How will technophiles live in the future?
Living Tomorrow, a company that brings together top tech, consumer goods, and design firms to develop innovative products, has some answers. Living Tomorrow is building its first U.S. museum in San Jose, Calif.; the 45,000-square-foot facility, shown here in an artist's rendering, is scheduled to open in 2009.
Bathroom
Want some guilt with that shave? With the help of a floor tile that functions as a hidden scale, this mirror can display a user’s weight, height, and body mass index and can tell the user if he or she is out of healthy bounds. It can even forward the results to the doctor. Mercifully, the health-monitoring options can also be turned off. Thanks to fingerprint-recognition technology, this mirror can also identify who is on the other side of the looking glass and display personalized data such as local weather, traffic on the daily commute, appointments, and favorite videos.
Health and Fitness
In the future, no one will be pasty—at least, not if they’re bronzing under the solar tanning panels in this bathroom. The panels, which face the bath, let users expose their skin to the sun in small increments—say, for the 10 minutes they shower each morning. That way, the user gets a tan without baking in the real, more damaging sun or frying their skin in harsh tanning beds. The room also has a fitness machine (the metal alloy device in the foreground with attached cables) that folds back into the wall when not in use.
Bedroom
This futuristic bed has sensors that detect a user’s weight and shape. The mattress then adjusts accordingly, pushing up on certain body parts, to ensure the user’s body is flat—for ideal sleeping conditions. The bedroom is also outfitted with voice-recognition technology devices that respond to spoken commands and keywords. For example, uttering “shower” can turn on the water and adjust it to a user’s preset ideal temperature.
Lighting
Light color and intensity can affect mood. So in the future, users will be able to adjust home lights to any color in the rainbow. These low-energy-consumption LED fixtures are built into the wall and can be programmed to change color at specific intervals.
Living Tomorrow, a company that brings together top tech, consumer goods, and design firms to develop innovative products, has some answers. Living Tomorrow is building its first U.S. museum in San Jose, Calif.; the 45,000-square-foot facility, shown here in an artist's rendering, is scheduled to open in 2009.
Bathroom
Want some guilt with that shave? With the help of a floor tile that functions as a hidden scale, this mirror can display a user’s weight, height, and body mass index and can tell the user if he or she is out of healthy bounds. It can even forward the results to the doctor. Mercifully, the health-monitoring options can also be turned off. Thanks to fingerprint-recognition technology, this mirror can also identify who is on the other side of the looking glass and display personalized data such as local weather, traffic on the daily commute, appointments, and favorite videos.
Health and Fitness
In the future, no one will be pasty—at least, not if they’re bronzing under the solar tanning panels in this bathroom. The panels, which face the bath, let users expose their skin to the sun in small increments—say, for the 10 minutes they shower each morning. That way, the user gets a tan without baking in the real, more damaging sun or frying their skin in harsh tanning beds. The room also has a fitness machine (the metal alloy device in the foreground with attached cables) that folds back into the wall when not in use.
Bedroom
This futuristic bed has sensors that detect a user’s weight and shape. The mattress then adjusts accordingly, pushing up on certain body parts, to ensure the user’s body is flat—for ideal sleeping conditions. The bedroom is also outfitted with voice-recognition technology devices that respond to spoken commands and keywords. For example, uttering “shower” can turn on the water and adjust it to a user’s preset ideal temperature.
Lighting
Light color and intensity can affect mood. So in the future, users will be able to adjust home lights to any color in the rainbow. These low-energy-consumption LED fixtures are built into the wall and can be programmed to change color at specific intervals.
