Future Home is Here

What will the house of the future look like? Maybe like The New American
Home being built by Goehring & Morgan Construction in Orlando's Baldwin
Park in time for the National Association of Home Builders' 2005 convention,
to be held in Orlando in January. The 6,000-square-foot, $1.8 million property
will be positioned around a pool, complete with a waterfall originating above
a fireplace. But the home's main selling points will be its high-tech features.
Technology from Lutron Electronics Inc. will link a dozen televisions
scattered throughout the house with telephones, computers, lights, and security
and audio systems, which can easily be controlled via touch-screen keypads
and remotes. The computers and televisions can be used interchangeably.
Moreover, homeowners will be able to program the lights, control the
shades, monitor the front door, activate the sprinkler system, turn on the
whole-house vacuum and chlorinate the swimming pool from
anywhere in the house.