A tour of the HP Smart Home at the Cupertino Campus

[0nthewater]

How lame is this.... nothing new here. Not even voice controlled. With large pockets like HP one would think they could put something together impressive rather than this lameOOOOO.

Typical video made by suits rather than geeks.

[4ntigo]

hp sucks!!

[vacdk]

Well, this is not a HP invention.. :(

The real invention here is life|ware, they just have there HP connected to it.

[A4moondoggy]

i wonder if they can turn off the annoying system sounds lol

[googlegogo]

first i was excited, but after seeing what they they actually did, im dissapointed.

so they glued a netbook to the wall next to the entrance door, they have a tablet pc in the living room (OMG how futuristic!) and a desktop pc in... the kitchen???

ive never seen such a creative idea executed so poorly and unimaginatively...

HP did this to prove they have a vision, but they did the exact opposite for me...

[Geekman257]

These are great, but they are expensive as!

[audax5435]

i bet they dont even know one song by dr. dre..

[audax5435]

the game they were playing with the laptop was really laggy..

[juusov2]

I watched just half of this, but I still managed to find 4 reasons why this house sucks:

1. All those devices work really slowly.

2. Glass table in front of the eyefinity setup reflects everything in the game.

3. Too many monitors and all of them have glossy surface.

4. You cannot control doors, bed, drapes, cooling, etc. remotely.

[KreKeriS911]

Way too much monitors.

[igeekone]

I like that it's a realistic vision and not some extreme concept home. But I would love to see that too. I envision hp using the upcoming Kinect for Windows for voice and gesture commands.

[HPSmartHome]

@igeekone - You're absolutely right. I'm just a couple weeks away from integrating the Kinect and using it to control the home automation - including, lights, shades, tempature, etc

[aisbaa]

ugly

[djswissdean]

Semi Tony Stark House.

[Googlecow456]

you should have asked them whats up with voodoodna and if they are making a return o.o?

[prankmypants]

ok so how to i activate the voice only commands given i dont want to touch the screen? oh whats that i gotta touch the screen and filter through some menus and enable it and disable it when done...... lol

[SaMoVArr]

Windows-based >.<

[Snake1979xfire]

Damn man its awesome... but uhmm whos going to pay the bill at the end of the year with all those screens and the whole server.

[GloomFate]

@Snake1979xfire You could build your own a lot cheaper using some cool open source software and non-hp hardware, although you will have to do some basic scripting and some electronics your self. The lights are pretty easy to do.

I would start with a mythtv server and build a few client machines that connect to every TV in the house and then with some basic scripts make do cool things like turn on/off lights and similar things this hp smart home can do.

[militant123]

i have actually got the hp e station premium printer the one down from this i well its fantastic! only thing is it keep goin to standby but but then when it wakes u it doesnt connect!