The Connected Home - are we there yet?
The connected home is coming. Every year we hear about new technology on the verge of changing how we toast bread, watch television, or listen to music by the pool. The connected home promises to synchronize our digital lifestyle, connecting the broadband connected digital hubs of our home life into any piece of home electronics with a computer chip and networking gear.
This month's Consumer Electronics Show and Macworld conferences introduced the world (yet again) to new hardware and software that will redefine our digital home. Or will it? What do we want from our home media center? Should our toaster, coffee maker, and alarm clock be network aware, coordinating our morning routines? What are the current services and devices with the most promise, taking advantage of assets on the local network as well as in the cloud?
In this week's PodSession Om and I cut through the marketing hype and extended promises of the connected home, presenting our current realities and the most promising future services. This week's PodSession, Connected Home, is 20 minutes in length, a 10 MB download.