smart homes

On the topic of "smart" rooms, smart homes seem to be the fashion these days thanks to improving wireless, broadband and demand for digital entertainment.
Here are links to some articles from the Far Eastern Economic Review on smart homes in the Asia-Pacific region.

• Home Automation
  
• Wired-Home Wish-List
  
• How to (Almost) Go Wireless At Home
  
• Robotic Vacuum Cleaner
  
• The joys of automation
  

On the top of my shopping cart this summer is a bluetooth dongle and some X10 receivers and transmitters. A short post on what X10 is and how it works and will fit into my smart room (which is now a smart home) project will follow later.