homes: Are We There Yet?
Update: We are certainly there now. (Case in point: 50 Insanely Useful Smart Home Products You Can Buy Right Now) Those who have played Xbox Kinect will have experienced a little of what it’s like to live in a digitally submersive world like that featured in the movie Minority Report, where a wave of your . . .
Scientists Create A True Magic Mirror
If you had any doubts regarding the direction in which technology is headed, you can lay that to rest. Whether you like it or not, it is going to creep into every corner of your home at one point of time. And yes, this would include your bathroom. Researchers at New York Times Lab have . . .
A Massive Home Entertainment Setup
Okay here is a guy who is serious about his home entertainment system. Serious enough to mock it up using a sketch up program… Recommended Reading: 50 Insanely Useful Smart Home Products You Can Buy Right Now
7 Videos That Envision How Things Could Be In The Future
We at Home-Designing are big fans of what the future could be! We love looking at those bold and daring stuff innovators think up today which they hope to take mainstream tomorrow. Here are 7 such videos that give us a taste of what devices and experiences could be like in the near future. (If . . .
How you will read magazines and newspapers in the future
We have a little section at HD where we look at technology products that could potentially change our lifestyle. Through this home tech section, we peek at things that fascinate us in the gadget world and there is a particular medium that is catching our attention quite a lot these days: Tablets. The growth of . . .
Awesome Interactive Wall
When technology meets office design to create an eye catching workplace viewable from blocks away, we can’t help but be tinkled pink at the thought. The events agency Büro Hirzberger hired one of the best techie talents, Austrian design agency Strukt Design Studio to create a digitally enhanced wall that would capture the essence of . . .
Scandinavian Living Room Entertainment Setups
Remember that swedish home we featured a couple of days back at HD? It seems there is plenty more from where that came from. Minhembio is a Swedish forum where lots of tech savvy design enthusiasts post their living room setups. Most of them are loaded with audio video entertainment units and they give us . . .
Iron Man’s House
The magic of movie making is alive and well, and clearly on display in the blockbuster Iron Man sequel. While Tony Stark’s alter-ego Iron Man suit is a stunning work of effects, what is even cooler is Iron Man’s house. The house doesn’t really exist, and is actually a very clever use of CG. The . . .
Futuristic Interiors of a Bank in Madrid, Spain
YDreams is a company focusing on developing full scale interactive environments combining technology,design and augmented reality. We came across their work recently and have really been impressed with the way they tackled their latest challenge which was to develop a visitor’s center for the Spanish bank Ciudad Grupo Santander. The brief given to them was . . .
The Futuristic Car of A.D. 2040
It is not usual for a home design blog to feature an automobile. But I guess it depends on what your definition of an automobile really is. Ever wondered about a day when your entire home is nothing but an evolved version of the ‘automobile’ itself? Sure, we have all seen self driving cars with . . .
Amazing 3D Immersion Technology!
It seems like some of the futuristic movie environments, that we showed you yesterday might become reality sooner than we thought. Check out EON Reality‘s immersive 3D visualization technology(video shown below) that is used by architecture firm WATG to provide clients a walkthrough experience like no other. Stereoscopic images are projected onto 3 white walls . . .
Design of Techno Environments in Movies
Okay, this post is going to be a bit different from what we usually cover at Home-Designing. But have you ever wondered who designs those futuristic looking techno environments that you see in sci-fi flicks like Minority Report, Star Trek and the like? Answer: Companies like OOOii. This Hollywood based company focuses on creating interactive . . .
Tomorrow’s Homes
We have always been curious about the future. This perpetual curiousity about seeing tomorrow’s world has driven people and companies to develop montages that depict how they visualize the future. Microsoft is one such company that has boldly come forward with their vision. Take a look at this video where they show you a contemporary . . .