Savant’s Interactive House Control

Found this on coolhunting.com and thought it was quite a nice sample of interaction design.  Smart home concepts and technology have been around for a while now so it’s no news that you can control most things in your house from one little tablet.  However I like the idea shown in the image below; the screen shows and image of the room you’re in and you simply touch elements on the image e.g. a light to turn it on and off.  And of course it goes without saying that there is the obligatory iPhone app to go with it, so you can remotely control your home whilst away on vacation.

My one little niggling thought with these concepts though is that currently this sort of technology integration is only really available if you’re pretty wealthy due to it’s excessive cost.  So by the time this sort of thing becomes accessible to the vox pop, new and probably cheaper technology will be available – I predict that in time you won’t need a screen to access the technology, it will all be motion/gesture detection.