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Home Toys
April 2004
Paul Custodio |
Affordable Home Automation Solutions The following three examples are simple home solutions that can be implemented in nearly any home on nearly any budget, using equipment available from X10.com.   |
Home Toys
February 2003
Bob Hetherington |
Omni LT Security and Home Automation System In addition to its security functions, this is a full-blown home automation controller that can make your life a lot easier and more convenient. It will control your powerline lighting and appliance components, thermostats, hard wired devices and more. |
PC Magazine
November 2, 2004
Troy Dreier |
Your Automated Home Control your household appliances from a PC, over the Web, or via remote. We review four starter packages. |
Home Toys
December 2002
David Steele |
Driveway And Entry Annunciators For Home Automation Driveway and entry annunciators have been around for many years. To add them to your home automation and security system can add a whole new meaning to convenience. They can provide you not only with being alerted when a visitor approaches, but also turn on lights for safety and convenience. |
Home Toys
June 2002
Ant Skelton |
Marmitek AWM2 Micro-Module The Marmitek AWM2 micro-module is the first to market of the new breed of modules supporting ACT's A10 (Advanced X10) protocol. The AWM2 has two switch inputs: the first controls the built-in appliance module, and the second is transmitted as X10 on the mains wiring. |
PC Magazine
March 2, 2004
Bill Howard |
Master of the House Home automation technology is fun and affordable. Here's how to get started. |
Home Toys
February 2003
Craig Chadwick |
X10 Debugging Tips If you use X10, you will inevitably experience some of the problems described here. Hopefully this information will help you resolve the problem as quickly and painlessly as possible. |
Home Toys
June 2004 |
UPB Powerline Carrier Home Control Technology Web Mountain Technologies (WMT) is one of a new breed of manufacturers in the Home Technology market that is building products based upon TCP/IP networking. |
Home Toys
February 2005
Thanh Nguyen |
What is the LCN Installation Bus? The installation bus is a new way to electrically wire buildings that is more cost effective and offers many new functionalities over the conventional method. The LCN installation bus distinguishes itself through performance and cost effectiveness compared to the rest. |
PC Magazine
August 17, 2004
Bill Howard |
Geek-Free Home Automation One of life's ironies is that those of us who can dim the living-room lights and switch the stereo to soft jazz at the press of a single button are probably the geeks who can't get a date and take advantage of the romantic atmosphere. |
Home Toys
June 2005 |
X10 Irrigation Control Spring is here and we have a home automation idea we'd like to spring on you: X10 Irrigation Control with the WGL Rain8 Irrigation Controller. |
Home Toys
October 2003
Kevin Moss |
The Future of Home Automation on the PC This article discusses home automation, what's available for the PC today, what we can do and what we can't. |
PC Magazine
January 18, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Shutterbugs in the Dark Korean Company Planet82 demonstrated its eye-popping SMPD (Single Module Photo Detector) image sensor that lets cameras take full-color photos or video in the dark without a flash. |
Home Toys
December 2003 |
Personal Notification System Keeps Tabs on the Naughty and Nice Broadcast an audio message throughout the house when a sensor is tripped. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2008
Courtney E. Howard |
The Joule-Thief Harvests Vibration Energy to Power Devices in the Field Engineers at AdaptivEnergy have developed and unveiled an innovative power technology that harvests and converts energy from vibration into usable electricity. |
PC Magazine
October 5, 2004 |
Flash Most digital cameras have at least four different flash modes. Here are some common options. |
Home Toys
December 2002
Roger Stamm |
Lighting Your Way to a More Secure, More Beautiful Home The features and advantages of modern lighting control systems are truly incredible. Technological advancements have given us comprehensive and affordable home lighting controls that can do things Thomas Edison would have never dreamed were possible. |
Home Toys
June 2005
James Russo |
Home Automation From the Leader in Home Tech If you are in the market for a cheap and easy to use home automation kit, check out the Radio Shack kit. If nothing else, the kit can be a starting place for an end user till he or she expands to more sophisticated kits like X10. |
Home Toys
April 2006 |
Programmable Logic Controller -- Hardware The PLC is a versatile product that has many hardware options to accommodate the large number of different electrical interfaces out there. The PLC is modular in design so that one can mix and match the input/output (I/O) hardware requirements to meet the needs of the project. |
PC Magazine
October 5, 2004
Bill Howard |
Home Automation that Works Zensys Z-Wave, a 908.4-MHz, UPnP-compliant mesh-networking protocol, is a home automation system that really works. |
Home Toys
June 2003 |
Webcomodore: the Ultimate Energy Cost Buster Web services are not only used for entertainment or information technology but also for building/home automation or for energy management. Shovon's Internet-ready Webcomodore product line utilizes the power of the Internet to help users to administer energy spending. |
Search Engine Watch
October 1, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
FAST Adds Flash Support, Provides Results To HotBot Europe FAST has added the ability to search for text within Macromedia Flash files via its AllTheWeb.com site, and the search engine has also taken over providing results to HotBot in Europe. |
Home Toys
April 2002
Bob Hetherington |
Leviton Decora Home Controls Scene-Capable Dimming Wall Switch Receivers Well, it's time to change over the house from those old ivory X10 pushbuttons to something a little more contemporary with higher quality and reliability. We decided on Leviton's newest line of wall switches. |
InternetNews
July 21, 2009 |
Adobe Opens Up Flash Framework No, Flash is not open source, but a new framework surrounding it is. |
Home Toys
October 2004 |
30 year anniversary: Dave Rye of X10 X10 is regarded as the De Facto standard for Home Automation. |
Home Toys
October 2004
Tom Grounds |
Home Theater Project: Media Room Finding the right place for everything in your home theater system. |
Home Toys
June 2003
Don Marquardt |
"JEANNIE": The House that Listens Home Automation can be both very useful and affordable to even the modest home owner. You can start small and add functions as you get time and money. But if you're building your home, you can go all-out with the necessary equipment for networking and automation relatively inexpensively. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2008 |
Elma Offers 1U Microbox as an Integrated Solution The 19-inch rackmount MicroBox features as many as 10 modules (mid-size, single width), which includes 6 AMCs, a Power Module (PM), and a J-TAG Switch Module (JSM) from MicroBlade, and 1 MicroTCA Carrier Hub (MCH). |
PC Magazine
January 20, 2004
Richard V. Dragan |
Flash Remoting Macromedia's new technology lets browser-based applications easily interact with servers running Java, Microsoft .NET, or Web services. |
Home Toys
February 2003
Jimmy Busby |
Hardwired Lighting Control: Now Affordable and Reliable Because of the complexity and the high cost, lighting control and whole house integration has only been available to a fortunate few. By keeping devices simple and programming easy, automation can become something that everyone can use. |
Home Toys
February 2004 |
The 'Whole Home Systems' Vision Part 1 - An illustration... Whole Home Systems are technologies that are integrated throughout the home to work together seamlessly and easily for your benefit. |
BusinessWeek
June 24, 2010
Tom McNichol |
Adobe Battles the Flash-Bashing Even with Steve Jobs sour on the Web software and not letting it into iPhones and iPads, Adobe is getting it in as many smartphones as possible. |
Home Toys
December 2003
Barry V. Gordon |
Home Automation at the Gordon Residence My home control system interfaces key subsystems that provide specific control over different devices and functions around the house: Security System, HVAC Thermostats, Touchscreens, Lighting, Text to speech, a Whole House Music System, and Voice recognition. |
Macworld
May 7, 2007
David Karlins |
Flash CS3 Professional Remarkable integration with Adobe's CS3 family and powerful design tools for mobile devices. |
InternetNews
October 5, 2009 |
Adobe's Flash 10.1 Goes Mobile (Minus iPhone) Adobe's next version of Flash supports Windows Mobile, Google's Android, Palm's webOS and RIM' BlackBerry platforms. Missing from the list: Apple's iPhone. |
This Old House
Sal Vaglica |
Holiday-Lighting Know-How For a spectacular display that's merry and bright -- and doesn't blow a fuse -- follow these five tips from lighting pros |
CIO
June 1, 2002
Christopher Lindquist |
See It All Internet-enabled cameras with motion sensors can be used to monitor your home. New models are reaching lower price points. |
