The Era of Smart Home with Mobile is Coming!

Before leaving work, Steve Lee likes to use his cellphone to turn on the heating or air condition system at home.So by the time he gets through traffic into his front door,the tempreture inside home is perfect...

Now wait till you see what a so-called smart home can do inside.

"And you can now view cameras,you can control lights."

Lee works for a company called Smarthome.com, testing and living with many of his company's home automation gadgets, like this multi-function touch screen that controls devices around the house and even connects to Internet traffic cameras to check the commute.

"I have cameras, that follow all the way down the freeway to work."

Curious what's going on at home when you are away? No problem,install some wireless cameras and controllers and from any computer in the world with an Internet connection.

"You can check on the house, I can look at the tempreture. If I want to turn lights on ahead that time, I can."

We sat in Steve's California kitchen and with the right password, turned on the kitchen counter lights at his boss's house in Wisconsin.Steve did have permission to log on.

"If you do know the password and you want to play trick on your wife or vice versa? You could turn lights on and off remotely."

Best part,this new technology, which can automatically turn on water sprinklers when humidity is low, or turn off a pool pump when not in use，is no longer expensive. Several hundred bucks for a basic system and not hard to install.

"A lot of times the remote controll of lights and other devices could be achieved by simply changing off the switch."

Sure the convenience is nice but many like the security advantages like making sure kids are safe with the help of camera monitors and bedside alerts.

"To have notification that maybe one of your children woke up in the middle of the night, turned the light switch on in a remote control way."

What a smart home can't do is get you a snack. So you'd better leave the couch for that.

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Black and White, Dance between Modern and Classical I – Living Room

Although the world of colors is gorgeous and varied, but simple black and white, is been recognized as a "classic color match" publically. In a variety of new product launches of varied fashion brands, you will the see the cool black and assuming white style always. Black and white are colors full of spirit, they are colors that never outdated.

Although the black and white are entirely different, each has their own way, but as long as mastered a right proportion between the two, they will blending well too, and create a harmonious, clean home space, and bring senses no matter modern or classical easily.



Chapter I - Living Room

When using black and white to decorate your room, you should arrange a right proportion between the two "extreme" colors careful. Black and white, who is the leading actor in the end?

If you are enough special as well as enough alternative, you can make black to dominate the market, and let the living room become the world of black: black sofa, black desk/table, black seats, black ceiling and black backdrops, and let black take the way to the end. Under the shadow of such a mysterious atmosphere, white may turn into embellishments naturally, for example, white floor lamp, white tea set, white vases, thus to create an unique and fantasy shaped space.



However, if you can not endure repressions taken birth from a mass of dark, you’d better to take the fresh and clean white as the main tone, for example, white walls, white floors, matched with black sofa, transparent glass windows encircled by black frames, white curtains dotted with black dots, so simple white will become lively and dynamic.



Concise style furniture with smooth lines matched with simple, bright, clean and spacious bedroom is forever an ideal choice, which will bring you clear, pure, clean and solemn feelings.

While those blue cushions, hemp yellow carpet, red flowers, these ornaments will take more rich layers to the whole space, as simple in overall and exquisite in small areas, these details will show the exquisite and delicate taste of living of the owner casually.

(not finished to be continue...)

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