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House of the Future Costs $5.5 Million to Build

Leading Edge Technologies Enable “Innovation Home”

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 10/29/2006 | 07:43 AM ]

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The “house of the future” was a popular theme in the sixties and seventies: all the major exhibitions at that time demonstrated how people’s living space will look like in a decade. Although some innovations are yet to be seen even after thirty years, some engineers and designers have come up with a fresh revision of the “house of the future” idea.

Popular Science magazine as well as several leading designers have built a house in California equipped with the most advanced materials, cutting-edge technologies and incredible household devices available today.

“Just east of San Francisco, on a hill overlooking the picturesque Mt.Diablo, sits a $5.5-million luxury home that Popular Science helped create. Working with architecture fir Dahlin Group and Sunset Magazine, which builds “Idea Homes” annually to showcase residential trends, we filled this Innovation House with our favorite technologies – cutting-edge hardware and gadgetry that is available but which also suggest the trajectories of the tech your home will hold tomorrow,” an article by Popular Science reads.

On the web-page covering this project, Popular Science describes different aspects of the technologies used. The web-site also offers virtual tour around the house.

“You’ll find a detailed vision of that in this microsite, from robotic household help to an entirely new paradigm for home construction,” invites the web-site.