A tour of the HP Smart Home at the Cupertino Campus

http://www.tweaktown.com After the craziness that was CES in Las Vegas earlier this month, I headed on up north west to San Francisco where I had the chance to meet up with several big players in the tech industry. One of them was HP who invited me to their Cupertino campus to take a video tour of their impressive Smart Home.

What is the Smart Home? It's literally a house that sits in one of the parking lots and is used as a very effective way to showcase the latest and greatest products to come from HP. It was first setup and displayed several years ago at CES in Las Vegas as a means to show customers and media a true to life implementation of connected HP technologies inside the home. The decision was made to send the house back to HP's Cupertino campus in California and set it up permanently. Distributed by Tubemogul.

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[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!

[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

[audax5435]

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

[audax5435]

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

[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.