It had been my Gripe that many of our home appliances are a collection of redundant components not fully utilizing their potential. If we could define any display unit as just display unit, any audio unit as a player or receiver of audio etc, we could have any source of information, by just having a mediator external to the systems translating it for the right target consumer, could send or receive information across devices. My concern started from the initial requirement to show my caller ID on my TV, without having to depend on the cable/TV provider. Ideally, all I would need is a device connected up on the point before the TV input, some place on my receiver or so, to translate the caller ID information coming from my phone on bluetooth connection. My car head unit can do this, why can't my TV do the same?
(Well there is the fact that the car head unit switches the display completely to the bluetooth screen, but with PiP etc availabe with TVs, it must be fairly simple for them to allow this. Another option they could have opened up is TeleText which can be overlayed on the screen. If only I can send any text to a component in the TV which can do this.)
Taking it to next level, it can even allow me to take the call right on my home theater system if I have a mic connected up, pausing the program running on the TV at the moment until I complete the call and resume from there. Same with any security event any place at home.
LG is trying out a networking of its devices chatting up to you taking English like commands like Siri does. Check the link. Its an interesting development when your House comes up alive and active to tell you what was going on during the day or act as a home secretory, asking you for a go ahead to pay your bills and handle your laundry!It can also tell you when you are running too much of a bill in spite of its best effort switching off things which can be. When it starts receiving feeds from your vehicle, it can take care of managing a bit more than that! I think time is ripe for some standards are defined in this area so that different brands will still be able to work easily in this colony of devices.
Now with the internet of things brewing up, Soon, I will be able to have that. The only question remains, with all this extra time, what do a common individual do? What will it mean to him to take away all those small chores he used to do by hand?
(Well there is the fact that the car head unit switches the display completely to the bluetooth screen, but with PiP etc availabe with TVs, it must be fairly simple for them to allow this. Another option they could have opened up is TeleText which can be overlayed on the screen. If only I can send any text to a component in the TV which can do this.)
Taking it to next level, it can even allow me to take the call right on my home theater system if I have a mic connected up, pausing the program running on the TV at the moment until I complete the call and resume from there. Same with any security event any place at home.
LG is trying out a networking of its devices chatting up to you taking English like commands like Siri does. Check the link. Its an interesting development when your House comes up alive and active to tell you what was going on during the day or act as a home secretory, asking you for a go ahead to pay your bills and handle your laundry!It can also tell you when you are running too much of a bill in spite of its best effort switching off things which can be. When it starts receiving feeds from your vehicle, it can take care of managing a bit more than that! I think time is ripe for some standards are defined in this area so that different brands will still be able to work easily in this colony of devices.
Now with the internet of things brewing up, Soon, I will be able to have that. The only question remains, with all this extra time, what do a common individual do? What will it mean to him to take away all those small chores he used to do by hand?
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