Wi-Fi Helps Appliances Think for Themselves

This is a column about Smart Homes. No, please — don’t turn the page. I can understand the urge to skip this subject. Smart homes, also known as connected homes, networked homes and home automation, are the cold fusion of domestic technology: always promised, never delivered.



via Pocket http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/technology/personaltech/wi-fi-and-smartphones-make-homes-a-little-smarter.html